I remember reading a post recently in which a woman took amytryptaline after physical activity to prevent a migraine...I already take this medication (150 mg) every night as a preventative.
Today I got back from a long day out in the sun and started to get a headache. I decided to take one 25 mg amytryptaline and some ketoprofen. My headache went away and never came back.
I'm just wondering why the drug can act as a preventative and an abortive and if it is ok to use it in this way often?
Amitriptyline is only used as a preventive in Migraine. It cannot abort the Migraine process as triptans can.
If you were just starting to get a headache it was probably the ketoprofen that stopped it from getting worse since ketoprofen is an anti-inflammatory drug.
Maybe it was just luck and you caught it before you needed a triptan. I've had some luck with Skelaxin when I am at a 1 or 2, knocking down pain levels before it gets bad enough where I would need a triptan.
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