86: When Hot Flash Hell Meets Headache Hell: Migraines and Menopause
Author
Lauren Streicher, MD
Published
Thu 20 Jul 2023
Episode Link
https://audioboom.com/posts/8337378
It is beyond unfair that when someone with menstrual migraines is finally heading into menopause and no longer must worry about monthly migraines, those same women often experience an uptick in frequency of headaches due to the peri menopausal hormone roller coaster.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:
The relationship between hormones and migraine headaches
Why birth control pills are often not prescribed to women with migraines with aura
If it is safe for women with migraines to take hormone therapy
If hormone therapy will decrease the frequency of migraine headaches
What kind of hormone therapy is best for women with migraines
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.