Hello,
It is normal procedure to ask for an
MRI is the patient describes his headache like abnormal (not an usual
migraine). MRI allows us to eliminate other diagnoses that needs a treatment in emergency like dissections, tumors, brain
hypertension etc.
That is not your wife case. The lacunar brain infarcts are small infarcts mostly related with a small
artery disease that doesn't couse headache.
Concerning the antiépileptic drugs they can be prescribed in small doses to treat the headache. That does not mean that your wife is epileptic.
About the médication to take to calm down her headache it depends on the kinf of head ache she has.
Is the blood analyses normal?
If yes it seems to be a primary headache. The treatment depends on the caracteristics of head ache, if unilateral, if pulsatile, if she had
migrane before, if she doesn't support noise and light if it gets worse with the physics activity it might be a migraine.
Paracetamol and profenids are the first line treatments. Triptans second line treatment (if first line does not function) with natrium naproxene. In any case she may take amytriptiline 5 drops in the absence of contreindications.
Hope I have answered your queries. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr. Jora Xhaxho