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Ushered in by a disturbance of nervous function, most often visual, followed in a few minutes by hemicranial headache, nausea & sometimes vomiting, all of which lasts for hours or as long as a day or more

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Migraine with aura/ classic or neurologic migraine

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Unheralded onset over minutes or longer of hemicranial headache with or without nausea or vomiting, lasting for hours or as long as a day or more

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Migraine without aura/ common migraine

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A less common form of migraine syndrome with prominent brainstem symptoms

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Basilar migraine

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Recurrent unilateral headache associated with weakness of the extraocular muscles

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Ophthalmoplegic migraine

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Migraine type wherein neurologic symptoms, instead of being transitory, leave a prolonged or even permanent deficit, indicative of an ischemic stroke

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Complicated migraine

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Daily or virtually severe continuous headache

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Status migrainosus

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Treatment for migraine if headaches are mild

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NSAIDs

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Treatment for severe attacks of migraine headache

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Triptans/ ergot alkaloids

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Treatment for severely ill patients, having failed to obtain relief from prolonged headache with NSAIDs, ergots, or triptans; also used for ongoing status migrainosus

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Metoclopromide 10 mg IV + dihydroergotamine 0.5 to 1 mg IV every 8 hours for 2 days

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Used for refractory cases of migraine & for terminating migraine status

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Corticosteroids

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Most effective agents for prevention of migraine

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Beta blockers
Anti-epileptics
TCAs

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Characterized by consistent unilateral orbital localization with a nightly occurrence, between 1 & 2 hours after the onset of sleep

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Cluster headache

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Characterized by infraorbital radiation of pain, ipsilateral partial Horner syndrome, & ipsilateral hyperhydrosis; important because of high frequency of underlying intracranial lesions

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Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia

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Resembles cluster headache but is of shorter duration, the paroxysms occur many times each day, recur daily for longer periods, & most important, respond dramatically to the administration of indomethacin 25-50 mg TID

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Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania

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Attacks are even briefer & more frequent & does not usually respond to indomethacin

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SUNCT (short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform attacks with conjunctival injection & tearing)

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Treatment to terminate a cycle of cluster

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100% O2 via 10-15 min at the onset of headache

Verapamil

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Treatment for nocturnal attacks

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Ergotamine at bedtime

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Most common type of headache; usually bilateral; absence of persistent throbbing quality, nausea, photophobia, phonophobia, & clear lateralization of migraine

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Tension headache

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The only type of headache that exhibits the peculiarity of being present throughout the day, day after day, for long periods of time

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Chronic tension-type headache

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Treatment of tension headache

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Simple analgesics

Anti-depressants (amitriptyline)

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Headache syndrome in older patients with a nocturnal occurrence; bilateral & unaccompanied by lacrimation & rhinorrhea

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Hypnic headache

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Steps to take at the earliest suspicion of cranial arteritis

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1) immediate administration of corrticosteroids

2) biopsy

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A common disorder of middle age & later life, consisting of paroxysms of intense stabbing pain in the distribution of the mandibular & maxillary divisions of the trigeminal nerve; another characteristic feature is initiation of a jab or series of jabs of pain by stimulation of certain areas of the face, lips, or gums

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Trigeminal neuralgia/ tic douloureux

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Treatment for trigeminal neuralgia

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Carbamazepine/ anti-epileptics