migraines and breast cancer

[redrhodie]

Some positive news for those of us who suffer from migraines:

http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/news/20081105/migraines-may-cut-breast-cancer-risk

[ny biker]

I've taken daily medication to prevent/minimize migraines for almost 20 years now, and it has worked very well. So I wonder how that might affect things for me. The meds aren't hormone related, but they helped me go from daily migraines to 1-2 per month for many years.

[bmccasland]

Interesting... Rough choice - head in a vice grip, with a knife through my eye + nausea OR risk of breast cancer? Very rough choice.

Where's the part of fewer migraines after menopause? My body didn't get that memo?

[Miranda]

That's an interesting study. Thx for sharing that link. My mom is a b-ca survivor. Hers came back a second time even with whatever hormone blocking med her onc had her on. It's such a blessing she's alive. The ca had spread to the lymph nodes too with the first ca.

My sis and I both have funky lumpy stuff in our girls that we get diag mammos for. But nothing bad to date.

I have had migraines since my hormones kicked in during puberty. When I was on the bc pill, they were much worse. Now that I'm on the perimenapausal road, my headaches do seem less. So, what they say in this study makes sense.

I tried to take rx migraine headache meds before. They were--yuck! I think one of my saving graces is that I'm a total coffee junkie. I think the caffeine does for me what imitrex tried to do... but without the nasty side effects. I take a lot of Advil too. That would be a miracle if any of it helped spare me of my mom's ordeal with ca.