A painful migraine headache usually occurs with severe symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light. In many cases, a throbbing pain is felt on only one side of the head. The pain is often so severe that the victim is left incapacitated for hours; condemned to a dark silent room. The exact cause of these headaches is not clear but, the one thing is clear; the desire to find a medication to treat the migraine pain. As of now, the exact cause of these horrible headaches isn’t clear so, preventing them isn’t possible and medical professionals are limited to treating the pain. Some people that get migraines have warning symptoms called an aura that happens before the actual migraine headache begins giving them vital time to take a medication that is designed to treat the specific pain.
Since, we can’t prevent it; knock it out!
Imigran tablets contain sumatriptan succinate; belonging to the drug class of serotonin agonists.It is thought that a migraine headache is caused by the widening or dilating of some blood vessels in the brain. The tablets work by helping those vessels to become normal again and alleviate themigraine. All forms of the medication is ineffective in easing the symptoms of other types of headaches, and are not found to be addictive with prescribed use. But, as with anything that is good, there is usually some bad.
Migraine suffers should never take this medication in any form if they have or have had the following health conditions:
- Heart attack or stroke
- pain in the chest, jaw or arms.
- pain in the back of your legs or experiencepins and needles in the hands and feet.
- Angina.
- liver disease
- High blood pressure
- Stroke.
The migraine medication should be avoided if you have taken any of these medicines in the list below in the last 24 hours:
- Dihydroergotamine (Dihydergot)
- Ergotamine (Cafergot)
- Methysergide (Deseril)
- Naratriptan (Naramig)
- Zolmitriptan (Zomig)
How much does it take to help kill the pain?
The medication is obtainable by prescription only and is mainly supplied in tablets. The recommended dose for adults is 50mg;but you might need to have your dose increased to 100mg. Before you take this medication visit your doctor, he should be able to give you the proper dosage and answer any questions you might have about the drug, good luck!
