Migaine Treatment: What's Old, What's New
偏头痛治疗:传统方案,新方案
Migraine is a very common and disabling illness. Picking an agent that is best for each individual patient requires considering the patient's history, lifestyle, comorbid conditions, and individual preferences. There are a few new treatment options, including TMS and ketamine.
偏头痛是一种非常常见的致残疾病。为每位患者选择最适合的药物需要考虑患者的病史、生活方式、合并症情况及个体偏好。目前有一些新的治疗方案,包括经颅磁刺激和氯胺酮。
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本综述将强调目前对偏头痛的定义以及治疗方案。
A recurring headache that is of moderate or severe intensity, and is triggered by migraine-precipitating factors, usually is considered to be migraine. Precipitating factors can include stress, certain foods, weather changes, smoke, hunger, fatigue, hormones, and so on. Migraine without aura is a chronic idiopathic headache disorder with attacks lasting 4 to 72 hours. Status migrainosus applies to migraine headaches that exceed 72 hours. Migraine features often include a unilateral location and a throbbing or pulsating nature to the pain. There may be associated nausea, photophobia, phonophobia, or dizziness (Table 1). Further characteristics include a positive relationship with menses, decreased frequency during pregnancy, increased pain with physical activity, and history of migraine in first-degree relatives. It has been reported by 70% to 75% of migraine patients that they have a first-degree relative with a history of migraines.³
Although the pain is unilateral in 50% of migraine patients, the entire head often becomes involved. The pain may be in the facial or the cervical (neck) areas, and often will shift sides from one occurrence to another. Most patients, however, suffer the severe pain on one favored side from attack to attack.
The typical migraine patient suffers 1 to 5 attacks in a month, but many patients average l<1 (episodic) or >10 per month (chronic). The attack frequency varies with the seasons, and many patients can identify a time of year when their headaches increase significantly. Patients with chronic migraine may have 15 days a month of headache, and many even have 30 days/month, 24/7.
典型的偏头痛患者在一个月内遭受 1 至 5 次发作,但许多患者平均每月 l<1(发作性)或 >10(慢性)。发作频率随季节而变化,许多患者可以确定一年中头痛明显加重的时间。慢性偏头痛患者可能每月头痛15天,许多人甚至有30天/月、24小时不间断的头痛。
The pain of a migraine often follows a bell-shaped curve, with a gradual ascent, a peak for a number of hours, and then a slow decline (Table 2). Occasionally, the pain may be at its peak within minutes of onset. Many patients with migraine suffer some degree of nausea during the attack, and some experience vomiting as well. The nausea often is mild, and some patients are not bothered by it. Many patients state that the headache is lessened after they vomit. Diarrhea may occur and is usually mild to moderate. The presence of diarrhea renders the use of rectal suppositories impossible.
偏头痛的疼痛通常遵循钟形曲线,逐渐上升,数小时内达到峰值,然后缓慢下降(表2)。有时,疼痛可能在发病后几分钟内达到高峰。许多偏头痛患者在发作期间遭受一定程度的恶心,有些人也会呕吐。恶心通常是轻微的,有些患者并无恶心症状。许多患者表示,呕吐后头痛减轻。可能发生腹泻,通常为轻度至中度。腹泻时不得使用直肠栓剂。
Lightheadedness often accompanies the migraine, and syncope may occur. Most patients become sensitive to bright lights, sounds, and/or odors. Between migraine attacks, many patients retain the photophobia, and it is common for migraine patients to wear sunglasses most of the time. Sensitivity to bright lights is a distinctive migraine characteristic.
Pallor of the face is common during a migraine; flushing may occur as well but is seen less often. Patients do complain of feeling excessively hot or cold during an attack, and the skin temperature may increase or decrease on the side with pain. Patients with migraines often experience tenderness of the scalp that may linger for hours or days after the migraine pain has ceased. This tenderness may actually occur during the prodrome of the migraine. Both vascular and muscular factors contribute to the scalp tenderness. Autonomic disturbances are relatively common, such as pupillary miosis or dilation, rhinorrhea, eye tearing, and nasal stuffiness. These also are symptoms of cluster headache, including the sharp pain around one eye or temple.
Alterations of mood are seen with many patients before, during, and after migraine attacks. Patients are usually anxious, tired, or depressed. They often feel “washed out” after an attack, but a calm or even euphoric state occasionally is seen as a postdrome to the migraine. Rarely, euphoria or exhilaration may precede a migraine.
Weight gain due to fluid retention may occur, and begins prior to the onset of a migraine. At some point during the migraine, patients may experience polyuria. The weight gain is usually less than 4 lb, and is transient.
Visual Disturbances/视觉障碍
Approximately 20% of patients experience visual neurologic disturbances preceding or during the migraine; these auras may be as disturbing to the patient as the migraine pain itself. The visual symptoms usually last 15 to 20 minutes, and most often will be followed by the migraine. Most migraine sufferers experience the same aura with each migraine, but occasionally one person may have several types of auras. “The light of a flashbulb going off” is the description many patients give to describe their aura. The visual hallucinations reported most often consist of spots, stars, lines (often wavy), color splashes, and waves resembling heat waves. The images may seem to shimmer, sparkle, or flicker. These visual occurrences are referred to as photopsia.
Fortification spectra are seen much less often than photopsia. They usually begin with a decrease in vision and visual hallucinations that are unformed. Within minutes, a paracentral scotoma becomes evident and assumes a crescent shape, usually with zigzags. There often is associated shimmering, sparkling, or flickering at the edges of the scotoma.
Patients may experience a “graying out” of their vision, or a “white out” may occur. Some patients suffer complete visual loss, usually for some minutes. Photopsia may be experienced at the same time as the gray-out, white- out, or visual loss.
Miscellaneous Neurologic Symptoms/其他神经系统症状
Numbness or tingling (paresthesias) commonly are experienced by patients as part of the migraine. These are experienced most often in one hand and forearm, but may be felt in the face, peri-orally, or in both arms and legs. Like the visual disturbances, they often last only minutes preceding the pain, but the numbness may continue for hours, and at times the paresthesias are severe. The sensory disturbances usually increase slowly over 15 to 25 minutes, differentiating them from the more rapid pace seen in epilepsy.
Paralysis of the limbs may occur, but this is rare. This is occasionally seen as a familial autosomal dominant trait, and the term familial hemiplegic migraine is applied to this form. With the weakness, aphasia or slurred speech may also occur, and sensory disturbances are seen ipsilateral to the weakness.
Vertigo and/or dizziness are often experienced during migraine, and may be disabling. “Migraine associated vertigo” has become a common diagnosis. At times, the dizziness is more disabling to patients than the other symptoms. Ataxia may occur, but is not common. Rarely, multiple symptoms of brain stem dysfunction occur, with the term basilar migraine being applied to this type of syndrome. The attack usually begins with visual disturbances (most often photopsia), followed by ataxia, vertigo, paresthesias, and other brain stem symptoms. These severe neurologic symptoms usually abate after 15 to 30 minutes, and are followed by a headache. This type of migraine often stops over months or years, and the patient is simply left with migraine headaches without neurologic dysfunction.
Workup for Migraine/偏头痛的病情检查
As noted, when patients present with a long history of typical migraine attacks, and the headaches are essentially unchanged, scans of the head usually are not absolutely necessary. Whether to do any testing at all depends on the physician's clinical suspicion of organic pathology (see box). Sound clinical judgment, based on patient history and a physical exam, is crucial in deciding who needs which exam.
In addition to the MRI and CT scan, tests that are sometimes useful for diagnosis of headache, include lumbar puncture, IOP testing, CT scan of the sinuses, and blood tests. A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) allows the detection of most intracranial aneurysms.
The problems that need to be excluded in a patient with new-onset migraine include sinus disease, meningitis, glaucoma, brain tumor, arteritis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, low pressure headache, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, hydrocephalus, pheochromocytoma, stroke or transient ischemic attack, internal carotid artery dissection, and systemic illness.
Headache Triggers/头痛诱因
With migraine and chronic daily headache sufferers, avoidance of triggers should be emphasized. The most common triggers are stress (both during and after stress), weather changes, perimenstruation, missing meals, bright lights or sunlight, under- and oversleeping, food sensitivity, perfume, cigarette smoke, exercise, and sexual activity. Some foods can be headache triggers, but foods tend to be overemphasized. In general, headache patients do better with regular schedules, eating three or more meals per day and going to bed and waking at the same time every day. Many patients state that “I can tell the weather with my head.” Barometric changes and storms are typical weather culprits, but some patients do poorly on bright “sun-glare” days.
Regarding stress as a trigger, it is not so much extreme stress, but daily hassles that increase headaches. When patients are faced with overwhelming daily stress, particularly when they are not sleeping well at night, headaches can be much worse the next day.
Psychotherapy is extremely useful for many headache patients with regard to stress management, coping, life issues, family-of-origin issues, and so on. Although psychotherapy may be recommended, it is crucial to legitimize the headaches as a physical condition; headaches are not a “psychological” problem, but rather a physical one that stress may exacerbate. Once one inherits the brain chemistry for headache, these triggers come into play; without the inherited genetics, most people may have stress/weather changes/hormonal changes, but not experience a headache.
Managing stress with exercise, yoga/Pilates/meditation, etc., often will reduce the frequency of headaches. The ideal would be for the patient to take a class weekly, then do the stretches and breathing for 10 minutes a day. Patients may experience some relief from associated neck or back pain. Relaxation techniques such as biofeedback, deep breathing, and imaging also may be helpful for daily headache patients, particularly when stress is a factor.
Many migraine patients have accompanying neck pain and physical therapy may help; acupuncture or chiropractic treatments occasionally help. Certain physical therapists “specialize” in head and neck pain. Massage may be effective, but the relief is often short-lived. Temporomandibular disorder (TMD), with clenching and/or bruxing, may exacerbate migraine; with TMD, physical therapy, a bite splint, and/or Botox may help. It often “takes a village” to help a person with pain, and we recruit other “villagers”, such as physical therapists or psychotherapists.
Caffeine Use/咖啡因的使用
Although caffeine can help headaches, overuse may increase headaches. Whether in coffee, caffeine pills, or combination analgesics, patients must limit total caffeine intake. The maximum amount of caffeine taken each day varies from person to person, depending on sleep patterns, presence of anxiety, and sensitivity to possible rebound headaches. In general, caffeine should be limited to no more than 150 or 200 mg a day (Table 3).
Foods to Avoid/应避免的食物
Migraine Treatments/偏头痛的治疗方法
Medications: Abortives/药物:中止剂
偏头痛最常见的一线治疗方法包括曲坦类药物。全世界有超过2亿病人使用过曲坦类药物。使用曲坦类药物最有效的方法是在头痛早期服用,病人越早服用,效果越好。舒马曲坦是一种极其有效的偏头痛治疗药物,副作用很小。它对大约70%的病人有效,是中止性头痛治疗的金标准。通常的剂量是根据需要,每3小时一片;最大剂量是每天两片。然而,临床医生确实需要限制曲坦类药物的使用(最好是每周3天),以避免反弹性头痛或药物过度使用性头痛(MOH)。参见反弹/MOH部分章节。
曲坦类药物对中度和更严重的偏头痛都有帮助。某些病人对一种曲坦类药物的耐受性优于另一种,可以在个别病人身上尝试几种。对于没有冠状动脉疾病(CAD)风险的偏头痛患者,曲坦类药物是一个很好的选择。50多岁或60多岁的病人可以使用这些药物,但应谨慎开药,而且只适用于已接受过CAD筛查的病人。在曲坦类药物上市的23年里,严重的副作用很少;它们似乎比之前在1993年认为的要安全得多。大多数曲坦类药物现在都作为通用药物供选择。
对于不能建立耐受曲普坦类药物的患者,还有其他一些有效的非曲普坦类药物的一线治疗方法,包括双氯芬酸钾粉(Cambia)、Excedrin Migraine、萘普生、酮咯酸(po/IM/鼻腔:Sprix鼻腔喷雾)、布洛芬和Prodrin(与Midrin类似,但没有镇静剂)。我们经常将2种一线方法结合起来(例如,使用一种曲坦类药物和一种非甾体抗炎药[NSAID]的组合)。
一般来说,含有麦角胺(也称为麦角)的药物是偏头痛的有效二线治疗方法。是最早的抗偏头痛药物,但有许多副作用,最多只能每周使用2天。二氢麦角胺(DHE)是最安全的麦角衍生物。DHE主要是一种“静脉收缩剂”,对动脉几乎没有影响。这使得它不太可能引起心脏问题。事实上,自1945年推出以来,DHE一直非常安全。静脉注射 DHE 是一种非常有效的偏头痛中止剂,在办公室或急诊室给药。鼻腔(Migranal鼻喷雾剂)和吸入形式的DHE(希望很快被释放)也被认为是安全有效的。巴比妥类药物和阿片类药物已经过研究,并且是有效的,但由于有成瘾的风险,应谨慎使用。对于严重的长期偏头痛,皮质类固醇(口服、静脉注射或肌肉注射)通常有效。关键是是需要注意控制低剂量的使用类固醇。
许多病人有3到6种药:曲坦类药物、非甾体抗炎药、艾司西酞普兰、抗反胃药和止痛药(阿片类药物/布托类药物)。在不同的情况下,针对不同类型和程度的头痛分别使用。
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