There is a belief that patients STOP having migraines after menopause – 40 years ago they said this that it would stop and that the migraines would improve – but some people don’t have that happen. We live longer now. People retired at 65 because you died at 66! BUT people are living longer – women live many years! Chronic pain doesn’t always disappear for these old women. And in some people – it is a new pain. She sees 6,000 patients a year. She feels migraineurs are not seeing premature aging in the brain and getting Alzheimer’s. (YAY!) But she also said we need to do more research in the elderly to substantiate this.