A short excerpt from a YouTube video (The #1 Surprising Trigger of Migraine Headaches) by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle are a common migraine trigger. The speaker describes that estrogen and progesterone rise during the cycle and then fall sharply at menstruation; this sudden drop—especially in estrogen—can precipitate 'menstrual migraines.'
Are there any other major triggers? Yes. The big one, which I'm sure a lot of your audience is going to want to hear about, is hormones. Yes, Hormones going through, you know, just your regular menstrual cycle. So what happens during the regular cycle is that our progesterone and estrogen levels rise, rise, rise, and then just as we start menstruating, they suddenly fall. And again, our brain is so used to having regularity, so when you have that high level of hormone, then all of a sudden it's falling really quickly. That can trigger a migraine attack. So a lot of women get what they call menstrual migraines because they have a sudden drop in their estrogen level.
