triptan

Comment: This has by far been the most effective triptan for me.

You may need to take more than one dose of a triptan if your headache returns.

But take the triptan exactly as it has been prescribed by your doctor, because potentially serious side effects can occur.

The purpose of the surgery is to provide a permanent 'triptan or ergot effect'.

You may have to try more than one triptan to find the one that works best for you.

Assessment of efficacy may be contaminated by how the triptan is encapsulated in order to mask active treatment.

It is a triptan, used in the acute treatment of migraine attacks with or without aura and cluster headaches.

The triptan prevents blood vessels from dilating.

For example, you may take acetaminophen or naproxen along with a prescription medicine, such as a triptan.

Other patients might need triptan.

The imitrex injector is the most effective triptan, always clears the headache in 15-60 minutes.

It is a second-generation triptan.

They found that when a triptan is given early, before cutaneous allodynia develops, it effectively terminates the migraine.

A systematic review found that "rizatriptan 10 mg was the only triptan with a recurrence rate greater than that of placebo".

You may find that combining a triptan with a nonprescription medicine (such as acetaminophen or naproxen) helps to stop your headaches better.

Methysergide was developed in 1959 and the first triptan, sumatriptan, was developed in 1988.

If you do not find relief with one type of triptan, a different triptan may be more effective in reducing your migraine symptoms.

Many patients have a recurrent migraine later in the day, and only one such recurrence in a day can be treated with a second dose of a triptan.

Almotriptan is the only oral triptan approved in the USA for the treatment of migraine in adolescent from 12 to 17 years of age.

The drug is still prescribed, but has largely given way to other drugs for migraines, including triptan and beta blockers, given to ward off a headache before its onset.

But it is hard to know which triptan is the most effective.1 A triptan that works well for someone else may not work well for you.

Eletriptan (trade name Relpax, used in the form of eletriptan hydrobromide) is a second generation triptan drug intended for treatment of migraine headaches.

Frequent migraines are best treated preventively, with rescue medication - like a triptan or an opiate, perhaps combined with aspirin, amphetamine and caffeine to relieve a breakthrough headache.

Dahlof credits in particular the improvements in migraine drug therapy in recent years, especially the use of the newer triptan drugs, which are taken at the start of the pain.

Rizatriptan (trade name Maxalt) is a 5-HT1 agonist triptan drug developed by Merck & Co. for the treatment of migraine headaches.