Are you talking about migranes with your period?

yes I am. I get them every month and they are terrible I have to use a imitrex injection to get any kind of relief

I've read about migraines with a woman's period and they are usually due to hormones. Below is an article to explain them. You just click on the green link and it takes you right to the article:

http://headaches.about.com/od/womenandmigraines/a/Understanding-Menstrual-Migraine.htm

My suggestion is to see your OB/GYN and discuss this problem and ask about the different ways of cessation of periods because the problem occurs during periods. Ask the OB/GYN if it would keep the estrogen levels still up, but stop your period in order to try to stop the menstrual migraines.

I think your male doctor may want to treat the migraines, but I'm wondering if you talk with an OB/GYN if you can solve them by treating your period. I suffer with migraines and I have a hysterectomy. If I could try a simply solution such as stopping a period or only having my period once a year or twice a year and that helped stop the migraines, I would jump on it. Good luck.

I had horrible hormonal migraines. I would be laid up for 2 weeks out of every month because they were so bad.

I did talk to my ob/gyn about it, and she put me on the depo provera shot, which stopped my period altogether. That was the best thing I could have done.

I still have migraine, which I see a headache specialist for, but I don't have the hormonal migraines anymore.

Good luck to you!

I had hormonal migraines, but also have regular migraines also. They removed my ovaries in my forties to try and stop the migraines, unfortunately for me I didn't see any improvement and went straight into menopause. I would not do it again in hindsight. Hope you get better results.

I suffer from hormonal migraines. Your not alone. It can be very easy to determine if hormones are a trigger. Chart your migraines on a calendar along with your period start and end date. I typically get a migraine 2-3 days before the start of my period and will get one toward the end of my period. Also, I have found through charting on the calendar, that I get migraines right about 10 days to 2 weeks from the start of my period. That is due to ovulation.

I was put on just about every birth control pill known to man (horrible year - I bled more days than not bled that year and stopping heavy bleeding was the other reason we were trying them). I ended up on Lupron for a few years - it puts you into a chemical menopause - which stopped the heavy bleeding, but I still had migraines.

Good luck with all this - it doesn't seem an easy thing to fix.