Pain pills Induced headaches. Is this giving you migraines?

I wrote a page on pain pills induced headaches several years ago on Squidoo.

This page is really for the ones that are just starting down the road on their journey with migraines.

I went on to tell about my wife's rebound headaches, and not having any migraine relief.

Let me start by saying you can very easy find yourself caught up in rebound migraines from pain medicine. When you're first diagnosed with migraines, or tension headaches or what ever type you suffer with, you know one thing.

You need something for the pain. We have found that good headache specialist will not even mention giving you "pain pills".

They will give you triptans for the pain.

But you can't use but so many of them in a month either. You may at first go to a doctor after you have a headache unlike other headaches, that brought on nausea, vomiting, and the worst pain you have ever experienced.

Your first thoughts were, I have a brain tumor.

When you went to the doctor or emergency room their diagnose was, you have had a migraine.

And you are wondering why your migraines don't respond to the pain pills that was prescribed for your headaches, and migraines after awhile.

Maybe some of you guys may say to yourself. No doctor would do that. Think again.

After my wife had been diagnosed with having migraines, several doctors that she went to prescribed her pain medicine on a regular bases.

Not one said she would get rebound headaches after awhile.

You think for awhile that you can go to any old doctor, and he would help that migraine"not".

When you first start having migraines, or headaches you can get caught up in the take a pill, and the pain will go away. It's easy to do.

Time has a way of going by quickly, and after awhile the pills will have to be taken more often to have the same effect. I have seen many of my wife's bottles (years ago)that would say, take as needed for pain.

So what do you do for your migraine treatment? It may surprise you, but many migraine, and headache sufferers never seek help.

They take over the counter pain medicine.And that works well for the occasional moderate headaches.

But if it goes to the place where you are reaching for the pain pills more, and more, stop.

Let's say that you have the classic migraine, just with the nausea, and vomiting ,(as if that isn't enough). Not ocular migraines, vestibular migraines,cluster migraines, basilar migraines, or complicated migraine.

Now you're feeling better already.

You don't have these disturbing, and some are very painful migraines. You just have pain pills induced headaches.

Here in a nut shell is what you have. You have Medication overuse headaches, which are also known as rebound headaches, and usually occur when analgesics are taken frequently to relieve headaches.

Rebound headaches frequently occur daily, and can be very painful, and are a common cause of chronic daily headache.

They typically occur in people with an underlying headache disorder such as migraines or tension headaches.

Your migraines can go from an episodic condition to chronic daily headaches due to more , and more frequent use of pain pills.

Does this sound familiar?

What is the treatment for pain pills induced headaches?

Medication overuse headaches is common, and can be treated. The overused medications must be stopped in order for you to have headache relief.

This is usually done under the care of a neurologist.

You will be started on preventive medications to ease your transition off the medications that induced the rebound cycle.

You're safe to stop over the counter analgesics without medical supervision, but if you are taking butalbital, and stop suddenly you may have a seizure.

About two months after stoping the overuse of pain medicine you will notice a reduction in your pain pills induced headaches, migraine frequency, and intensity.

It won't be easy, I assure you but you can do this.

After your headache specialist starts you on preventive medicine your migraines should improve, and if you already have been taking preventives while you were on so much pain medicine, your preventives will work better.

More info on the over use of pain medicine.

Our next page is on a mineral, that if in short supply in your body can give headaches and our last page was about those sinus headaches.

All the best with that headache

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