Diagnosed with Complex Migraines

Be careful of the Hydrocondone.  That is how the ER's starting treating my wife, and then later they started treating her like a drug attick.  As if she was a crack head, but they were the ones that gave her the drugs. 

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Hello, and welcome to MyMigraineConnection.com!

Was the ER able to get rid of your pain? One of the most important things you can do is to get an accurate diagnosis. This simplifies matters and makes it easier for people to get information and treatment. Doctors usually go by the gold standard for diagnosis, the International Headache Society's International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II), and under ICHD-II, there is no diagnosis of "complex Migraine." It's more a descriptive term, but we do see it used and doctors use it differently. Therefore, it really doesn't tell anyone what type of Migraine you actually have. You can read more about this in Ocular, Optical, and Opthalmic Migraines and The Type of Migraine Does Matter. 

Hydrocodone is a opioid pain reliever containing a combination of acetaminophen and codeine that may not be the best first choice for Migraine pain. Also if taken more than two to three days a week could make matters worse by causing medication overuse headache (MOH), aka rebound. See Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires for more information on this.

Another important note, especially for men, in a small study they found that

ANY use of opioids or barbiturates and frequent use of triptans and NSIADs are associated with increased risk of transformed Migraine. See Transformed Migraine - Risk Increased by Some Medications for more information on this.  

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