Does Caffeine Help Migraines?

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Need a drug with caffeine but no barbiturate to replace Cafergot?

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my Cafergot is discontinued tried Fioricet made it worse need a caffeine drug with no barbiturate thank you duane.
         

 

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Dear Duanne;

 

Cafergot is a Migraine abortive medication, which means that it actually works to stop the Migraine, not just mask the pain or other symptoms for a few hours. Fioricet is not a Migraine abortive.

 

Other Migraine abortive medications don't contain caffeine. The other abortives are the triptans (Imitrex, Maxalt, ...

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