Posted by medlib on March 10, 2000, at 11:35:19
In reply to Re: Ooooops, posted by Lynne on March 9, 2000, at 20:21:44
> Thanks medlib!
>
> I'll try the really warm water trick, and call and tell the doc that I'm having muscle cramps.
>
> LynneLynne-
What I should have added to the "warm water trick" info is that it is sorta diagnostic, not therapeutic. If your headache is vascular in nature, any relief lasts only as long as your hands are warm. (That's because blood flows away from your head--and the over-dilated arterioles therein--toward your hands, to take away the heat build-up.) Anti-migraine meds work by constricting the over-dilated cerebral arteries.
(I have been known to use one of those stadium handwarmers while waiting for migraine meds to kick in, tho.)
Hope your side effects subside soon!
medlib
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