What causes headaches before and after menstruation?

Women will experience some abnormal changes in their bodies before and after their menstruation, such as abdominal and chest pain, etc., but some women experience headaches before and after their menstruation. If you experience headaches before or after your period, it is usually related to your period. I have a lot of women who are worried about whether they have some menstrual diseases. So what causes headaches before and after menstruation?

Modern medicine believes that the causes of menstrual headaches are both physiological and pathological. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that headaches are related to qi and blood deficiency during women's menstrual period.

Modern science believes that menstrual headaches are related to the decrease in serum estrogen concentration during menstruation. Due to the influence of women's physiological factors, the estradiol concentration in women's serum will decrease during and before and after menstruation. This change will cause changes in vascular tension, causing headaches in some women who are sensitive to this. After menstruation, the estradiol concentration in the serum returns to normal and the patient's headaches can also be relieved. There is another possibility that estrogen (including estradiol) can stimulate the secretion of prolactin, thereby directly or indirectly stimulating the secretion of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins act on blood vessels, causing vascular contraction and dilation. This change also shows cyclical changes due to the influence of estrogen, thereby triggering headache attacks.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that menstrual headaches are related to qi and blood deficiency and excessive liver fire, and qi and blood deficiency is the main cause of menstrual headaches. During menstruation, women lose a large amount of menstrual blood, which leads to loss of Qi and blood. Deficiency of Qi and blood leads to poor blood circulation, blood stasis causes blood obstruction, and obstruction causes pain. If not treated in time, it will turn into periodic or other types of more severe headaches.

Some disappointments in real life can also become the trigger for menstrual headaches. In real life, work pressure is high. Female friends will inevitably encounter some unpleasant things or some difficult problems in their family life and work. In addition, the intense life and work pressure in modern cities puts the brain nerves in a state of tension. Mental fatigue, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, and some women even go without eating for a long time to lose weight. These bad living habits may lead to endocrine disorders and then cause premenstrual syndrome. ...