284 - Migraines and menopause: what’s the connection?

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dr Rebecca Walker, a GP who specialises in headache medicine and migraines. In this episode, Dr Rebecca and Dr Louise (who suffers from migraines herself) get back to basics, looking at what migraines are, why they can occur and management approaches, from lifestyle measures to medication. They also talk about how hormone changes during perimenopause and menopause can impact the frequency and severity of migraines, and bust some myths around taking HRT if you have a history of migraines. Follow Dr Rebecca on Instagram @dr_rebeccawalker. For more information on migraines, visit the National Migraine Centre here, and you can find resources about migraine and menopause on the balance website here. You can also listen to an earlier episode of the Dr Louise Newson Podcast with Dr Katy Munro, author of Managing Your Migraine, by clicking here or searching for episode 115 on your favourite streaming app. For more information on Newson Health, click here.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.4	So today on the podcast, I've got someone called Dr Rebecca Walker with me, who is a GP
1:09.2	with a special interest in migraines, as well as hormones as well. And as many of you
1:15.0	know, the two are very closely linked. So I wanted to dedicate this podcast to really just
1:20.0	talking a lot about migraines. I have a big personal interest being a migraine sufferer myself.
1:26.5	And it's really shocking. Menopause is neglected,
1:29.8	but migraines are really neglected, actually. They're under-recognise, they're under-diagnosed,
1:36.6	they're under-treated. And actually, the impact of migraines is just still not recognised to the extent. So it causes a lot of personal
1:46.5	suffering, a lot of professional suffering because people are able to go to work and a lot of
1:51.3	unnecessary costs to the NHS as well because people are not given the right treatments or
1:56.0	given inappropriate treatments. So hopefully we can unpick some of what migraines are, how best we can
2:03.3	optimize them because us with migraines know we'll never not, we'll never be cured. It's not
2:09.3	curable, but it's manageable. And so we just want some really great tips from an expert. So thanks
2:14.9	for coming today, Rebecca. That's my pleasure, Louise.
2:17.6	Thank you for asking me and putting migraine on your agenda because, yes, it's important to
2:22.9	meet you for all the reasons that you have said. Yeah, so it's very timely actually. I'm just coming
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