Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 15:49
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those pain pills you think help your migraines? Take too many and you could make them worse. Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more pain medication. A very unlucky fraction even get what's called chronic migraine, where they're in pain more days than not, and new research suggests certain prescription painkillers, including narcotics, increase that risk....