I know what it's like, you've tried every natural headache remedy going and nothing is working so you decide to raid the medicine cabinet...
If you are like many chronic daily migraine and/or headache sufferers over the counter pain medication will not make the slightest bit of difference, still you live in hope that today it may just work so you try a couple of painkillers anyway as any improvement would be welcome.
A few words from the wise passed on from my headache specialist to me (note that this is in reference to chronic daily headache/migraine sufferers):
1. stay away from any codeine based medication including paracetamol with codeine, co-codamol etc.. whilst they are brilliant painkillers they bring with them an associated rebound headache which really won't help your cause (you're getting enough headaches of your own already). Don't be afraid to ask your GP if the painkiller's he is about to prescribe you contain codeine and don't be afraid to refuse them either.
2. if painkiller's aren't working - don't keep taking them, if they are making no difference, they aren't helping your cause any, it's time to see a specialist.
