Migraine Headaches Support Group

Most of my experience with BC has been progesterone based products....currently I take the shots. HOWEVER....I did try a change and was using the NuvaRing for about 6 months. Let me tell you what BIG FAT MISTAKE!!!! Not only did I have more frequent migraines but I also had much more intense migraines. I also suffered from debilitating vertigo and was completely miserable the entire time. I had those migraines every single time it was time to put in a new ring and it would last from just a day or two in the beginning to the whole 3 weeks it was in. They ranged from the annoying sicky ones to the ones where I wished there was some way I could pull my head off and store it for a while until it stopped hurting.

Now I am not sure about the fatal interactions but I do know that for 6 years of the shots to going on the ring to going back on the shots I will NEVER EVER go back to estrogen based BC ever again it just isnt worth it.

I just switched birth control pills from yaz to another generic version because of migraines. But she had no problem with me starting to take the migraine pills while I was on Yaz, which has both estrogen and progestin. And she didn't tell me there were any fatal interactions.

I decided to do a search using migraines with estrogen. I got this site http://www.migraines.org/treatment... and it talks about how women with auras have a greater risk for strokes that greatly increases with other risk factors such as age and smoking.

I love google and I would really suggest seeing what you can find on there as well.

My migraines went from rare and well-controlled to daily and constant when my idiotic prescription plan told me to take a "generic equivalent" of my BC pills that were not only not an equivalent, they actually had 2x the active ingredient. I don't know what interaction they could be talking about but some migraines can lead to strokes and so can BC pills. I have never heard, though, that taking BC pills can make a stroke more likely specifically if you get migraines. I would ask my doctor if I were you.

I'm worried that my Mirena is making my headaches worse.. they had been fairly manageable. Recently they have been everyday. I've had the IUC about 6 months

I have heard of birth control causing more migraines... initially a long time ago my doctor didn't want to prescribe b/c for my awful periods because she told me it would make my migraines worse.... but I don't remember the why, or details..... and I haven't tried any other form of b/c other than condoms, mostly because I'd heard of it making migraines worse and wasn't willing to risk that...

I am no longer allowed to take birth control pills as they increase the risk of stroke in people with migraine with aura and threrfore increase the risk of death

Lorna

yeh i was told this, due to the the fact that in my miagrane i get a cut off of blood then suden flow and get numbness down half my body and birth control either thickens or thins ( cant remmeber) the blood which could make it even more dangerous when i get a miagrane.