Patients may be surprised to learn that their headache medication can lead to MORE headaches

April 2013

Patients may be surprised to learn that their headache medication can lead to MORE headaches...instead of relieving them.

This often happens when people overuse their headache med.

For example, it can happen when using butalbital combos (Fiorinal, etc) for 5 or more days/month...an opioid (oxycodone, etc) for 8 or more days/month...or triptans (sumatriptan, etc), combo analgesics, or NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc) for 10 or more days/month.

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Patients may be surprised to learn that their headache medication can lead to MORE headaches

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