Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause trigger migraines. Fluctuating estrogen and progesterone worsen headaches, and some women get worse migraines in the first years after menopause when the brain adjusts to lower estrogen.
But for women who are going through perimenopause, their, their estrogen progesterone levels are all over the place, right? So that can also predispose someone to having worse migraines during this period in life and during menopause, too. You would think that finally, after menopause, like, everything evens out and we're going to be less predisposed to migraine. But some women, especially in the first few years of menopause, don't do well because their brain is, is used to getting estrogen and it's not getting estrogen.
