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I have had migraine all my life, even as an infant. Over the last 4...

Tana

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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I am 62 and have lived with migraines all my life.  After my last 6 week series of daily migraines I had to stop taking Triptans because of rebound headaches.  I added another preventative, Tizanidine, and have started doing acupuncture.  My headaches are more managable now and I use Migranal to stop the worst ones. 

Has anyone else gotten so they can't use triptans?  If you have ,can you ever go back to using them?  I find the after affects of taking the Migranal pretty bad, plus it takes 2 hours to relieve the pain.  Triptans, when they work, work so quickly and you can get back to work right away.  It would be convinient to be able to use triptans again.

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