Help Patients Prevent and Treat Rebound Headaches

April 2022

The multitude of headache meds will lead to questions about how to manage medication overuse headache.

These “rebound” headaches usually occur in patients with migraine or tension headaches...who frequently use one or more acute headache meds (butalbital, Excedrin, triptans, etc).

The best “treatment” is prevention. Caution that using acute meds more than 2 days/week may lead to worsening chronic headaches.

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