Headache Help

A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medications That Relieve Them

Lawrence Robbins, Susan Lang, Susan S. Lang

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780618044368
• eBook ISBN:
  9780544341494
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Many people who suffer from headaches never consult a doctor, believing that no help is available, while others become frustrated and give up the search for relief.
Fully revised and updated, this valuable book can save you time and trouble and help you stop the pain. It describes the full range of treatment options for migraines, cluster headaches, and tension headaches. It includes easy-to-understand information on the actions and side effects of hundreds of over-the-counter and prescription medications that prevent or abort headaches or dull the pain of a headache in progress.
Special highlights:
Details on the medications that have revolutionized migraine treatment
Discussion of how hormones affect migraines
Quick-reference guides to the medications that are most likely to work for your particular condition
Helpful suggestions on how to describe your headache to your physician
Hard-to-come-by information on headaches in children, teens, women, and people over fifty
Alternative treatments, including herbs and acupuncture
Self-help strategies such as relaxation techniques and biofeedback
A national index of headache clinics and organizations

Index

Abortive medications, [>]; for adolescents’ headaches, [>]–[>]; for children’s headaches, [>]–[>]; for cluster headaches, [>]–[>]; for migraines, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; for tension headaches, [>]–[>]

Academy for Guided Imagery, [>]

Acceptance, [>]

Acetaminophen, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], Appendix B

Acetaminophen with codeine, [>], [>]

Aciphex, [>]

Aconite, [>]

Actifed, Appendix B, Appendix C

Acupressure, [>]

Acupressure Institute, [>]

Acupuncture, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Adderall, Appendix C

Addiction, [>]–[>], [>]; to abortive medications, [>]; to butalbital compounds, [>], [>]; to cocaine, [>]; vs. dependency, [>], [>], [>]; to methylphenidate, [>]; to narcotics, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; to stimulants, [>]; and tension-headache medications, [>]–[>]

Adipex-P, Appendix C

Adolescents’ headaches, [>]–[>]; case study on, [>]–[>]; counseling for, [>]. See also Children’s headaches

Advil, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], Appendix B, Appendix C

After-surgery headaches, [>]

Alcohol, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Aldactone, Appendix C

Alesse-21 / [>], Appendix C

Aleve, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], Appendix B, Appendix C; and Cox-2 inhibitor, [>]. See also Naproxen

Alka-Seltzer, Appendix B, Appendix C

Allerest, Appendix C

Allergy headaches, [>], [>]–[>]

Allergy-Sinus Comtrex, Appendix B

Altace, Appendix C

Alternative headache treatments, [>]–[>]. See also Self-help strategies

Alternative medicine organizations, [>]–[>]

Altitude, and migraines, [>]

Ambien, Appendix C

Amerge, Appendix C; for children’s and adolescents’ headaches, [>], [>], [>]; for cluster headaches, [>], [>]; for exertional headaches, [>]; and MAO inhibitors, [>]; for migraines, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [&g...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Introduction
• Preface
• Understanding the Modern Approach
• Helping Yourself
• Being a Good Health Consumer
• Recognizing Migraines
• Treating Migraines in Progress
• Preventing Migraines
• Women, Hormones, and Migraines
• Treating Tension Headaches in Progress
• Preventing Tension Headaches
• Understanding and Treating Cluster Headaches
• Headaches in Children and Adolescents
• Headaches in People Over Fifty
• Less Common Headaches and Treatments
• More Alternatives
• Appendix A: Headache-Related Organizations and Publications
• Appendix B: Over-the-Counter Headache Medications
• Appendix C: Medications and What’s in Them
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• About the Authors