Severe migraines after period while on The Pill?

Q Answered:
Yes, the doctor was completely wrong. The problem is that migraines are the purview of neurologists, and gynecologists no nothing about the brain. Which is messed up, because your migraines are hormonal, and gynecologists SHOULD know about hormones! Anyway, what's going on is that migraines are caused when estrogen drops significantly (there are a lot of theories for why this is the case, but I won't go into them here). This is a well-proven observation that has been written about a lot in respected medical journals (neurology journals, not gynecology journals)–it's NOT alternative medicine or some fringe theory or anything like that, so, again, it's a disgrace your doc doesn't know about it, yet it's all too common to find such ignorance. The reason you are experiencing a big drop in estrogen in the last few days of your "off" week before the new pack of pills starts, is: birth control pills contain an estrogen and an artificial progesterone. The pill suppresses the functions of your ovaries, which themselves otherwise would be producing estrogen and progesterone. So you have 3 weeks of hormones, and then one week of no hormones. Your ovaries are still producing some hormones, but not much, since they are suppressed. Your body gradually uses up the estrogens in the pill in the first few days of the placebo week, and when it gets low enough, then, just like your car's low-on-gas light going on, you get a migraine, as you have seen. This doesn't happen to every woman–just those who are susceptible to migraines. This is why many women get their first migraine shortly after they reach puberty–the fluctuations that women go through during their cycle seems to prime the pump to get migraines, while unchanging estrogen levels, such as occur before puberty and after menopause, are adjusted to by the body so there are no migraines.Many women do not learn of this susceptibility to migraines until they start the pill, because the pill can cause sharp drops in estrogen, while the body's own hormone production, which is constantly being adjusted 24/7, is more subtle in its changes. It might be worse for you because, with PCOS, your ovaries aren't getting out enough estrogen anyway. So what do you do about it? Happily, there are a few different possibilities. One is that you go on a type of pill that doesn't give you 7 days off estrogen. For example: Yaz is similar to Yasmin, but it only has 4 days of placebo–on the down side, it has 20mcgm of estrogen, while Yasmin has 30mcgm. The 20mcgm might be too low, but you can try it and see. Then there's Mircette–it has 20mcgm of estrogen too, but it gives you only 2 days/month when you're off estrogen. It's 21 days of estrogen+progesterone, then 5 days of just estrogen, then 2 days of nothing. Another possibility, maybe the best one for you: you take a birth control pill every day, skipping the placebo week entirely, never getting a period. This is becoming a more common practice. This way, your hormones are the same every day. Some docs are fine with this, others would rather give you a type of birth control that is made specifically for this purpose, like Lybrel (no break) or Seasonale, or LoSeasonique or Seasonique (three MONTHS of combined hormone pills, then placebo or one week of estrogen only). Only problem with those in this context is that they contain very low estrogen–15 to 20mcgm. Pay attention to the estrogen dose when you try other pills. The lower estrogen might be fine, or it might make you feel bad. If it does, then explore the higher dose estrogen. Usually they give women with PCOS higher dose pills to shut off their ovaries more effectively.

I also suggest you see a neurologist about the migraines. I'm a patient at one of the world's top headache clinics. they have all patients take mega-doses of magnesium, CoQ-10, and B-2. These help prevent migraines and reduce intensity. But it's my hope that if you change birth control pill types, the problem will be eliminated.Oh, and by the way: any neurologist who knows anything about migraines will tell you that hormones have a major effect on migraines. But they may not know what that effect is, since there is so much individual variation.

redhead Answered:
Well, you stated that everything was fine until you switched from generic.Maybe you can go back to the generic pill and everything will be fine.It seems due to the pills since it happens at the same time every single month.
Your endocronologist is not specialized in women's health issues, go talk to your gyecologist about this, or even the pharmacist.They know a lot about all the medicines they dispense and are often aware of other complaints by conusmers.Maybe this is a side effect of the drug.
While I am not that familiar with Yasmin, I do know many birth control pills vary the amount of hormones you get throughout the month, so what your endo. said about it should be happening the entire month could be totally false.
Go talk to your gynocologist and get this straightened out so you can feel better.

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