Medication-overuse Headache (MOH): Withdrawal or Use of Preventative Medications Directly?

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

It is a common belief that patients with MOH rarely respond of preventative medications whilst overusing acute medications. However, no randomized trial has been done previously to prove such statement. Based on some clinical experiences, our hypothesis are patients with probably MOH may benefit from use of preventive medications better than treatment with abrupt withdrawal or no specific treatment.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Treatments: Adrenergic beta-Antagonists

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• fulfill 8.2.7 probably medication-overuse headache according to the International Classification of headache disorders, 2th Edition (2004)

Exclusion Criteria:

• No benefit of all available preventative medications, no benefit of abrupt withdrawal lasting more than 3 weeks of acute medication that has been overused, cluster headache, CPH or hemicrania continua, pregnant, use of pain killers of other reasons than headache, other reasons for chronic daily headache than medication-overuse.