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Re: Birth control pill for Migraine HeadachesFrom: Patti Tessler, FNP (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:08:46 -0500 (CDT)
At Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jill wrote: >It is so good to know that someone else is having the same exact problem >as I am. I have three kids and never had a migraine while pregnant, >however, since my last child who is now almost four, I have had terrible >migraines. My doctor put me on Mircette, which he thought would help, >but I think they made my migraines worse!! I always get a migraine with >my period, and sometimes in between. It is terrible!! I am currently >prescribed Amerge for migraine relief, which helps sometimes. Please >let me know what you find out with your doctor. You can email me if you >would like, since I am not good at checking with postings. Some of us who get menstrual migraines get relief from "tri-cycling," or taking our birth control pills continuously without taking the placebo pills. Normally, women doing this will take the placebo pills on every third cycle, since going longer may lead to unpredictable and annoying breakthrough bleeding. As noted elsewhere on this forum, the practice is safe. Of course, if the pills are increasing your migraine frequency in the first place, then taking more pills probably won't help. If you're like me, and birth control pills seem to reduce the frequency of your migraines (I get a predictable one per cycle, on day 24 of each pack of pills), then tri-cycling might work.
-- Patti Tessler, BSN, MSN, RN, CS Family Nurse Practitioner
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