Medication Overuse Headache - Migraine Master Class: Webinar 10 

I prefer the term "MAH", or Medication Adaptation Headache", it removes the stigma from my behavior in seeking to avoid incapacitating pain. Why do the OTC medications STILL not have warnings about MOH online or on bottles? Most providers seem to have confused MAH/MOH with tolerance or addiction. I am in middle age, with no history of familial history of substance abuse; have never taken illegal drugs, nor broken my med contract with my provider. And YET..I feel I am often treated like a junkie when all the "Behaviors" you describe are driven by a need to eliminate or avoid pain. What sane person would not engage in them? It is quite stigmatizing to present them as if they are some type of personality or mental weakness that drives the use. IT IS THE PAIN that drives the use. It is so disheartening to go through this and be judged when one is doing is to try to find a way to avoid the pain and life some residual form of life.

questions... about the epidemiology slide..... when it's mostly females and increasing with age until middle age.... did nobody question if it shouldn't be (peri)menopause in stead off middle age? And was the medication only used for headache? or maybe another pain that could be addressed by other medication/ treatment? You hardly address how to cope with that. Also, what to do if (a relapse of) moh might be triggered because someone broke a bone or needs surgery or has acute arthritis.... And why is the amount of days you can use medication different depending of the location of the research/ medical professional...?