All 3 patients had two additional atherosclerotic or nonatherosclerotic risk factors for stroke, suggesting that vertebral artery hypoplasia combined with other conventional risk factors may provide an optimal background for brainstem ischemia.
Category B anti-headache medications include Tylenol (acetaminophen); Reglan (metoclopramide), which is used for nausea but also may relieve a mild headache; and over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Advil and Motrin (ibuprofen) or Aleve (naproxen) only during the first and second trimesters.
If you are pregnant, you must not take Vicodin without discussing it with your doctor first. Sadly, for some women, headaches are a fact of daily life. Pregnancy doesnât always alter that fact and some Moms-to-be suffer miserably with regular headaches that they wish they could wave a magic wand over.