Flunarizine is more effective than topiramate in patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse headache
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Chronic migraine: medication overuse headache.
The diagnosis of chronic migraine implies that a patient has a history of migraine headaches and that he/she now is experiencing headache at least 15 days out of the month. Chronic migraine is common, afflicting about 1 in 50 citizens. Effective management of chronic migraine involves prescription of a daily preventive medicine intended to decrease headache frequency; aggressive acute treatment...
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Many medications that people take for migraine headaches can actually make headaches worse, if the medications are taken too frequently. When this occurs, the resulting problem is called “medication-overuse headaches.” Unfortunately, when medicationoveruse headaches occur, they can be difficult to treat. You can read more about migraine headaches and medication-overuse headaches on the next page.
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Despite the recent advances in the understanding and classification of the chronic daily headaches, considerable controversy still exists regarding the classification of individual headaches, including chronic migraine (CM) and medication overuse headache (MOH). The original criteria, published in 2004, were difficult to apply to most patients with these disorders and were subsequently revised,...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Headache and Pain
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1129-2369,1129-2377
DOI: 10.1186/1129-2377-14-s1-p202