I agree. You hear about this rebound from time to time. Oh, you have daily or constant headaches do you take ......, oh, in that case it MUST be rebound. Yeah like right. If I don't take something for the pain when it first starts it gets to a point where I am throwing up from it and NOTHING will get rid of it. I think that people who say that have possibly never really experienced the problem themselves. Maybe they would like to walk in my shoes, your shoes, or some of the other people here who have constant headaches and multiple migraines. Would they be so quick to say it then? I somehow doubt it.
Hope that you know that you are not alone in thinking this way.
And if you can't rant here where can you? LOL

Since I was the first responder to mention "rebound", sorry, but I do take offense. To suggest that anyone in CP would be so callous to imply that someone was causing their own pain is just plain wrong! I as well as the other few who mentioned it, were just stating that it COULD be a cause, it surely wasn't meant to be written in stone. There were many other replies besides that ONE. I suffered from migraines for 10 yrs, as I stated, and sometimes that did happen to me. And since I had'nt (thank god) had migraines in many years, I suggested right off that she go to the migraine discussion board for help. You already stated your feeling about this in the original topic post and that was fine, but when you imply that I, or anyone else, thought it was her fault, I have to draw the line.

We are all here to help each other and offer ANY suggestions we can and it was nothing more than that. I have a friend here on DS that just recently moved. Her journal was full of messages to be careful due to her CP that she did'nt hurt herself. Does that mean if she had lifted too many boxes and got down that we would have said too bad, you did this yourself? No one feels that way. We would be the first to comfort her and in now way place blame. We have All had that happen to us too many times to even think of doing it to each other.

Suggestions are just that, and the rebound theory was just ONE of MANY suggestions and I think you took this one out of context. We were just trying to be helpful and it wasn't meant to be taken any other way.

The remark about causing your own pain was more referring to the media than to here. Like I said, I realize that rebound is a very real problem. It has to be recognized, yes. But many times I'm seeing it as the main solution.

And I point people to look at rebound too. A lot of people take Fioricet and don't realize it is banned in some countries because it is deemed more likely than any other pain med to cause rebound.


It wasn't one post that brought this out. I'm sorry if you felt I was taking out on you, or pointing fingers at other members of your forum. As I said at the end, that wasn't my intent.

I apologize.

I hear ya!
I know that rebound speech gets me too. Sometimes maybe it is a rebound, lots of times it isn't, the point is it STILL HURTS!!!
I too got to a point when triptans did not work any longer. It has been a year and I am trying them again so we will see if they work again or not.
I, like you, have tried many things on the "master list" for preventative therapy. E.G. Topmax, Gabapentin, Amitryptaline, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Verapamil, Inderal, Maxeran, stemetil, Zomig, Axert, Amerge, Relpax, DHE etc. The list continues...but we don't have all day.
I am with you on your frustration on this one. I have been treated like crap from the medical side since the beginning of all of this. I did not get headaches for all of my life until about 2.5 years ago when another painful condition was not treated properly. I too did not even touch pain meds until about 6 months ago at home and only and about a year ago was the first time I had been given tried pain meds in an ER setting. Before that I had been given Toradol and Gravol, maxeran and stemetil for ER treatment. If that didn't work...oh well I went home waited 48 more hours and tried a different triptan. At least that's what was recommended I do if those ER "fixes" did not work. Sometimes pain meds are all a person has left for the moment.
Medication aside for the the moment ....the point is that although others are "just trying to help" it does become frustrating to keep hearing rebound headaches and med over-usuage....over and over and over and over. It is also frustrating to hear try "this" (insert name of whatever medication/treatment or herbal supplement here) and when you say you have tried that and it did work/stopped working/is not working whatever and the listing of things keeps going. I am not adverse to trying new things however when I have been in pain for a long time, the last thing I need is for someone to try to "re-invent" the wheel by going through a list of meds to try.

I would love nothing more for there to be something I could take that would prevent my migraines and other chronic pain. I would love not to ever go to an ER again. I would love to have a life that didn't revolve around whether or not I am going to have a headache....because one never knows. I would love for non-narcotic treatment to be developed that works for me when I do get a intractable migraine. Sometimes that is just what the problem is, not a rebound headache, but an intractable migraine.
I know what you are trying to say. My reply maybe didn't make much sense ....but my bottom line is that I understand what you mean. I'm with you!

I understand what ur saying and I wish u well on ur journey to find a med/s that work for u. I have some whoppers of headpain myself and wish that there was more out there to help. I can't take neurontin(allergic),can't take hydrocodone(doesn't do anything for me), Morhine ER (worked but amde me to stoned to function) I am now on Methadone not just for headpain but for all my pain...Just to much to deal with..I have MS and chronic pain for the last 4 yrs
so belieive I understand.
Hugz
Morgaine

I had the rebound idea from my neurologist and he always said to stay away from advil, pain meds of all sorts and many other over the counter meds. I was left to become a hanging pain patient. I was frustrated, went to the holistic meds, accupuncture treatments, chiropracter as well. I got the trigger workbook manual and did the muscle spasm and TENS unit, hot tub now handy. So many thngs tried and feel back to the notion I would just find something that would kill the pain, or dull it and life a lifestyle that would be comfortable enough to be with life as is. I have had to take pain meds and found the Kadian, 30 mg. has kept the migraine, headaches away for the most part. If I become stressed the volume goes up and I have other pain meds to treat the break throughs. Whatever it takes to continue with my life is the best ever thing to do. I do understand the rebound and what it means for those who have managed otherwise, so the word out on it isn't bad, it doesn't kill the messenger, it just doesn't always kill the pain. Best of everything to keep the pain at a dull roar, or better yet, none at all!! Yippee!!