Birth control pills: Migraine’s Hidden Culprit

April 8, 2008

The Women’s Health Institute of Texas is thoroughly convinced that birth control pills are one of the primary factors responsible for causing migraine headaches. I detected early on an extremely close connection between taking these pills and migraine development.
Many of my patients also noticed the same association and stopped taking birth control medication on their own. But it was too late - these pills had done their damage by fundamentally altering the body’s basic hormonal balance.
Birth control pills are quite literally a slow acting poison. They can do irreparable damage to the part of the ovaries that manufacture sex hormones. In a large portion of women I saw who went on the pill, migraine headaches soon developed, along with a host of other physical problems.
“The pill” is not the innocent drug we’ve been lead to believe. Even taking them for only a few months can lead to permanent damage. However – the effects are cumulative: The longer one takes birth control pills the greater the danger.
The birth control pill is even prescribed to non-sexually active teenagers to control their abnormal periods. This was acceptable medical practice back in the 1970’s and 80’s - and unfortunately remains so today. As a result, two or three decades later these women have numerous gynecologic problems - including a side legacy of migraine headaches.
The health risks are directly proportional to the length of time one uses them. It’s not unusual to come across women who’ve taken these pills for 15 or 20 years – and have a host of gynecological maladies to prove it.