Hemicrania continua for the headache. When the symptoms of hemicrania continua are present, it's considered "diagnostic" if they respond completely to indomethacin. The efficacy of indomethacin may not be long term for all patients, as can eventually become ineffective. The factor that allows hemicrania continua and its exacerbations to be differentiated from migraine and cluster headache is that hemicrania continua is completely responsive to indomethacin. Triptans and other abortive medications do not affect hemicrania continua. In addition to persistent daily headache of HC, which is usually mild to moderate (and frequently severe), HC can present other symptoms. These additional symptoms of HC
Affliction (1997 film) most countries. After a limited release in New York in December 1998, it saw its regular US release in January 1999. The film received mostly positive reviews with an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critic Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film 4 stars. Janet Maslin in "The New York Times" wrote "[Nick Nolte] gives the performance of his career in Paul Schrader's quietly stunning new film [...] Like "The Sweet Hereafter", a more meditative and elegant but less immediate, volcanic film, "Affliction" finds the deeper meaning in an all too believable tragedy." In a negative review in