A common cause of headache is overuse of headache medications. These headaches are difficult to treat once they occur, since withdrawing all medications often makes the headache even worse.
A study from Germany showed that patients who took prednisone for five days during withdrawal had headaches that lasted only about half as long as those who received no treatment. This therapy may help patients with medication-overuse headaches who attempt to stop using headache drugs. [S59.005]
Neuropathic pain is a common and dreaded complication of spinal cord injury, and has proven very hard to treat.
Researchers in Germany, Australia, and the United States showed that pregabalin, a drug used for diabetic neuropathic pain, is also effective for relieving centrally generated neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.
It reduced pain by about 25 percent versus placebo. Its effects were seen within one week, and lasted for the full 12 weeks of the study. [S49.001]
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