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Triptan Migraine Medications

April 24th, 2008

You might want to consider migraine prophylaxis if you:

•  Have migraines that significantly interfere with your daily functioning, even after treatment

•  Have two or more migraines a month.

•  Experience little or no relief from migraine treatments

•  Have significant side effects from migraine treatments

•  Use triptan migraine medications (eletriptan [Relpax], sumatriptan [Imitrex], zolmitriptan [Zomig], and other drugs with a generic name ending in ‘-triptan’) more than twice a week, and/or

•  Have unusual migraines, such as prolonged auras, weakness or paralysis just before or during headaches, or complete loss of blood flow to areas of the brain during migraine.

If you’re considering preventive migraine treatment, it’s important to understand that there are just a few medications for which the medical evidence is indisputable. The American Academy of Neurology, the professional organization of thousands of headache specialists in the United States, issues clinical guidelines rating treatments according to the strength of the medical evidence supporting them.

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