Easy therapeutical management of sumatriptan-induced daily headache

Drug-induced daily headache is a frequent problem in headache therapy. It can be caused by the daily intake of ergotamines and common analgesics. Drug-induced headache manifests itself as constant daily dull pressure with either frontal or occipital localization. Most patients wake up with headache in the morning. Skipping the usual daily dose of headache medication often causes an unbearable increase of headache severity. The therapy of druginduced headache is withdrawal of the responsible drugs. [1] There is little documentation of drug-induced headache caused by sumatriptan, [2,3] and we report our experience with five patients. Five women Table 1, Table 2 with migraine without aura were treated with daily sumatriptan before they attended our outpatient department. Four of five patients took sumatriptan …