Other Headache Types: Medication Overuse Headache (MOH): Treatment
The first step in dealing with MOH is to stop the daily use of analgesics: butabarbital (Fiorinal/ Esgic/ Bellergal), narcotics, tranquilizers/ muscle relaxers, caffeine, ergot preparations, and Tylenol. The acute withdrawal of the drugs does exacerbate the headache, but your neurologist can work with you to develop a transitional therapy to help minimize or alleviate withdrawal symptoms. 

The goal of withdrawal is to eliminate daily or near-daily medication use and its associated symptoms, to restore an episodic pattern of headache, and to establish an effective treatment strategy including both preventive and acute medications.

Up to 75 percent of patients improve when drug overuse is discontinued and minor analgesics are used with preventive measures.