In some cases, physicians will try to manipulate women's hormones to prevent menstrual migraines. But for some women, blocking their menstrual migraines by supplementing their estrogens only prolongs the inevitable. When they stop taking supplemental estrogen, their migraines come back. In addition, supplementing estrogen can alter women's menstrual cycles. Pregnancy M any migraine sufferers experience a reprieve from headaches during pregnancy.
Some women can even prolong their remission from migraines by breast-feeding their newborns.
Other women experience their first migraines after delivering their first child. For women who continue to have migraines while pregnant and who do not respond to nondrug therapies, anti-inflammatory drugs can be used to control migraine attacks. These drugs should not be used in the first week or so of pregnancy because they can cause bleeding complications for pregnant women. And anti-inflammatory drugs should not be used in the last month or so of pregnancy because they can affect the development of fetuses' pulmonary arteries. But in between, they are effective for stopping migraines and relatively safe for fetuses.