Excedrin Migraine addiction?

Question by cat_lover: Excedrin Migraine addiction?
Keeping it short as possible, I think that I am possibly addicted to the Excedrin Migraine Tablets. I started getting chronic headaches and migraines about a year and a half ago – five times a week I would get a headache which would turn into a migraine if I didn’t take medication quickly enough. I’ve been hospitalized four times for migraines and tension headaches from waiting too long to take medication, and have seen three different neurologists. None of them have done any MRI scans, and simply prescribed me different medications ranging from Relpax to Panadol, which is why I have stopped seeing them. Excedrin Migraine worked the best for me, so whenever I felt a headache starting I take two tablets. I sometimes repeat the dosage twice or three times a day (every 4 hours). This used to be about once to three times a week. However, I was shocked to realize that I finished an entire bottle within two weeks, and I am getting daily headaches now. I tried different medications when I got a headache but none of them bring any relief apart from Excedrin Migraine. Is there a chance that I could perhaps be addicted to the acetephomine (spelling?) or any other ingredient?
I am eighteen now, and have been getting these headaches since about two months before my seventeent birthday. How can addiction be combated without having to suffer from extreme pain and migraines? Please help.

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Answer by ckngbbbls
migrainse don’t really need MRI to diagnos and some the medication prescribed does help.
http://www.drugs.com/relpax.html
The prescription medicine for migrainse help dialate blood vessels to ease the pain and work very well for many people who suffer from migrains bad enough thatExcedrin wouldn’t even touch.
The only thing in Excedrin Migraine formula that could possibly be addicting is caffeine which also happens to be a common trigger for migraines for some people.
You have a caffeine addiction is my guess.
The next time you get a headache, have a cup of coffee and a couple of plain aspirin. If the headache goes away, its the caffeine you are addicted to. A cup of coffee is a whole lot healthier than taking tons of acetaminophen which can cause liver damage. Coffee in moderate amounts doesn’t do anything bad.

Answer by oldgoat
You are a victim of the ignorance of the late 20th century. While it is possible to be addicted to anything, you aren’t going to find aceitaminophen ( it’s just easier to use the pharmacy abbreviation of APAP or call it Tylenol) is not going to be real high on most lists of addictive substances or activities. But we have turned in to an addiction happy society because many people with no medical training (and less knowledge) have taken to calling themselves addiction specialists with no more qualification than they think they were addicted to something and beat it. They’re a huge joke but boy do they rake in the money, especially when someone well known approaches them for an “addiction pass” for something like emailing naked pix of themselves to young women. It has saved many a political or movie career. Mel Gibson was addicted to hating Jews, but he’s OK now. Rep Weiner was addicted to sending porn over the net, but he’s OK now. They were OK before as long as you don’t mind a**holes and perverts.
You are caught in the other end of the trap. You think you are a tylenol addict because everyone is so freaked out about addiction, no one has been willing to treat your headaches with an effective enough medication. You shouldn’t be taking something so weak you finish a bottle in two weeks. You should be taking something strong enough that one or two tablets control your pain all day while they carry on a serious investigation as to why you are having these headaches.
The adults in your life have failed you, from your folks not being forceful enough with these doctors to the doctors themselves being afraid to put a strong enough pain killer in the hands of an 18 year old. Everyone is an addict to them. That makes THEM dangerous. I suppose doctors think it evens out since most are liars. It doesn’t, it only makes THEM more dangerous.
You will likely need a neurologist to find the cause. You will need a pain specialist to write prescription for pain drugs. It sounds stupid, one doctor should be able to do both but welcome to the 21st century where truths are irrelevant and doctors get their education off TV news and shows like law and order where just taking a drug like Vicodin is a crime. You come to terms with that being how it is and get mad about it with your folks and your doctors and you find someone who cares enough to treat pain and wants to cure the cause of the headaches. And if something is very wrong now that could have been fixed a year ago, you get a lawyer and you put these useless doctors out of business. Make them so poor they have to work the door at Walmart, where they can never hurt another soul being afraid to do their job.
I’m sure it’s nothing serious, but your suffering is. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? Good luck

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