Medication For Headache

 

The treatment is meant to stop the intake of painkillers. This is vital to cure the problem. After stopping the painkillers, you will have worse and more severe headache for a while. However, the frequency of headaches should then gradually return to 'normal'.

Medication headache is caused when you take painkillers too often for tension headaches or migraines. It is sometimes called medication overuse headache. For more information on it, read Other types of headaches: The List Goes On...

Alternative headache remedies and therapies like chiropractic, acupuncture, biofeedback, aromatherapy and meditation avoidance of any known migraine triggers, personal and family counseling, stress management natural headache relief and relaxation therapy are gaining importance in today's modern, busy and hectic lifestyles.

Because severe headache management may be complex, involving many different medications, it is important to maintain a good treatment plan that works for you in fighting headache rack and headache nausea.

All of the common painkillers used to treat tension headaches or migraine can cause this problem. These include: Codeine, Paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, almotriptan, eletriptan, naratriptan, rizatriptan, sumatriptan, and zolmitriptan.

You can restart using painkillers when the pattern of your headaches returns to 'normal'. To prevent a recurrence of medication headache, as a general rule:

* You should not take painkillers for headache on more than 15 days in any month.

* Do not take painkillers for two or more consecutive days.

* Codeine and tablets containing codeine are best avoided altogether. They are more likely to cause medication headache than other painkillers.


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