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What Is Headache Rescue Drug?
Discussing Migraine medications can get confusing, partly because there are so many, partly because they're used for different purposes. Migraine medications fall into three categories -- preventive medications, abortive medications, and rescue medications.
Preventive Medications
Preventive medications are taken daily to reduce the frequency and severity of Migraine attacks. Most doctors recommend preventive medications if you average one Migraine a week or more. Some people are...
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From Our Experts
Migraine Term of the Day: Rescue Medication
When we're looking at Migraine and headache information, whether it's from our doctor, a book, or an online article, we sometimes come... Read more »
Migraine Rescue: FDA Pulls Darvon and Darvocet
Darvon and Darvocet (and their generics) have been used as Migraine rescue medications and for treating some other headache disorders.... Read more »
Migraine Abortives and Rescue Meds Confusion
From recent conversations, it seems that there is some confusion about what medications can and cannot abort a Migraine attack. This can be... Read more »
A New Look At Your Rescue Inhaler
In this entry, I would like to discuss the implications of some recently published basic science research on the function of beta agonists... Read more »
Migraine and Headache in the ER: New Report
Emergency department visits for headache disorders, Migraine in particular, is the topic of a report issued this month by the Agency for... Read more »
From Our Sources
Rescue Medication, Migraine and Headache Glossary
Rescue Medications are those taken if abortive medications fail or if we can't take the abortive medications. Most rescue medications are pain... Read more »
Using Symbicort as a "rescue" drug may cut risk of severe atta...
A new study has found that using Symbicort as both a preventative asthma medicine and as a "rescue" drug cuts asthma patients' risk of having severe... Read more »
Study: Asthma patients rely on rescue inhalers too much, preve...
Asthma patients may be relying too much on rescue inhalers to control their asthma and too little on effective asthma management drugs, a recent... Read more »
Current Migraine and Headache Clinical Trials
The number of visits to this page indicates that most of our members don't read or count on this information about Migraine and headache clinical... Read more »
Treatment Options for Migraine Headache
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Migraine Headache
Goals of Treatment of Migraine HeadacheThe goals of treatment for people with migraine headaches include: Reduce the frequency, severity, and... Read more »
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