Most people will go to any length imaginable in order to make the pain associated with a migraine headache go away. They are often relegated to taking an assortment of prescription medications to ease the pain and possibly prevent a migraine attack from occurring. Despite the relative success of these drugs, many migraine sufferers find they cannot take them because of the severe side effects associated with them. Unfortunately, most individuals must take something in order to combat the migraine because its effects often result in being absent from work, school, and other activities – which is why people with migraines often end up applying for social security disability. Two new studies published in the journal Headache, however, give some hope to those migraine sufferers who simply cannot take or do not respond well to the traditional drug therapies. Each of these studies concluded that taking naproxen (or Aleve) and acetaminophen (or Tylenol) reduced migraine pain and recurrence, as well as other migraine symptoms, such as nausea.
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Filed under Migraine pain management, Migraine research, migraine treatment by on Apr 16th, 2010. Comment.
