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Shelles

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When prescribing any headache therapy, appropriate use of medications needs to be discussed to prevent medication-overuse headaches. A clinical characteristic of medication-overuse headaches is that they:
 
  1. Are increasing in frequency
  2. Are increasing in intensity
  3. Recur when medication wears off
  4. Begin to cluster into a pattern

Question 2

Preventative therapy for cluster headaches includes:
 
  1. Massage or relaxation therapy
  2. Ergotamine nightly before bed
  3. Intranasal lidocaine four times a day during clusters of headaches
  4. Propranolol (Inderal) daily



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Answer to Question 1

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Shelles

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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