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Thank you!
Bettina
Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 01:59 PMre: Thank you!
Nancy Harris Bonk
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 07:37 PMThank you for your kind words.
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it made mine worse
mcmurraychick
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 11:52 AMi had my hysterectomy in august 06....... 2 months later i began a migraine spree that i don't see ever stopping.
hopfully when i see the neurologist they can do more to help me.
re: it made mine worse
Nancy Harris Bonk
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 at 07:38 PMI am sorry to hear that. Do you have all the information you need to your appointment with the doctor? Feel free to print out information from this site and take it with your to your doctors appointment.
Please let us know how it goes, ok?
re: re: it made mine worse
mcmurraychick
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 06:55 PMyes, my doctor was good enough to come here and look around, and they even pass the site along to patients. so they have everything i need to take with me to the neurologist.
i am also being sent to the ear, nose , and throat doctors, as we know sinus surgery is in my future. i was in an accident 10 years ago that shattered the orbital bone, leaving me with bone fragments in my sinus cavity. since the worst of my problems occur around weather changes, my doctor thinks that my sinitis may be triggering my migraines.
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Hysterectomy
kossamouse
Friday, November 07, 2008 at 07:32 PMI have had a hysterectom and my migraines have been worsing since. So I agree that in some case such as mine it did not offer any relief.
re: Hysterectomy
Nancy Harris Bonk
Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 09:02 PMThere is no evidence that hysterectomy will improve or worsen Migraines. Hormones play such an important part in our system.
Are you on any preventives now? I hope you are feeling better soon.
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Amerge
nutcracker1
Sunday, November 09, 2008 at 03:23 AMIt's also possible to use Amerge preventively during one's period. On my doctor's recommendation, that is what I do, and I am very pleased with the results. It's rare that a migraine "breaks through" the preventive Amerge, and if it does, a second Amerge is generally able to abort it.
My general preventive program has also helped reduce the severity of hormonally-triggered migraines, and has also raised the trigger "threshhold." It used to be that any time I hot-flashed, I knew a migraine was soon to follow. Now, my period must be on the way or in progress for hormones to trigger a migraine.
Hormones remain my biggest trigger.
Every so often someone recommends that I try taking hormones to reduce my hormonally-triggered migraines, but so far, I have not wanted to go that route. It's sort of like the hysterectomy; while hormones help some women, they seem to make others worse, and I don't see a reason to take that chance.
re: Amerge
Nancy Harris Bonk
Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 10:02 PMYes, I tried Amerge quite a few years ago. It didn't seem to do the trick for me. But then again, maybe I should give it another try. Who knows, I may have good luck with it like I did Relpax and Axert.
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Kristie
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 04:54 PMMy migraines have started since I had a hysterectomy in March of 09. It is now June. I am hoping that it will pass, but I used to have one or two migraines a year, I now have every 15-18 days, when I normally would ovulate.
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Nancy Harris Bonk
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 02:48 PMHi Kristie
Unfortunately, a hysterectomy does not guarantee that Migraines will get better. It just removes one of our triggers. Our hormones still flucuate, we just don't experience menstruation longer.
We have a great Ask the Clinician question that discusses this question. You can read more about this here: Role of hormones in causing Migraines? This Sharepost may be helpful too: Migraine Disease, Menstrual Migraines, and Hysterectomy.
I hope this helps.
Nancy
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What a great review! Thanks, Nancy.
Betts