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Have One Sided Headache, Vomiting, Worst During Cycles, Relief With Analgesics, Less With Eye Exercise. What Is It?

Hi i am a dr myself. Had been having always left sided headache partially relieved wid analgesics. Used to get less freq of headaches with proper eye ms exercises. Now freq has increased to almost daily sometimes associ wid vomiti, cannot tolerate sunlight at all, worst during cycles. Is it migraine ?? Borderline ht, occ. sinus tachycardia. What drugs best advised ?? Now analgesics hv started causing ulcerative type of stomachache.
Thu, 27 Jun 2013
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glad to help you.I think the type of headache you are facing with it is migraine and you need prophylaxis to prevent the atatcks.Preventive migraine medications are considered effective if they reduce the frequency or severity of the migraine attacks by at least 50%.Guidelines are fairly consistent in rating topiramate, divalproex/sodium valproate, propranolol, and metoprolol as having the highest level of evidence for first-line use.Recommendations regarding effectiveness varied however for gabapentin.Timolol is also effective for migraine prevention and in reducing migraine attack frequency and severity, while frovatriptan is effective for prevention of menstrual migraine.Amitriptyline and venlafaxine are probably also effective.Botox has been found to be useful in those with chronic migraines but not those with episodic ones.thank you.
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Have One Sided Headache, Vomiting, Worst During Cycles, Relief With Analgesics, Less With Eye Exercise. What Is It?

hello dr, glad to help you.I think the type of headache you are facing with it is migraine and you need prophylaxis to prevent the atatcks.Preventive migraine medications are considered effective if they reduce the frequency or severity of the migraine attacks by at least 50%.Guidelines are fairly consistent in rating topiramate, divalproex/sodium valproate, propranolol, and metoprolol as having the highest level of evidence for first-line use.Recommendations regarding effectiveness varied however for gabapentin.Timolol is also effective for migraine prevention and in reducing migraine attack frequency and severity, while frovatriptan is effective for prevention of menstrual migraine.Amitriptyline and venlafaxine are probably also effective.Botox has been found to be useful in those with chronic migraines but not those with episodic ones.thank you.