When migraines decide to gatecrash your day, it’s bad enough. But when they line up perfectly with your menstrual cycle—and worse, throw in a sudden drop in cortisol—you get a very specific, often overlooked kind of headache: the menstrual cortisone drop migraine. I’ve had a few episodes that hit like clockwork the day before my…
Let me tell you, I didn’t think much of it at first. A slight throb, maybe some fogginess – just one of those off days, right? But when the headaches started showing up on a near schedule after I got my hormonal IUD, I had to dig deeper. Turns out, I’m not the only one…
There was a time I couldn’t make it through the day without worrying if a migraine was about to crash my plans—usually at the worst time possible. If you’re a woman navigating the rollercoaster of hormones, chances are you’ve noticed the connection between your cycle and those brain-splitting headaches. I didn’t always understand what was…
If you’re a new mom battling the emotional rollercoaster of postpartum and those nagging migraine attacks, you’re not alone. I’ve been there — burping a baby at 3 AM with one eye squinting against the pain of a brewing migraine. It’s a unique kind of exhaustion no one really warns you about. Hormonal dips, sleep…
Gaining a few pounds might not seem like a big deal at first—trust me, I’ve been there after a long holiday binge or a stretch of stress eating. But if you’re someone who deals with migraines, especially the hormonal kind, that extra weight can sneak up and wreak havoc in ways you might not expect….
If you’ve ever felt blindsided by a migraine right after switching your birth control, you’re far from alone. I remember thinking I was just stressed out at first — work deadlines, lack of sleep, maybe dehydration. But when I started connecting the timing of my hormonal birth control change and the searing one-sided pain that…
Last year, after switching to the contraceptive injection, I started experiencing a pattern I couldn’t ignore—pounding headaches that seemed to come with no clear cause. At first, I brushed them off as work stress or dehydration, but they were different. They’d hit hard, sometimes right before my next shot was due, and other times just…
When I first got a hormonal IUD, I was mostly focused on the benefits—lighter periods, long-term birth control, and not having to remember a pill every day. What I wasn’t prepared for was the sudden uptick in my migraines. At first, I brushed them off as random, maybe stress-induced. But as the pattern became clearer,…
For the longest time, I chalked up my recurring headaches to stress. Work deadlines, family obligations, life — you know how it piles up. But then came the curveball: my headaches seemed to sync with my cycle. At first, I dismissed it. Coincidence, maybe? Until I started tracking things more closely, and the pattern became…