Gout, Acute
"I am surprised no one has complained about the terrible headache side effects. For the past six months, I have taken indomethacin on 5 different occasions when I feel a severe gout attack coming.  I would start with 100mg 3x a day for the first two days, followed by 50mg 3x a day for 8 days after. It always worked and prevented a full-blown gout attack.  However, I always got a headache while taking this medicine (supposedly a very common side effect).  Most recently, however, I experienced a headache so severe that I had to leave work.  I thought it was the intra-dose withdrawal headache that I normally got from this medication, so I took another pill hoping I would feel better, Immediately I vomited. "