ANA Discussion Forum
Post-Treatment => Headaches => Topic started by: Karen on December 03, 2009, 07:05:07 pm
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Has anyone tried over the counter migrane mediicine? Sometimes my AN side of my head hurts and that side of my face. I wonder if like a migrane med. would help. Since it is due to nerve damage over the counter Ibuprofin doesn't help. Karen
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Karen,
First you need to see a professional to see if you are actually having migraines. OTC migraine medicine is just Tylenol or Ibuprophen with caffeine in it, so you might as well take a tylenol and have a cup of coffee and save yourself a bunch of money! Since my headache specialist took me off of all caffeine, I doubt if OTC meds are really good for migraine. What I take is Imitrex, which is now available generic, called sumatriptan. It decreases the pain and shortens the duration if I take it when I first have symptoms. I used to inject it, but now I'm down to just the oral 100 mg ones.
Good Luck and Brainwreck Begone!
Capt Deb