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Introduction

If you are suffering from headache or if there are any indications of headache, you will immediately go for a pain killer. A pain killer offers an immediate relief for rare headaches. But certainly there will be a boundary for this. If you are taking pain killers for more than thrice a week, you are in fact causative for those headaches, instead of reducing them. These kind of frequent headaches are called as Rebound headaches.

These frequent headaches will start if you take the pain killers very frequently as informed thrice a week, going against the doctor’s prescription. Shortly, you will become accustomed to the headache medicines. Until your head began to damage, you may not understand that you are using the medication more than the prescribed amount. To prevent these rebound headaches, there is only one approach that is to discontinue using the headache medicines.

Signs and Symptoms

These Rebound headaches are also known as Medicines overuse headaches – likely to take place each and every day of the week, occasionally it will wake you from the sleep before time and remains for whole day. The headache may be some times more brutal at the beginning when you stop talking the medicines.

Also, there are many other indications for these Rebound headaches. They are:

• Recollection problems.
• Nervousness.
• Resistive ness, bad temper.
• Vomiting or Sickness

Causes

Almost all the pain killers will lead to Rebound headaches. But some of the pain killers are most possible for these rebound head aches.

• Effortless pain killers: General medicines such as Tylenol, Ibuprofen and aspirin lead to these Rebound headaches, if you use them over dosage .
• Mixture of pain killers: Main culprits for these Rebound headaches are the over-the-counter pain killers such as Excedrin, aspirin and some more.
• Migraine medicines: Different kinds of Migraine medicines are also linked with these kinds of headaches such as Ergomar, Zomig and others.

Prevention

To prevent from these kinds of Rebound headaches, only solution is to take care of you.

• Keep away from headache generation: If you are not sure of what are all the causes for these headaches, maintain a dairy and note down all the details related to these kinds of headaches. When was it started? What are all the activities you are performing at that time? What kind of food you have taken at that day? In what way you sleep? How much time did this pain lasts for?
• Acquire a sufficient sleep: Maintain the same time for going to bed and waking up, even if it is weekend. If you are not relaxed at the bed, don’t try to sleep forcefully. Watch TV or read some books until you are tired and get a natural sleep.
• Don’t avoid taking food: Begin the day with some good breakfast, take lunch in afternoon and Dinner at night almost the same time.