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Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Millie,
Have you tried an NSAIDs? Any narcotic type pain relief for headaches will usually make it worse, assuming the headache is from tension or muscle issues. Anti-inflamatories usually help more. Bextra is great if you haven't tried it.
With the patch or any narcotic type pain medication, anti-nausea medicine should be taken with it. One of the key benefits of the patch is that once the body adjusts to it, much of the nausea and higher dose specific headaches you get with short acting meds do not occur with the patch. Alternating with the patch and without will usually make it less effective in terms of loopiness, nausea, etc.
Ed
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