What to do for chronic migraines?

Treatment: Treatment is either preventative medication (topamax (topiramate) or others) or abortive (stop the headache) medication (immitrex and others).

Prevention: You may possess migraines, but other problems may be present, and it is best to be examined, and possibly have imaging of the brain. Frequent headaches, >15/month are termed "chronic daily headaches", and can be due to constant pain med ingestion. Drugs to break up these patterns include depakote, topamax, (topiramate) propranalol, and otc items such as riboflavin, co-q-10, feverfew, and butterbur.