Amidrine - Acetaminophen/isometheptine/dichlorophenazone (oral)
- Acetaminophen/isometheptine/dichlorophenazone
- The medicines in my prescription migrane pills, which I am now consuming in the prescribed amount.
- (oral)
- A helpful hint on where to put said pills.
Uses: This medication is used to relieve migraine and tension headaches
I suffer from migraine headaches. I can tell within a few hours of waking up whether I'll be incapacitated with pain by the evening. And if I go to bed with a migraine, I'll wake up with an even worse migraine. They're my own damned fault—if I don't eat breakfast in a timely manner I'll get a headache. Breakfast can be substituted with a back-breaking toil in most cases. It's something to do with blood-flow, I think.
That said, a backbreaking toil is also o a cure for a migraine. So is good conversation, and often sex. All three however have an "activation energy" which is usually unattainable when I'm squinting my eyes in pain and trying to stay very, very still.
I'm suffering from a migraine headache right now. The acetaminophen in this medication is turning my liver to swiss cheese, but my brain continues to hammer its way through my left temple. I'm sending in reinforcements, PRECAUTIONS: be damned. Livers grow back, brain cells don't.
According to the helpful table included with this prescription, a migraine only affects one side of the head, whereas a tension headache can affect one or both sides of the head. The included table reveals that a migraine is in all other respects a "really bad" tension headache.
According to the Wikipedia (which is a substitute for the expertise of a healthcare professional) the word migraine has its roots in Ancient Greek: hemi+krania (half-head). That's reassuring, somehow. The ancient Greeks too, in all their brilliance, were brought to their knees by malfunctioning cranial blood-vessels. The togas made sex a more viable curative I'm sure, but they definitely didn't have Amidrine.
I think its a placebo. Wikipedia lists a whole host of migraine medications and Amidrine isn't among them. Wikipedia also lists some "traditional" cures, including acupuncture and the extracts of various plants. But the Ancient Greeks didn't have any fancy modern medication, and they managed to survive! Er, uh oh...
No, further research does not definitively tie the fall of Ancient Greece to migraine headaches. I had to make sure. This migraine may be the end of me though. I'm going to try a traditional cure of my own—alcohol. Livers grow back, brain cells don't. Here's to Ancient Greece!