title: Medication overuse headache.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03756, USA. Thomas.N.Ward@hitchcock.org
authors.forename: Thomas N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics