The Daily Migraine - Migraine Headache Treatment for Extended Migraine

Where do pills fit into my migraine headache treatment?

A large component to effective Migraine Headache Treatment revolves is trigger elimination. A main contributing trigger to many people's migraines is actually the medication they take to abort (kill) the migraine in progress.

This medication (Triptans, opioids, OTC pain killers, etc.) causes a condition called rebound headache.

Most people who seek out migraine headache treatment from their doctor, only to find their migraine headaches occurring more frequently or more severely, are most likely suffering from rebound headache.

There is a situation where it's worth biting the bullet, getting the abortive medication and getting yourself migraine relief.

NOTE: If you're otherwise healthy[link to imitrex warnings], a Imitrex, Axert and Zomig are very effective. I've found Imitrex to be far and away the most effective triptan on the market. I have not tried Treximet, Pozen and GlaxoSmithKline's new version of Imitrex that combines, basically, Imitrex with Aleve. This drug was approved in April, 2008 and my migraine headache treatment eliminated my migraine headaches before the drug hit the market.

If you are suffering from a migraine headache that has lasted several days, you're not getting sleep, you're pouring Ibuprofen, Aleve, Tylenol, Excedrin Migraine, etc down your throat trying to get rid of this terrible headache, just STOP!

Get yourself into a doctor and ask for an injection of Imitrex. It will work almost immediately, aborting the headache with very little side effects...

...at first. All triptans, including Imitrex, lead to rebound headaches, which you should avoid at ALMOST all cost.

Here is the exception to the rule: A migraine that lasts more than two days should be aborted, rebound be damned!

If your doctor won't or can't give you the Imitrex injection, ask for a prescription to Imitrex (the generic, Sumatriptan, is now available in the US) or Treximet, if your insurance will cover it.

Get the prescription filled, take one pill, and relax. You have aborted this terrible, unending migraine headache.

This migraine headache treatment, as I mentioned before, if used more than a couple times in a month, will send you into a rebound headache cyle that will prove more frustrating than the original migraine.

You will get a migraine attack that seems worse than the original, take one of your new pills and find relief. But then you'll have ANOTHER MIGRAINE ATTACK the next day or the day after! Then you'll take another Imitrex. Soon, you'll be having these attacks nearly everyday.

The stress from dealing with these suddenly VERY frequent migraine headaches will make the severity worse, cause you to spend endless hours seeking out a new migraine headache treatment (which is probably how you found this site in the first place), and cause you to take more and more Imitrex.

Soon, you won't get enough Imitrex to fill the need.

NOTE: You'll find that most insurance providers won't pay for more than 18 pills in a month. Many only pay for 9. For years, I could not understand why. I was suffering from daily migraine headaches, and my insurance company would only pay for half of them to be treated! Why no one explained to me that these pills CANNOT be taken more than a couple times a month is, well, a WHOLE other issue...

So in closing, don't be afraid to use a triptan to abort a migraine that just won't go away. You will be able to see the world with clear eyes -- and that is the only way to seek out a safe and effective migraine headache treatment.