Better to take painkillers for headaches as early as possible?

Doctors agree

Created: 2022-08-09 13:27

By: Juliane Gutmann

Stress, weather changes, drinking too little: various causes can lead to headaches.

Sometimes a hat helps sleep.

Anyone who uses pills should know one rule.

It is often factors that can be influenced that trigger headaches.

For example, tense neck muscles, too little sleep, alcohol, bad air or worries and worries trigger the unpleasant pain in the head.

Addressing these triggers in a targeted manner can effectively prevent headaches.

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Then a visit to the doctor's office is advisable.

The doctor treating you will get to the bottom of the cause through various examinations.

If the diagnosis "migraine" falls, appropriate therapy is initiated.

Only in very rare cases are headaches caused by dangerous underlying diseases such as meningitis or a brain tumor, as Austria's public health portal informs.

Rest and relaxation often help against headaches.

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In the case of mild to moderate headaches that do not occur frequently, rest and relaxation are often enough to get rid of them.

Non-drug measures, on the other hand, are often not used consistently, according to the DGN.

Endurance sports, relaxation techniques and stress management are enormously helpful for tension headaches and migraines.

explains how headaches can be quickly and easily banished without tablets

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In the guide "Coping with stress: training manual for psychological health promotion" (advertising link), the psychological psychotherapist Dr.

Gert Kaluza on which relaxation and mental training units allow you to calm down.

The book has been used successfully for over 20 years and is supported by the statutory health insurance companies as a tested preventive measure.

If the appointment calendar is full or you have to be fit for an event that cannot be postponed, many people resort to pain medication.

should be taken as soon as possible - right?

Pain medication survey

Ibuprofen and paracetamol for headaches: when is the right time

If the pain is already fully "grown", pills no longer work as well - so a common assumption.

In fact, you shouldn't wait too long if you're going to use painkillers to treat headaches.

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", so the appeal of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK).

Those who often endure pain risk that the body adjusts to the recurring pain experiences and develops a pain memory, TK continues.

This can result in chronic headaches.

To prevent this, one should not tolerate a headache until it is unbearable, but take the dose recommended in the package leaflet or by the doctor or pharmacist early on.

According to the TK, if you only take the pill when the pain is very severe, you also risk that it will not work as well.

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The same applies to migraine patients: waiting is the wrong approach when it comes to taking painkillers.

As the pain clinic in Kiel informs, the migraine medication should be taken very early on.

Taking it late can mean that otherwise

, according to the website of the Pain Clinic in Kiel.

The reason: Especially with migraines, the absorption capacity of the stomach and intestines is very often disrupted during the attack, which means that the active ingredients can no longer reach their site of action.

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