Menopausal headaches--psychogenic or metabolic?

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Constant, adequate dosages of estrogen, androgen or estrogen‐androgen combinations provide relief from the migraine and migrainoid headaches often experienced by menopausal women. This form of therapy employs natural physiologic hormones in preference to synthetic nonphysiologic agents such as ergotamines, barbiturates or addictive drugs. In the author's studies of hundreds of women with menopausal headaches, such hormones administered by pellet implantation gave beneficial results superior to those obtained by oral or parenteral administration.