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Headaches : Rebound Headaches
If you have been suffering from chronic headaches and your headache medication only seems to be making things worse, the chances are that you are suffering from rebound headache. This condition results from overuse of certain drugs like aspirin, barbiturates, and ergotamine. Read ahead to know all you need to about rebound headaches.
A person is said to be suffering from rebound headache if he/she has very frequent headaches and it happens almost all the time. It is important for people to understand how rebound headaches start. For example, if someone is suffering from a headache five days a week. They may be mild and he/she take a couple of aspirin or a couple of Excedrin, and feel better. Four hours later, one may take a couple more and feel better and again four hours later, take a couple more. If one pays attention, one would realize that the person is taking six or eight pills a day, five or six days a week. What this does is that gradually the headache starts to occur every day and starts becoming severe from mild, and before one realizes, the medications that one was taking are not working any more. This is what a rebound headache is.
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There are two things that should be done to break this cycle of head aches that you have got yourself into. Firstly, one must gradually come off the medication that has caused the rebound headaches and within a few weeks one is bound to feel much better. Though this seems very simple, people find it difficult to do as they cannot tolerate the pain for the short period they must keep away from the medicine. So the next best option one has is to try to use other medications while one is coming off the acute pain medicines that one has been dependent on. This is basically using other medications that help lessen the withdrawal type of symptoms that they get.
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