TREATMENT BY DIAGNOSIS
Yücel said, “Migraine is a headache that causes loss of labor in acute periods. Our patients, whom we encounter very often in our daily lives, are the most common health problems that come to us in the outpatient clinic with this complaint. In fact, migraine is a common ailment from the historical age. First of all, it is necessary to diagnose migraine headache. Not all headaches are migraines. There may be headaches originating from the neck and back. There may be headaches that we can describe as a more severe form of migraine, which we call cluster headache. First, the diagnosis of headache treatment should be made and treated accordingly,' he said.
THERE ARE TWO METHODS
Dr. Dilek Kasım Yücel gave the following information: 'There are two methods. Attack treatment and preventive treatment. Medically, we call preventive treatment as prophylactic treatment. Patients come to us during the attack period. But when we question the patient, we see that the patient had a nagging headache almost every day in the past. When this bothers the patient, he consults the doctor. We determine the drug initiation criteria for the patient as follows. If the patient's need for painkillers is higher than five or six in a week, or if the headache that will prevent him from doing his job is more than eight or ten days a month, the patient should start the treatment we call migraine prophylaxis. What we call prophylaxis treatment is to try to give treatments to prevent the patient's headache rather than giving painkillers for migraine headaches.'
