Posted in Treatments, side effects, tagged addiction, drug dependence, Fiorinal, medication overuse headache, medications, migraine, migraine disease, pain medication, Percocet on January 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This post is in response to Arabella’s post regarding the difference between medication overuse headache (MOH) and addiction. We are both responding to redOrbit’s article Migraine Meds Can Become Addictive (BTW, the original AP article is better. Thanks, Parin). What followed was not on addiction, but on medication overuse headaches (MOH) or rebound headaches. These [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged addiction, chronic pain, Imitrex, migraine, misinformation, naproxen, pain, pain medication, Paula Kamen, treximet on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Good News: April 15, 2008 GlaxoSmithKline has received FDA approval for a new drug treatment for acute migraine with and without aura. This “new” drug is a mixed bag. It is called Treximet and is a combination of sumatriptan (Imitrex 85 mg) and 500 mg naproxen sodium. Studies have shown that more migraine sufferers received [...]
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