currently i'm taking percocet for a minor injury..and i swear this medicine is giving me terrible headaches..the last time my dr. put me on this medicine i got headaches also..why? is this bad?
2006-10-03 13:51:29 · 4 answers · asked by Uncle Salty 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
One thing that may very well be compounding your problems is the use of Percocet for a preventive. Percocet is not a preventive. Percocet is a pain medication, and using it more than two or three days a week is highly likely to cause rebound headaches in most people
2006-10-03 14:00:24 · answer #1 · answered by salsagal41 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I can't say I've had the same problem with percocet.
Have you ever had problems with tylenol which is in it?
I suggest you ask your doctor for a three day supply of another analgesic, and see if the headaches go away. If not, try a third. It may just be a strange reaction you get, but the goal of the medication is to take away pain.
2006-10-03 14:01:40 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you wanting them because they make the pain go away or because they make you feel good? Narcotics can sometimes cause rebound headaches because they lower the blood pressure, but they are sometimes prescribed for migraines. If you feel you need to be on narcotics for your migraines long-term, you should see a pain management doctor. You will have to bring all of your medical records to the pain doctor. Narcotics are the oldest and safest form of pain control available and if you GENUINELY have pain and need to take them every day there is nothing wrong with that. But take a good long look at if you genuinely need them for the migraines or if you like the way they make you feel. A pain management doctor may try several different modalities to help your situation in addition to the medication. Many pain management doctors are also neurologists (mine is) and can also help figure out what is causing your migraines. Family doctors will probably not routinely prescribe Percocet for migraines, but if you explain that you've been taking what you had left over from your wisdom teeth for the migraines and it helped, they may write a one-time scrip for a handfull of them. Withdrawals are nothing to mess around with, though; they are worse than the worst kind of hell. If you do go to pain management and are put on narcotics they will taper you down when you are ready to quit or they decide you need to stop taking them.
2016-03-18 04:24:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Headaches can be a side effect of narcotics. Ask your MD if there is some other med you can try. There's Tramadol; it works relatively well.
2006-10-03 14:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by swomedicineman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my son gets chest pain fron a certain pain medication... he is allergic to it.... my guess would be you are allergic to it... don't take anymore... ask your doctor for something else
2006-10-03 14:03:22 · answer #5 · answered by mommakaye 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋