I need to stop taking headache pills to get better…Medications, Headache, and Treatment Effectiveness Checked
Mar 19, 2025
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When patients with medication and polyphonia immediately discontinued the headache medication and received appropriate preventive treatment, the frequency and intensity of headaches were significantly reduced in 3 months.
Drug overdose refers to a case in which a ▲headache patient experiences a headache for more than 15 days a month, and ▲an acute treatment for headache treatment lasts for more than 3 months. For general painkillers such as aspirin and acetaminophen, it is considered drug overdose when taken for more than 15 days per month, and for migraine-specific drugs such as tryptan, it is considered drug overdose when taken for more than 10 days per month.
A team led by Professor Park Hong-kyun of the Department of Neurology at Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital analyzed the three-month treatment progress of 309 patients with drug and polyphonic headaches at seven neurological clinics in Korea from April 2020 to March 2022.
As a result, the average number of headache days per month decreased from 24 days before treatment to 12 days after treatment in the patient group who reduced the acute treatment that had been overdosed. In the completely discontinued patient group, the number of headache days was reduced by 15 days.
On the other hand, patients who maintained acute treatment overuse tended to have a persistent headache, and some showed worsening symptoms.
Professor Park Hong-kyun explained, "'Drugs and polyphonia patients have a vicious cycle in which the more frequent they take headache pills, the more severe their headaches are.'"
For the treatment of patients with drug and headache, the research team recommended that patients stop using existing headache drugs and actively consider preventive treatment.
As a treatment method, ▲ Botox injection (Onabotulinum toxin A) ▲ anti-CGRP monoclonal antibody (migrain vaccination) ▲ oral prophylactic drug was used.
Patients who received prophylactic treatment tended to decrease the number of days and intensity of headaches more rapidly than those who did not. The researchers say, "It is a priority to stop taking headache pills, but appropriate preventive treatment and lifestyle correction should be combined depending on the patient's condition."," he stressed.
Drugs and migraines are also a disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified as an important public health issue, and are on the rise, especially among chronic headache patients.
Professor Park Hong-kyun said, `If you have chronic headaches, you need to check the frequency of taking headache pills first"It is important to make an appropriate treatment plan through consultation with experts rather than taking medicine unconditionally" he advised.
The findings were published in the recent issue of the British international journal Scientific Reports.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
