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panthermom,   I'm so sorry you're in this situation. If you're in a cycle of rebound headache, aka medication overuse headache, you willl have to stop using that medication as well as other medications like it to break the cycle. Taking Migraine abortive meds such as the triptans or ergotamines or any kind of pain med more than two or three days a week can make matters worse by causing medication overuse headache (MOH), aka rebound. See Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires for more information on this. Your doctor might be able to prescribe somethingto help you through this, but you'll need to be careful that you don't start taking something else that can perpetuate the cycle.   Once you get the rebound cycle broken, you'll of course want to address the increase in your Migraines. When you have a period of either a long Migraine or many Migraines that aren't responding to medications (referred to as intractable Migraines), there are some IV infusion treatments that often work quite well to break that type of cycle. You can read more in IV Treatment of Refractory Migraines.   Hope this helps, Teri    
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