Rebound Headaches Account for Recurrent Headaches

They typically occur in headache sufferers with an underlying headache disorder such as migraines or tension headaches that transform over time from an episodic condition to a chronic daily headache, due to excessive consumption of headache medications.

People that have migraines generally take more, and stronger pain medicine than headache sufferers. Then in a period of time, you find your head is hurting more, and more. Not so much from the pain of the migraines, although there are some of them thrown in to boot, but that old dull pain felt all the time.

But for an aggravating everyday headache, you need something for them to. And pretty soon, you not only have a frequent headache, but it really never quits. Sound familiar? I remember going to a headache seminar some twenty years ago at a local hospital when my wife's migraines, for some unknown reason shifted into high gear.

These frequent headaches were getting worst, and we were actually new to this headache scene.

(She had her monthly headaches before that, something many women have), but little did we know what was ahead. You may relate to this.

But back to the seminar.

Out of all that was said, I remember the speaker talking about rebound headaches, and how the pain medicine you take for your headache can let you down. (big time) And of course we were naive, and it didn't really apply to her. Boy, were we wrong.

The thing that I want to point out now, is the day to day pain medicine, can sneak up on you, and you won't even realize what is wrong with your head.

And I say this because several doctors prescribed everyday pain medicine for her headaches and migraines, and I don't know if they didn't think, or even cared what was going to happen. Good headache specialist won't give you much headache pain medicine, and will tell you not to take to often, because they know what will happen.

For some trust worthy people, if you can't trust your doctor to look out for you, then what's going to happen to your headache. Many, what I call, run of the mill doctors, never let their patents know what can happen if you take a dose every six hours or as needed.

Many headache sufferers have never heard the term, rebound headache, medication overuse headache, or analgesic rebound headaches.

My doctor (general practitioner) even asked me about my wife's migraines, (probably to treat her patients ) and she told me that she saw people with headaches, and she didn't help them !!!!!!!! Most people don't think about this, but you can also have a withdrawal headache from caffeine, because it is a stimulant.

Rebound headache symptoms!!!

To much pain medicine may take your head into a transformed migraine or tension-type headache and may assume the characteristics of both of these common headache types. In other words a migraine or headache all the time. (Which translates to no fun.)

Since there is no test for a rebound, your symptoms will be mild to moderate, dull, steady pain, and can intensify into a migraine.(My wife's would) It's felt on any part of the head.

Anxious, sleeping irregularity, depressed, irritable, along with other neurological, and psychological symptoms. Also, after taking your pain medicine, if your headache returns in four to six hours, you may be having rebounds. Let's finish up on the next page on these every day headaches. From medication overuse you can have what is called CDH.

To find headache and migraine relief something has to be done for chronic daily headaches. We'll discuss how medication withdrawals could actually land you in the hospital on our next page.

Good luck on the rebound-headaches.

Our last page is about alcohol headaches and our next page is more info on a rebound headache, or everyday headache.

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