What is Chronic Migraine?
If it is present more than 15 days a month, it is called “chronic migraine”. This condition affecting 2% of all people and 10% of migraineurs, usually appears in middle aged people but it is possible to see it in children and young people as well.
Chronic migraine in young patients —who have continuous pain during high school— usually develops because of wisdom teeth trying to come in. On the other hand in middle aged people it is mostly because of the combination of migraine attacks and tension type headache.
The relation between drug use and continuous pain should be taken into consideration in chronic migraine patients. Since drug use has an important role in turning an acute migraine chronic, this condition is also known as the rebound headache or analgesic overuse.
What is common among chronic migraine patients is that the attacks becoming more frequent over time because of increasing drug use. Eventually this leads to a vicious circle of constant drug intake and constant headache.
Treatment for Chronic Migraine
The treatment should begin with neural therapy in chronic migraine patients and underlying causes of migraine or tension-type should be fixed with Gokmen Approach. Drugs, taking the form of an addiction, should not be abandoned abruptly at the beginning. If the autonomic nervous system gets organized and the reasons of the pain get detected, patient will stop taking them by themselves.
Do not worry if you have constant headaches. Because it is treatable, but not with drugs. The first thing you need to do is getting rid of the drugs and Gokmen Approach can provide that.