Hi, Yvette. I have exactly what you have, chronic daily migraines. I know for sure I have rebound headaches from my daily morphine, which I've been on for 2 years. Before that, it was Percocet for a year. This happened after a Botox migraine treatment from hell by my doc. It's been downhill ever since.

I would love to get off the daily morphine. I'm on two 15 mg tabs a day, cut in half to equal 4 doses. I realize it's a very small dose but I'm a lightweight with most meds. I'm on a pain contract with my regular MD who isn't a pain specialist (my Kaiser doesn't have one); she just wants to give me pills, which she claims I will be on for the rest of my life. We've tried many, many other options.

The morphine doesn't really help with my Degenerative Disk Disease in my neck, nor my arthritis, severe fibromyalgia, or osteoporosis. It takes the edge off my migraine and cluster headaches for a while, then I take another half when my headache starts coming back. I'm never going to get off this crap.

I follow you on another DS board and admire the way you handle your chronic pain with such strength, not giving in to the meds we migraine sufferers know will only make it worse in the long run.

Sorry, went off on a long explanation here just to say, yes, I am a migraineur and a rebounder too.

Take care.
Lynn

sorry yikes that you cannot take pain meds....so what do you do for pain? Over the counter meds?

Head Rebound pain is more prevalent when taking narcotics, or even OTC meds like Tylenol. It's the hardest to control also. If you have migraines the best bet is to be on a preventative treatment course from a Headache Specialist/Neurologist with something allotted for onset, usually a Triptan, these don't normally cause rebound pain.

If you get your timing right you might be able to schedule your Triptan before you use pain meds for your back that would offset the head rebound pain. I use Imitrex Injections, Tordol Injections and take a daily Migraine preventative. I have Cluster Migraines that last for days, but I also have multiple other CP causing issues and have to take strong narcotics for those, so it's a balancing act to get everything taken in the right order.

Have you ever tried drugs like maxalt or imitrex for your migraines they have been a god send for me

I'm on everything for migraines. I'm on quite a few preventatives, which I take everyday. When the migraines starts to get into the "it's getting bad" category, I have the abortive. The one I'm on is Relpax. No other triptan works for me. Along with the relpax, I have to take thorazine for my nausea, and xanax to try to make me not care so much about the pain.

But narcotics don't fit in there anywhere. There is no timing it just right. It's not a matter of taking a triptan first. Which I hate because I get A LOT of back pain, plus I get A LOT of pain from my arthritis. Prescription NSAIDS don't help.

The rebound pain isn't always in my head though. Back in the day when I was taking a good amount of percadan for my back (shortly after my accident), It felt like it was my back wan't getting better. I would take drug holidays and I would only use Ice on my back, and it felt so much better. Then my doctor told me not to do that and to take the medicine again, and sure enough, the pain felt worse. I considered that rebound pain. Has anyone ever experienced that before?

..I think that " rebound" effects..
Are more.. when your body reacts the opposite of what the Med does when you stop the Med.
So..Yes.. like .. when pain is actually worse when you stop a medication..
Than if you hadn't had the Med ( this applies when the condition causing the pain hasn't improved or worsened.

It's been a couple of years.. so..I can't remember which opiate caused it..
But..I remember coming on here making a post about how scared I was.. because I NEEDED the opiates.. and.. I was having opiate-induce headaches.

When they accidently nicked my spine in an injection..
I was given Butalbitol ( sp?).. for the headache that caused
Turned out..
That helped with the ( fairly constant) headache I was getting from opiates.

Sounds like you may already have tried everything. ? But..
I thought I would mention this just in case it was one not tried.
It's a combination of firinol (sp?) , tylenol ( I think) and caffeine.
Anyway..
For whatever reason.. a pretty low dose three times a day does the trick on this medication headaches for me.

Sorry if this is kinda all over the place..
I'm not thinking to clearly.
Hugs
jc

Did you say you're on THORAZINE for nausea?!?!?!?!

Goddamn it..
I meant.. Fiorinol before

Hello

So sorry your having these headaches that is so debilating
Sounds like you've tried all modern medicine has to offer
Have you ever tried medical marajuana ?
It's not legal where I am so???
I have heard is can help and its natural,
Just a thought?
Peace
Michael

JC, yes, I'm on thorazine for nausea. For some reason, I've found that only headache specialist seem to know that thorazine works for that. I remember when I broke my back and I was in the hospital. I had such a migraine, and the doctors told me they would get me the medicine I would normally take. So I told them, and one of them being thorazine. The doctor started to argue with me that thorazine did not do what I said it did. I had a fit, told the doctor to leave my room, and that I wanted to see the doctor in charge of my case. Needless to say, within an hour, I had my medicine.

Anyway, thorazine is in the family of compazine. Both are in the category of "pysch meds", but they are great for migraine pain and WONDERFUL for nausea.

I used to take fiorinal for my headaches, but they cause me the same problem which is rebound. Not right away like a narcotic, but if I had to take it twice in a week...the rebound would be terrible.

Thank god for ice lol. I use lots and lots of ice.

I'm not disagreeing that it can work for nausea..
Just so you're aware of the..
Potentially permanent.. side effects that can occur at any time with it.

JC, I know. My doctor is concerned about that also. Unfortunately, I've been on just about every other medication for nausea, and I might as well have been taking tic tacs. I just have to weigh the risks vs the benefits.