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Hi All,   Thank you for your responses. After searching through this site I came across an interesting suggestion: steroids to help wean off of triptans.   So I emailed my doctor with my situation of taking too many triptans, and he agreed to try out steroids to help taper off the triptans. He gave me 40 mg of Prednisone for the first day, 35 mg for day two, 30 mg for day three, etc.   It worked great! I didn't have a migraine for eight days (=miracle for me)! But...as soon as I was finished with the Predinsone, my migraines came back at their regular frequency (3-4x/week). Bummer.   Was eight days not enough to break any cycle I could have been in? Do I simply get migraines this often, and maybe they are not MOH? I've always had a very difficult time telling the difference between the two...they all feel like a migraine to me even after reading the articles on this site and Teri's book. Isn't it possible to simply be a person who needs more than two triptans a week because they truly do get more than two migraines a week?   To answer other questions posed to me: I don't know of any migraine specialists in my area (I've searched high and low!), nor could I afford one (I'm a poor graduate student with lousy insurance). I've located an affordable doctor who knows a little bit about migraines and is willing to work on meds with me. He sent me to a "specialist" at one point, but I'm still paying off that bill...   Sorry if that sounds like rambling...I mostly just wanted to share my experience with Prednisone. Hope it helps someone!   ~LiSaV