I drink a lot of caffeine to keep my headaches away. I know this is not the right answer, with being an RN and all, however I work nights and need to stay awake. When I have days off I tend to stay up for 30 plus hours before going to bed. I take is less than half the caffeine I take in
when I am working and this causes me to get migraines. I keep a bottle of Excedrin Migraine tabs handy and use them once this process starts. You can buy them over the counter and they are relatively cheap, like $3 for a bottle of 50 tabs. My headache pain is resolved quickly with these.
They contain acetamenophen, caffeine, and aspirin. I am ...
what if Excedrin Migraine doesn`t work for me? it says it works after 30 minutes,but i still have a horrible pounding in my head, what should i do?
Hi,
I unfortunately have a vast amount of experience with migraines. I love Excedrin, but there are a few things that I have noticed:
first, with severe migraines, you may need to take Excedrin and then lay down in a cool dark place with a cool rag over your eyes.
Second, Excedrin migraine wont work if you are having a tension headache. For that I would get Excedrin tension headache. They are pretty much the same ingredients, but they work differently.