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Do Not Overuse Headache Medication |
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Every person who has headache or migraine
should be told about medication overuse headache (MOH) by their doctors
because knowing about it in advance could save you a great deal of pain.
If your doctor hasn't told you about the potential of your medications
to cause MOH, ask about it. For more information on medication overuse, read The
Forecast Of Headaches
The diagnosis of
medication overuse headache is clinically extremely important because
patients rarely respond to preventative medications whilst overusing
acute medications.
Medication Overuse Headache can be avoided by
not using medications for the relief of headache for more than two to
three days a week. For the chronic sufferer, that's nothing but a simple
solution. Beyond that, there is no real answer for pain on additional
days that week. The long-term answer is, of course, an effective
preventive regiment that reduces the need for MOH-causing medications.
People who have MOH may also have headache nausea, severe headache,
irritability, constant headache, migraines, depression, problems
sleeping or persistent headache.
Characteristic features of MOH
include the following:
1. The frequency of the headaches
increases over the time.
2. Patient often wakes up early in the
morning with a daily headache.
3. Some of the headache causes may
become idiosyncratic and may lead to headache fever.
4. The
patient may become more vulnerable to headache due to stress or exertion.
5.
Greater doses of medications are needed to alleviate the headache.
The
relief only lies in trying some headache remedies which could pull you
out of the condition.
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