Migraines around period - Does birth control help?

I still had migraines while on the mini-pill but they were significantly better than when I was off of it

I typically get a migraine every month before my period starts (and also just throughout the month) and for me when I went on birth control it got dramatically worse. Not to scare you and there were other reasons too but I decided I just can’t go on hormonal birth control again. Im not sure about non hormonal options, I’m also currently pregnant and the pregnancy is also making the migraines worse so I think my body just doesn’t like hormones haha

I tried a BC to delay my periods 3 months in between but because I get aura, the BC actually made my migraines significantly worse and I had them almost every day. I switched to the paragard non hormonal IUD and now have only had 6-7 migraines since end of summer/ beginning of fall of 2021

Yep. Or at least that's the pattern I'm starting to see. I take BC to avoid periods, so I think it lengthens the time between migraine bouts. But before my period, it will be like every other day :/

I had a migraine every time my period started. I started taking the bc pill and they immediately stopped. It only helps with the hormonal migraines however. I do still get migraines otherwise.