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. 2022 Nov 3;14(11):e31068. doi: 10.7759/cureus.31068

Table 1. Characteristics of the patients.

AMD: monthly acute medication intake days; CM: chronic migraine; EM: episodic migraine; HIT-6: Headache Impact Test-6; IQR: interquartile range; TTH: tension-type headache; MHD: monthly headache days; MOH: medication-overuse headache

Case number Age (years) Diagnosis Comorbidities Medication Onset age 0-month HIT-6 0-month MHD 0-month AMD Prescribed prophylactic medication 1-month HIT-6 1-month MHD 1-month AMD 3-month HIT-6 3-month MHD 3-month AMD
1 28 EM Dysmenorrhea Low-dose pill 10 55 1 1 Propranorol, goreisan, goshuyuto 51 1 1 49 1 1
2 50 EM Oral cancer - 40 58 14 8 Propranorol, goreisan, goshuyuto 54 10 4 50 8 3
3 54 EM - - 22 64 4 4 Propranorol, goreisan 46 1 1 45 0 0
4 25 EM+MOH Dysmenorrhea Low-dose pill 17 63 10 12 Valproic acid, goreisan, goshuyuto 63 4 8 57 4 4
5 28 EM+TTH+MOH - - 16 64 28 12 Did not want 64 28 8 Referred to another clinic
6 26 EM+TTH+MOH - - 21 64 28 28 Amitriptyline, goreisan, goshuyuto 54 14 8 Referred to another clinic
7 32 CM+MOH - - 26 62 16 16 Valproic acid, goreisan, goshuyuto 61 18 2 54 6 3
8 61 TTH - - 18 55 28 0 Goreisan, yokukansan 53 17 0 54 14 0
Median (IQR) 30 (28-51) - - - 20 (17-23) 63 (57-64) 15 (9-28) 10 (3-13) - 54 (53-62) 12 (3-17) 3 (1-8) 52 (49-54) 5 (2-8) 2 (0-3)