Question about " Excedrin Migraine" and Tylenol for tension headaches?

Question

I see all these different products, tylenol tension headaches, excedrin migraine , arthrites etc...but then when I look at the ingredients, they're all the same as regular tylenol: acetominaphem. How can they claim it's specific for migraines? Is this just a marketing scheme or am I overlooking something?

Answer 1

They have something extra in there that does work. I think you are over looking something. I have used the excedrin migraine and it has helped and if I use it at the very beginning of a migraine I can catch it if not I have to use a prescription from my Dr. for for Imitrex and then sometimes i still have to use a double dose of that. The tension headache from tylenol helps me in a room that has a lot of lights I don't get headaches from the lights. I am very sensitive to lights and the Tylenol tension headache meds help with that, i don't know why but it does.

Answer 2

Excedrin migraine has caffeine. If none of these work for you I like Advil migraine its a little hard to find but totally worth it.

Answer 3

In my younger days when I used to get migraines, the only thing that would help was Excedrin. I think it was definitely the caffeine in them that helped.

Answer 4

The excedrin migraine also has caffeine, which is good for migraines.
I've used it and it's the only thing that works, even better than prescritption stuff like Zomig.

Answer 5

Tylenol...the very minimum amount needed to relieve the headache, never MOTRIN or ASPRIN....also, this is caused by the 40% additional blood volume and it helps to get a head and neck massage and also a pretty warm bath to help those vessels relax....good luck not too far to go....

Answer 6

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