Trager et al, Association Between Spinal Manipulation, Butalbital Prescription, and Medication Overuse Headache in Adults With Tension‐Type Headache: Retrospective Cohort Study, Health Science ...

People can occasionally feel mild nausea with a chronic tension-type headache. The pain from tension headaches causes discomfort, but it is not usually severely disabling, as migraine episodes can be.

Drugs currently used for treating chronic tension-type headache only reduce headache frequency by about a third and are associated with side effects. Topiramate, an antiepileptic drug with ...