According to researchers in a recently published article in the British Medical Journal the answer is “maybe” a small increased incidence of strokes in women who have migraines with aura.
But other commentators think that the association with oral contraceptives is the reason for the increased stroke risk (and other cardiovascular events).?? I am in the camp that says that birth control pills cause the strokes, the heart problems AND the migraines – aura or no aura.
What is worse is that once a woman starts birth control pills – even for a short time – she may have permanent effects from it.
Why??? The synthetic, chemically altered hormones in the birth control pills poison the ovaries.?? This is just anecdotal observation over the last 20 years show that about half of women do fine with oral contraceptives.?? This means that the other half do not.?? And they are the ones who show up in doctors’ offices with “female problems”.
Most doctors just dismiss these “female problems” with a paternalistic prescription for anti-depressives – well, you know the drill, that is why you are on this website.
Many, if not most, of these women can be helped by natural (bio-identical) hormones.?? This is what your body needs and??is not getting enough on its own.?? So we supplement these hormones, along with some other supplements – and get decent results.?? It is not always perfect, but if your migraines get 80% better, no one is complaining.
So mainsteam medicine is coming around to the fact that birth control pills may have something to do with migraines.?? Good for them.?? Now they have another 20 years before they catch up with the rest of us.
Andrew Jones, M.D.
Medical Director, Women’s Health Institute of Texas
www.Migraine-Headaches-Information.com
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