Pharmacological management of migraine (SIGN)
- Consider migraine in any patient presenting with episodic disabling headache.
- Patients with episodic disabling headache superimposed on a background of daily or near daily headache are likely to have chronic headache.
- Always ask about acute medication use. If required for more than 2 days a week consider whether there may be medication-overuse headache.
- Headache diaries can help.