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22. I'm so glad that yours have tapered off.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 10:27 AM
Jan 2022

During my lifetime, multiple women who are older than me told me that their migraine problems went away with menopause, or at least got better. So I was kind of looking forward to menopause.

But mine became significantly worse with the onset of menopause. Prior to that, I had a few a month. It wasn't fun but it was tolerable.

When menopause went into full swing, the migraines exploded. I keep a calendar of migraine information and during the worst period (in 2014) I experienced 87 migraines during one month. I would often get one on one side of my head, try to treat it with medication, only to have another one start on the other side of my head.

There were times during the worst period when I thought that suicide might be the answer. I was on several types of preventive and abortive migraine medications and none of it was helping. And the side effects form all the drugs! Oy!

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