Do not excede stated dosage

[davywavy]

Woke up with a migraine this morning. I've never done that before, and let me tell you it makes the never-pleasurable task of waking up on a work day into the real chore. In an attempt to see it off I guzzled 3 aspirin (recommended dosage 1-3 tablets for adults) and set off for work.

The aspirin had no noticable effect and the headache got worse to the extent that I was actually physically sick from the pain, and so in desperation I blagged another painkiller from one of my colleagues.
The fourth aspirin was the killer - within half-an-hour I was light-headed and felt faint. However, the pain had mostly gone.

Todays lesson is: if you take the stated dosage, it won't help. if you take more, you run the risk of passing out. Great.

Comments

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

So what's a good way of getting rid of a migraine (I've never had one, but...)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Anti-migrane drugs. You need to go see a doc for those though.

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

The specifically anti-migrane tablets like Migraleve are a good start. A headache is a temporary constriciton of the blood vessels and what Aspirin and other SA-related painkillers do is relax the blood vessels and actually thin the blood a little as well as reducing blood pressure slightly. A migrane is when the vessels have dilated too much already. See what happens if you use regular anti-headache remedies?