10 Reasons Why Headache Patients Don't Get Better

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10 Reasons Why Headache Patients Don't Get Better

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Reason No. 1: Misdiagnosis Most headache patients don't get better because there is a failure to recognize migraine is not a type of headache.

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Reason No. 2: Relying On Quick Fixes The biggest problem with quick fixes is that they create a phenomenon called rebound.

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Reason No. 3: Rebounding Rebound means that you have a headache, you take a quick fix - an acute headache remedy and you get relief temporarily.

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Reason No. 4: Not Avoiding Headache-Triggers The key is to reduce exposure to the avoidable triggers and raise the threshold for activation of migraine by taking preventive medication every day.

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Reason No. 5: Not Taking Medications Properly Preventive medications are drugs that you take on a scheduled daily basis to try to prevent your headaches. Not everybody with headaches needs to take preventive medication.

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Reason No. 6: Having Unrealistic Goals This is an uncommon problem. Most people who have chronic headaches don't expect that they're not going to have any headaches for the rest of their lives.

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Reason No. 7: Having A Hidden Agenda Does your headache problem serve some purpose that you're not willing to give it up? Learn more about this problem.

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Reason No. 8: Having A Co-Existing Disorder There's an important relationship between migraine and depression.

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Reason No. 9: Having An Intractable Headache Problem It is very rare that a person has a truly intractable headache problem. In most cases, it's just a failure of previous treatment.

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Reason No. 10: Not Understanding Your Headache Problem The right direction to understanding your headache problem is to know the preventive treatment for migraine.

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Deanna