Many different kinds of sleep disorders related to headache One such sleep is characterized by a disturbance in the 24-hour rhythm. Until recently it was difficult to treat sleep problems.
The past five years, new opportunities developed to patients with a 24-hour help arrhythmias (2). Based on two case histories of migraine patients with a 24-hour rhythm disorder will discuss these new developments.
Health Histories
* Patient 1 was a 47 years old male engineer who had migraine with aura since childhood.
Because of these attacks, he could at least 1 days work per week. The patient took 9 different analgesics (paracetamol, aspirin and NSAIDs) per week, and 10 tablets of sumatriptan (Imigran) per week. During the day he was very tired. His mood was depressed. He smoked 20 cigarettes a day and drank a bottle of wine per day.
Apart from this, his medical history was normal.
During migraine attacks the patient slept prefer. When asked “Do you sleep badly”, he said: “On the contrary, I sleep very well. I even need 3 alarms to wake up, at my time at work can be.” (more…)
