115 - Migraine and hormones, with specialist Dr Katy Munro

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr Katy Munro was a GP partner in a Hertfordshire practice for many years and developed migraine in her 40s, around the time of her own perimenopause. This led to an interest in migraine and her involvement with the National Migraine Centre, first as a patient and then as a doctor.

Katy now works as a GP Headache Specialist at the National Migraine Centre, a charity that raises awareness on migraine, shares information and advises how to manage it. In this podcast episode, she chats to Louise about what migraine is, dispels myths, and explains why migraine is not just simply a ‘bad headache’. The experts discuss the role of estrogen in migraine, other possible triggers, and ways to help minimise the onset, severity and frequency of migraine. This hugely useful conversation is a must-listen if you or a loved one experiences migraine.

Katy has recently written a book on migraine, ‘Managing Your Migraine’, and it is available to buy now.

Katy's 3 reasons to buy her book:

Educate yourself on migraine and take control of it.
There is hope, no matter what you’ve already tried there will be something else – you’re not at the end of the line.
Migraine is genetic. Think about not just who you got it from, but who you’ll pass it on to. We need to learn more about how to help children who go on to develop migraine and there’s a chapter on this in my book.

National Migraine Centre - www.nationalmigrainecentre.org.uk

‘Managing Your Migraine’, by Dr Katy Munro, is published by Penguin Life Experts and is out now.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
0:15.8	specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health
0:22.5	Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.7	Today I want to welcome to you Katie Munro, who I've not actually met in real life, but she's
0:36.6	a fellow author, so we both authored books, which we'll actually met in real life, but she's a fellow author. So we've both
0:38.4	authored books, which we'll talk about in a bit. But she is a migraine specialist. And for many
0:43.7	of you who know me or have listened to me, probably know that I experience migraines, and I
0:49.5	have a particular interest in migraines. And migraines can get worse with hormone changes. So it seems very
0:55.6	pertinent that we welcome. Katie today. So thanks ever so much for joining me, Katie.
1:00.2	Thank you for the invitation, Louise. I feel as if it's a great honor to be on your podcast
1:05.9	and there's such an overlap between the conditions that we both see. And personally, I didn't start getting
1:12.2	migraine until I was in my 40s and coming up to perimenopause. So it was sorting out my own
1:17.6	HRT that really helped. It's amazing, isn't it? I think you learn so much in medicine when it's a
1:23.8	lived in experience and either yourself or a family member or a close friend.
1:29.5	And there's nothing like having a migraine to be able to really sympathise with people
1:34.9	who experience migraines, isn't it?
1:36.5	I think I feel very guilty because I've given my migraine genetic predisposition to one
1:42.3	of my children, only one hopefully, and my mother feels even
1:45.5	more guilty, and my grandmother, if she was alive, would have felt guilty too. But there's a lot of
1:50.0	people when you say you have a migraine, oh, right, it's a bit like saying I've got a headache
1:54.2	and they're completely different, aren't they? Absolutely, yeah. A migraine is not just a headache.
1:59.4	It's kind of the mantra that we're always talking about. You know, there's so many other symptoms that you can get brain fog, dizziness, nausea, vomiting. So, yeah, a migraine attack can be very debilitating or can be actually quite mild. And there's lots of myths and misconceptions out there about migraine.
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