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Question: My wife is 21 yrs old. She is getting headache. Please advise good medicine.
Brief Answer:
Take drugs as advised and provide more details
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
Headache in young age is most commonly due to tension type or migraine.
Please provide other features of headache.
1) Duration of headache
2) Location of headache, unilateral or bilateral
3) Intensity of headache
4) throbbing pain or Bursting pain
5) Aggravating factors like missing meal and sleep disturbances.
6) Releiving factors like sleep and rest or pain killers.
7) Nausea or vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound
8) family history of migraine
9) Any fever, loss of consciousness, seizures, visual loss, ear discharge
10) Any pregnancy
For symptomatic relief take pain killers like paracetamol or Naproxen.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Provide more details as discussed.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Take drugs as advised and provide more details
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have gone through your question and understand your concerns.
Headache in young age is most commonly due to tension type or migraine.
Please provide other features of headache.
1) Duration of headache
2) Location of headache, unilateral or bilateral
3) Intensity of headache
4) throbbing pain or Bursting pain
5) Aggravating factors like missing meal and sleep disturbances.
6) Releiving factors like sleep and rest or pain killers.
7) Nausea or vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound
8) family history of migraine
9) Any fever, loss of consciousness, seizures, visual loss, ear discharge
10) Any pregnancy
For symptomatic relief take pain killers like paracetamol or Naproxen.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Provide more details as discussed.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Neurologist
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Sonia Raina
1. Irregular timing
2. Behind ears both Sides.
3. Sometime severe some time normal
4. Throbbing pain
5. Yes Irregular meals and sleep disturbed as she has 3 month baby and she stays awake in night times.
6. After little Sleep she gets relief
7. No nausea.
8. No
9.no
10. No.
She gets it when ever she thinks a lot on marital miss understanding.
2. Behind ears both Sides.
3. Sometime severe some time normal
4. Throbbing pain
5. Yes Irregular meals and sleep disturbed as she has 3 month baby and she stays awake in night times.
6. After little Sleep she gets relief
7. No nausea.
8. No
9.no
10. No.
She gets it when ever she thinks a lot on marital miss understanding.
Brief Answer:
Take treatment and precautions as advised
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
This headache is stress aggravated migraine.
You should get her consulted with a neurologist.
For treatment take Flunarizine and amitryptiline initially for migraine prophylaxis. You need doctors prescription for these drugs. Amitryptiline is associated with some sedation and should be stopped if problem occurs.
Take timely food, adequate sleep and rest.
Pain killers like paracetamol or Naproxen may be taken when severe.
Improvement may take few weeks and treatment under a neurologist will be beneficial.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Take treatment and precautions as advised
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
This headache is stress aggravated migraine.
You should get her consulted with a neurologist.
For treatment take Flunarizine and amitryptiline initially for migraine prophylaxis. You need doctors prescription for these drugs. Amitryptiline is associated with some sedation and should be stopped if problem occurs.
Take timely food, adequate sleep and rest.
Pain killers like paracetamol or Naproxen may be taken when severe.
Improvement may take few weeks and treatment under a neurologist will be beneficial.
Hope you found the answer helpful.
Regards
Dr N Kumar
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Deepak
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