Migraine & Headache
Migraines: Could Painkillers Be Making Your Headaches Worse?
Sometimes a treatment is worse than the disease. But nearly as bad: Sometimes a treatment actually contributes to the health issue it's supposed to address.
This is the case with a common ailment, treated with a common over-the-counter medication, often prompting a return of the ailment, which is treated again, setting up a vicious cycle that many people get caught up in without ever knowing it.
Editor's note: read our Special Report on the side-effects of painkillers and what you can do to eliminate the damage they're causing to you
Epidemic proportions
Writing in a 1990 issue of the journal Headache, Dr John Edmeads, called headaches induced by analgesic medications an 'unrecognised epidemic.'
That assessment of drug rebound headaches is confirmed with a study published in the journal Headache. Researchers at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, recruited 145 patients with transformed migraine (TM), which is the most common type of chronic daily headache. All of the subjects reported having at least 15 headaches per month for the six months before the trial period began.
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