Well, it's nice to have a hobby.
Posted on 08/18/2004 2:51:43 PM PDT by Pharmboy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research involving male-to-female transsexuals lends further credence to the theory that sex hormones are involved in migraine generation, physicians report in the medical journal Neurology.
"We know that migraine is more frequent in women than in men," co-investigator Dr. Tamara Pringsheim told Reuters Health, "so a lot of research goes into what estrogen does to the brain."
A new way to examine this issue, she added, is to look at a population of genetic males who take antiandrogens and estrogen to induce female sex characteristics.
Pringsheim, at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Louis Gooren, at Free University Amsterdam, distributed questionnaires regarding headache symptoms and frequency to 50 transsexuals who had recently undergone sex reassignment surgery, all of whom were taking hormonal therapy.
Thirteen (26 percent) fulfilled criteria for migraine or probable migraine, similar to the number of cases of migraine in genetic females that would be expected. In contrast, the expected number of cases of migraine in genetic males is significantly lower.
Pringsheim and Gooren theorize that the increased prevalence of migraine is related to the effect of hormone therapy on nitric oxide, a known migraine trigger.
"Normally, vascular reactivity is different in men than in women because of estrogen's effect on nitric oxide," Pringsheim explained. "Interestingly, cardiologists who have studied vascular reactivity in male-to-female transsexuals found something similar -- that they have enhanced arterial activity -- so we know the hormones are doing something to the blood vessels."
She acknowledged that other mechanisms may be at play, such as the stress of gender reassignment or adoption of a female gender role. Follow-up studies that include headache histories and neurological examinations to confirm the diagnosis of migraine should shed more light on these issues.
SOURCE: Neurology, August 10, 2004.
Well, not for their partners, not anymore.
Research? What a waste of money. I could have told Tamara just the thought of having your jewels cut off gives most men migraines.
Research? What a waste of money. I could have told Tamara just the thought of having your jewels cut off gives most men migraines.
Well, it's nice to have a hobby.
Women havve more migraines. Becoming a woman increases the likelihood of having migraines. Heck, just deciding not to have sex causes migraines in some women.
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Must ... restrain ... chauvinistic ... comments ...
I thought for male to female trannies they actually had that cut off. Must be something I don't care to know. Who cares if those weirdos have ANY aches, anyway? Who funded this study, the DNC?
Maybe anyone who would have this done to themselves has a brain problem to begin with.
Thought you'd be interested in the (ahem) science, here...
Hahahaha :)<<
Agreed, these people are obviously screwed up mentally. What does it prove that they have increased migraines? I suspect they have more stress in all aspects of their lives, since they are trying to be something they are not.
proctologist?
The results of this research [in imprecise form] have been a part of common language usage for ages. Consider the expression "to act like a ****". So not much new there.
I've been doing my own research on that topic. Being a gentleman, I shall not present my findings.
I live in Asheville NC, known for it's trannies and other um.. undesirables. Having seen several of these... beings, I have made an observation that a majority of them were men who would make lumberjacks seem malnourished. I would have a headache too if I were trying to squeeze size 13DDD feet into a size 9 stilletto. Not to worry tho, something in the hormonal cocktail (gentleman, please) makes their all of their cholesterol parameters sky high..
Deviant behavior always has a price.
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