Menstrual headaches are often considered to be menstrual migraine or anxiety and other psychosomatic factors caused by neurological headaches, oral medication can be considered for treatment.
1. Menstrual migraine: it is a kind of migraine, which is obviously related to menstrual cycle, mostly attacked before and after menstruation. First of all, we need to pay attention to ensure sufficient rest, and some of the patients can be relieved after resting, and if it is not effective, we can take ibuprofen, ergotamine and other medicines to alleviate the pain; moreover, we can take flunarizine and other medicines orally for prophylactic treatment before attacking.
2. Neurotic headache: some women due to dysmenorrhea and other reasons, before and after menstruation will appear obvious anxiety, which in turn causes neurotic headache, treatment can take ibuprofen and other symptomatic pain medication, if accompanied by obvious anxiety, affecting sleep, can consider taking trazodone and other anti-anxiety drugs.
There are many possible reasons for a significant headache during menstruation, it is recommended to seek medical attention in a timely manner, take medication under the guidance of a doctor, do not take medication at will, especially painkillers, so as not to induce drug overuse headache, aggravate the condition.