Purpose
to verify auditory behavior of temporal resolution in women with Menstrual Migraine.
Methods
40 women had participated, age between 18 to 31 years, 20 of them had presented menstrual migraine (study group) and 20 had not (control group). All of them were submitted to procedures which are part of an audiology’s routine. These procedures were made to characterize the peripheral hearing and to exclude people with hearing loss. They were also requested to answer a questionnaire elaborated for the researcher and submitted to the test Gap in noise. These procedures were carried out both in the precocious follicular phase and in the delayed luteal phase for volunteers who did not use any type of contraceptive, because in these periods the levels of the female hormones are higher and similar to those that used contraceptive.
Results
in the group of study, the values for the threshold gap and the percentage of rightness, regarding to the left ear were significant and statistically different relative to the control group. Within the right ear, the results were similar considering the two groups.
Conclusion
the temporal resolution in women with menstrual migraine, measure in a specific noise segment, regarding to the right ear, was similar for women without this complain, while in the left ear, the average of thresholds gap were different and those with migraine had the worst thresholds.
Hearing; Auditory Perception; Migraine Disorders
