Migraine Headache
All About Migraine Medicines
To tackle severe headache migraine, medications at
times become indispensable. The migraine medicines have become essential
to fight migraine symptoms, since the severe headache makes a person
restless. Migraines can also be treated with the help of natural
headache relief methods. The field of headache research is growing fast
to find cure for different type of headaches. For more information on
Medicines for Migraine, read Have
You Tried These Medicines.
Following are
the medicines used for migraine headache relief:
*Beta-blockers-
These include propranolol, metoprolol, and atenolol.
*Amitriptyline
(antidepressant)- Most often, amitriptyline and a beta-blocker are used
together.
*Anticonvulsants- Medicines called topiramate and sodium
valproate are known as anticonvulsants. Basically, they are used to
prevent epilepsy. Howsoever, it has been found that these might prevent
migraine attacks as well.
Other medicines that can be tried
include methysergide, gabapentin, pizotifen,lisinopril, calcium channel
blockers and selective serotonin inhibitors (SSRIs).
Who should
one take a migraine medicine? There is no definite strata for this. You
may consider the following option, if you have any of them, you may take
the medicines:
* More than two migraine attacks per month.
*
Less frequent, but severe migraine attacks.
* You are using a lot of
painkillers or other tablets to treat migraine attacks.