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100 mg Results for oral sumatriptan 100 mg were consistent between trials and those for two hour headache response are shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 Headache response at two hours Table 1 Results for oral sumatriptan 100mg
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response sustained for 24 hours with no additional analgesic was 6 7 5 0 to 9 9 in 1 632 patients in four trials Oral sumatriptan 50 mg Figure 1 Headache response at two hours Table 1 Results for oral sumatriptan 50mg
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specific therapies Nonspecific treatments include analgesics antinausea medications and sedatives Table 1 These therapies are effective for treating mild to moderate migraine pain Table 1 Nonspecific Headache Medications Specific acute care medications include dihydroergotamine DHE and the triptans sumatriptan rizatriptan zolmitriptan naratriptan eletriptan and
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Figure 3 Choice of migraine therapy Figure 4 Choice of migraine therapy Patients who have frequent headache episodes are then categorized according to the severity of their headache Those who have mild to moderate headaches
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Table 2 Migraine Specific Rx Pharmacokinetics Table 3 Migraine Specific Rx Efficacy Differences in half life also have a clinical effect in terms of recurrence of headache Table 2 The
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Table 2 Migraine Specific Rx Pharmacokinetics Table 3 Migraine Specific Rx Efficacy Differences in half life also have a clinical effect in terms of recurrence of headache Table 2 The half life of most of the available medications is
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have not been well studied which prohibits you from offering useful advice to your patients Table 5 quantifies the effectiveness of the nonmedication prescriptions that have been studied Table 5 Effectiveness of Nonmedication Prescriptions Headache education prevention and treatment Headache education is a critically important treatment for patients Such education does
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of migraine involves changes in vascular dilation neural activation and muscle spasm Currently it is believed that migraine occurs as a result of a 4 step process Figure 1 1 Figure 1 Neurovascular hypothesis of headache Step 1 A trigger be it physical chemical or psychological prompts a chemical change in the dorsal raphe and locus ceruleus leading to the
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In actual clinical practice or in other clinical trials these frequency estimates may not apply as the conditions of use reporting behavior and the kinds of patients treated may differ Other events that occurred in more than 1 of patients receiving IMITREX Tablets and at least as often on placebo included nausea and or vomiting migraine headache hyposalivation
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