Author Question: When prescribing any headache therapy, appropriate use of medications needs to be discussed to ... (Read 24 times)

Shelles · **on:** Jul 24, 2018

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