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Headaches & Migraines News & Information

9 Ways to Get Rid of a Headache

Rest in a Dark, Quiet Room: Stress is one of the main causes of headaches. Relieving tense muscles may help calm tension headaches, the most common type of headache. If you have one, you may also feel extra sensitive to light and sound. Rest or sit in a dimly lit room. Close your eyes and try to relax your back, neck, and shoulders. Try Caffeine: It may help ease tension headache symptoms by helping pain relief drugs work better and faster. Caffeine is often an ingredient in pain medications. See how you respond, it can be a headache trigger for some.

FDA approves new kind of non-opioid pain medication,
1st of its kind in 20 years

The FDA has approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat moderate to severe acute pain. The drug, called Journavx (suzetrigine) and manufactured by biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is a non-opioid painkiller, which doesn’t have addictive properties, unlike opioids often used for this type of pain. This is the first class of non-opioid pain medication approved to treat moderate to severe acute pain approved in more than 20 years.

14 Types of Headaches and
How to Treat Them

There are many different types of headaches, including tension headaches, migraine headaches, ice pick headaches, and others. The cause, duration, and intensity can vary by type. Many of us are familiar with some form of the throbbing, uncomfortable, and distracting pain of a headache. There are different types of headaches. The common types include:ice pick headache thunderclap headache allergy or sinus headache tension headache, cluster headache, migraine headache, hemicrania continua.

Which migraine medications
are most helpful?

When researchers compared helpfulness of other drugs to ibuprofen, they found: Triptans scored five to six times more helpful. The highest ranked drug, eletriptan, helped 78% of the time. Other triptans, including zolmitriptan (Zomig) and sumatriptan (Imitrex), were helpful 74% and 72% of the time, respectively. In practice, notes Dr. Loder, eletriptan seems to be just a tad better than the other triptans. Ergots were rated as three times more helpful than ibuprofen. Anti-emetics were 2.5 times as helpful as ibuprofen.

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