That's right, the very drugs people take to get rid of a
headache or migraine can start causing them. When you take pain relievers on a regular
basis for more than two or three days each week, they can make the pain
receptors more sensitive than usual. This means when the pain medicine wears
off, these hyper-sensitive receptors turn on to produce a new headache. You're
then going down the slippery slope of more pain medicines followed by more
headaches and migraines.
To stop this vicious cycle you have to stop the medicine
which means you're going to go through a severe and painful detox that will
last for about three days.
Since even medicine like aspirin and Tylenol type substances
can trigger the rebound effect, Dr. Fred Sheftell, the director and founder of
The New England Center for Headache, believes the situation to be so serious
that he thinks there should be labels on these and other drugs warning of the
rebound effect.
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