How to Get Rid of a Headache
The goal of treatment is to reduce the frequency, severity and duration of a migraine patient. The choice of a preventive strategy or a pain-relieving strategy depends on the frequency and severity of headaches, the degree of disability the headaches cause and other medical conditions.
OTC medications are headache often effective relievers. try acetaminophen (Tylenol), aspirin or ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) for tension headaches. Migraine headaches may respond to aspirin, naproxen (Aleve), or combination of drugs such as Excedrin Migraine. prescription drugs used for migraine headaches include ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, ergotamine with caffeine (Cafergot), isometheptene (Midrin), and triptans like sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), almotriptan (Axert), andzolmitriptan (Zomig). Sometimes medications to relieve nausea and vomiting are helpful for other migraine symptoms.
Prevention includes taking prescribed medications, avoid or minimize the causes, and learning self-help measures, such as biofeedback or relaxation exercises. If your doctor suggests medication, you should realize that it may take several weeks to be effective and can have side effects. Therefore, you must be patient and work with your doctor to determine the optimal treatment.
Treatment may be as simple as avoiding the headache caused or may require biofeedback, psychological counseling and programs for behavior modification, in addition to drug therapy. Often improve sleep therapy is needed as a common sleep disorder is migraine.