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Menopausal Headaches—Psychogenic or Metabolic? *
Author(s) -
GREENBLATT ROBERT B.,
BRUNETEAU DANIEL W.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1974.tb02167.x
Subject(s) - medicine , headaches , migraine , estrogen , dose , androgen , hormone , psychogenic disease , endocrinology , physiology , surgery , psychiatry
Constant, adequate dosages of estrogen, androgen or estrogen‐androgen combinations provide relief from the migraine and migrainoid headaches often experienced by menopausal women. This form of therapy employs natural physiologic hormones in preference to synthetic nonphysiologic agents such as ergotamines, barbiturates or addictive drugs. In the author's studies of hundreds of women with menopausal headaches, such hormones administered by pellet implantation gave beneficial results superior to those obtained by oral or parenteral administration.