How To Get Rid of Your Headaches

Finally, there is the general pain management approach to migraine nausea. This approach is not specific to migraines, but to pain in general. There are basically two types of pain medications: Non-narcotic and narcotic pain medication. Non-narcotic pain medications consist of anti-inflammatory medications called NSAIDS. These are the aspirin-like compounds found in prescription strength and over the counter at a local pharmacy. The public is well versed with the brand names like Motrin, Nuprin and Aleve. I will not go into any further detail here. Another major non-narcotic medication, but is technically not an NSAID, is Tylenol. Again, the public is knowledgeable about this drug.

The narcotic pain medications are the other pain management method to migraine pain relief. Vicodin and Lorcet are perhaps the most familiar first-line narcotic pain medications. There are tighter prescription controls on doctors for other narcotics like Percodan, Darvon, Equigesic, and Oxycontin, just to name a few. There are many, many narcotic medications available. Narcotics are almost never advisable unless there is an emergency room situation whereby this is the initial presentation of a migraine headache or a dramatic worsening compared to past headaches. Some unfortunate sufferers of cluster headaches require narcotics. Many have committed suicide.

Once you go down the road of requiring narcotic pain medications for a medical condition and find what the diagnosis is that does not resolve, addiction and tolerance is a near certainly. There are numerous political and legal implications for both the doctor and the patient when this occurs. Virtually all 50 state boards of medicine that regulate doctors and grant their licenses to practice medicine are taking a strong look at narcotic-prescribing habits of doctors. This is why doctors are extremely reluctant to prescribe narcotics almost under any situation. As a result, many people who require these medications cannot obtain them.