This short transcript excerpt (from a YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber) discusses how estrogen deficiency during menopause can trigger new-onset migraines in patients who never previously had them. The speaker links loss of estrogen’s neuroprotective effects to increased migraine risk and suggests related cardiovascular changes in menopause (higher blood pressure, stiffer arteries) may contribute.
I've had patients who've never experienced migraines. They go into menopause, and that estrogen deficiency is now triggering migraines that they've never experienced. And the doctors are all baffled. Like, I don't know what's wrong with you. It doesn't make any sense. And it really is that estrogen deficiency. Your brain cells are so used to the protection of estrogen, and they're like, where's my estro nutrition? You know, And I. I'm assuming it has something to do with our cardiovascular system in general, because we know blood pressure goes up in menopause. Your arteries become stiffer, they're less, you know, elastic and pliant, and. And that's got to all affect your risk of just developing a migraine.
