Meet Your Local Headache: Hormone Headaches

There are over 150 diagnostic categories for headaches, but most people don’t know one from the next. Like any medical problem, proper diagnosis is half the battle. So assuming you’ve already tried drinking more water and turning off the loud music, this series will help you identify and treat your headaches, while teaching you everything you need to know about the pain in your head that becomes a pain in the ass.

The Girly Girl: Hormone Headaches

Hormone headaches are for women only, because they are a direct result of menstruation and the concurrent hormonal changes. There are two main types: PMS headache and menstrual migraine. A PMS headache comes right before your period along with the rest or your PMS symptoms (fatigue, acne, joint pain, constipation, cravings, etc). For obvious reasons there’s not much to be done about a PMS headache, except consider yourself lucky that they only occur a few days a month.

A menstrual migraine can occur before, during, or after your period, or during ovulation (doesn’t seem like there’s many days left, huh?) Menstrual migraines have all the same signs of a typical migraine (throbbing head pain, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound) but are less likely to include the blind spots and wavy lines of an aura.

Just like with a regular migraine, talk to your doctor about what treatments might be best for you.

JBNI is the producer of this blog and maker of over 33 Herbal Naturaceuticals that help with everything from migraines to PMS to everyday aches and pains.

Online Sources:

http://www.medicinenet.com/

http://www.headaches.org/