Medication overuse headache.
Medication overuse headache may complicate any type of headache and occurs in young people, adults, and even elderly patients. Overuse of acute medications may change intermittent or self-limited headaches into chronic daily headache. Migraineurs seem particularly prone to analgesic rebound headache/ transformed migraine/chronic migraine. Prophylactic therapies are often ineffective in the setting of medication overuse. Recognition of this condition allows appropriate clinical intervention that includes cessation of the offending medications.
Ward
Thomas N
TN
Section of Neurology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756, USA. Thomas.N.Ward@hitchcock.org
D000368:Aged; D000700:Analgesics / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003027:Cluster Headache / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000628:therapy; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012307:Risk Factors; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D018781:Tension-Type Headache / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States
D000700:Analgesics