Every Month Like Clockwork: Menstrual Migraine Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe menstrual migraine, beginning for some with a first period and for others in their forties, and almost always followed by years of being told it was hormones, stress or something to put up with. Writers describe diaries, apps and spreadsheets that finally revealed the pattern, and the doctor — often the third or fourth — who asked about their cycle. There is treatment in detail: triptans timed to the danger days, daily painkillers that slid into medication-overuse headache, short courses of anti-inflammatories, oestrogen gel around the period, running the pill continuously instead of taking the week off, the hormonal coil, CGRP injections and a neuromodulation device. Writers describe what the attacks cost them — exams, night shifts, a restaurant kitchen, a performance — and an emergency department visit. Contributors include a teenager and her mother, a trans man on testosterone, people without insurance, an athlete training around her cycle, and someone who had to stop the combined pill. Later chapters cover perimenopause and HRT patches, surgery that did not end it, relief after menopause, and accounts that end better rather than cured.

Who it's for

For anyone whose migraines track their cycle, parents of teenagers whose headaches arrive on schedule, partners and employers, and clinicians who have not yet asked about periods.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 241 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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