What is medication overuse headache?

Medication overuse headaches (MOH) can result from taking short-acting headache medication too often or for too long a period of time.

How do members experience medication overuse headache?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with medication overuse headache*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for medication overuse headache*

Who has medication overuse headache on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 1
20s 1
30s 3
40s 1
50s 0
60s 0
70+ 0

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 0
Female 6