Last week, June 1-7, was the 15th annual National Headache Awareness week, which is sponsored by the National Headache Foundation (NHF). I spent the week aware of the fact that I had a near constant headache (I have chronic tension and migraine headaches and last week was a doozy for some reason). “One of our primary goals during National Headache Awareness Week is to gain recognition of headache pain as a real and legitimate condition,” said Dr. Seymour Diamond, Executive Chairman of the NHF. “Over 45 million Americans get chronic, recurring headaches. Of this number, nearly 30 million have migraine headaches.”
The theme of this year’s National Headache Awareness Week was “Get a Head S.T.A.R.T. on Your Headaches,” which calls attention to five strategies for effective headache management. The five strategies are:
1. Seek diagnosis. You can’t get the right treatment without the right diagnosis. Do […]
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If you take one of the “triptan” medications for migraine headaches, you could be at risk for developing serotonin syndrome, which is a potentially life-threatening neurologic condition. And your risk of serotonin syndrome increases if you also take one of the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) or SSNRI (selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants (see below for the names of all these drugs). The symptoms of serotonin syndrome are often described as a triad of clinical manifestations:
• Mental status changes: confusion, agitation, mania, hallucinations, headache, coma
• Autonomic effects: nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure, diarrhea, racing heartbeat, fever
• Neuromuscular effects: tremor, muscle twitching, shivering, overactive reflexes
There are eight triptan medications currently approved for the treatment of migraine:
• Amerge [naratriptan]
• Axert [almotriptan]
• Frova [frovatriptan]
• Imitrex [sumatriptan]
• Maxalt [rizatriptan]
• Relpex [eletriptan]
• Treximet [sumatriptan and naproxen combination]
• Zomig [zolmitriptan]
Triptans all work in […]
Original post by natalieb and weightlossopinions.com
If you take one of the “triptan” medications for migraine headaches, you could be at risk for developing serotonin syndrome, which is a potentially life-threatening neurologic condition. And your risk of serotonin syndrome increases if you also take one of the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) or SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) anti-depressants (see below for the names of all these drugs). The symptoms of serotonin syndrome are often described as a triad of clinical manifestations:
• Mental status changes: confusion, agitation, mania, hallucinations, headache, coma
• Autonomic effects: nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure, diarrhea, racing heartbeat, fever
• Neuromuscular effects: tremor, muscle twitching, shivering, overactive reflexes
There are eight triptan medications currently approved for the treatment of migraine:
• Amerge [naratriptan]
• Axert [almotriptan]
• Frova [frovatriptan]
• Imitrex [sumatriptan]
• Maxalt [rizatriptan]
• Relpex [eletriptan]
• Treximet [sumatriptan and naproxen combination]
• Zomig [zolmitriptan]
Triptans all work in the […]
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