turns Research that women with menstrual migraines average a lower estrogen peak than usual, ten days before the end of the cycle
One in ten women suffer from menstrual-related migraines. It was known that an acute change in hormone levels can rise to a migraine attack, but now for the first time that patients have a different hormonal pattern during the cycle. Also, the activity of one of the cranial nerves is with them than would otherwise than in women without migraine. This Researchers from Erasmus MC and the LUMC today in the journal Neurology.
Although the World Health Organization migraine in women in the third Instead of placing the most debilitating diseases, little is known about it. Now it seems it is not possible to treat migraines with good hormones, says lead researcher Antoinette Maassen van den Brink, an associate professor at the Erasmus MC. “Women are often advised the pill to swallow,” or to take an estrogen patch. These treatments usually do not work. “
Physical difference
There is indeed a physical difference. Those women set themselves on
The research, largely carried out by PhD student Khatera Ibrahimi, shows that women with menstrual migraines average have lower estrogen peak than usual, ten days before the end of the cycle. The researchers measured in addition, the activity of the fifth cranial nerve, which produces the headache. In healthy women nerve is most active around menstruation, but in women with menstrual migraine activity remains remarkably constant during the cycle. “How exactly, is still speculating,” said Maassen van den Brink. “But the crux of the matter is, there is a physical difference Those women ask not care.”.
A specific medicine for menstrual migraine is still far away, she says. A patient again and again give hormones could be harmful – indeed estrogen regulates many processes in the body. “But we now know in which direction to look for it.”
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