The FDA order applied to all of the Midrin equivalent medications. The only other true abortives for home use are the triptans and ergotamines. The ergotamines have a high blood pressure warning as well.
However, when blood pressure is kept under control with medications, many patients are able to use triptans or ergotamines. Actually, if Midrin had ever gone through the clinical trials, it might well have had a blood pressure warning to since it contained an ingredient that constricted blood vessels.
Keep your eyes open for new acute medications in development — the ditans and the gepants. I have used this drug for over 50 years to prevent my migraines. I take it when I get the visual aura, and the headache does not occur. Without this drug, I am now doomed to suffer excruciating headaches for the rest of my life.
I am in a panic. I hope something happens to fix this situation. I think the FDA is treating it like a painkiller. It is not a painkiller. It will not help the pain of a migraine once it occurs. It is for use only during the aura phase and it works to prevent the headache. Please note that Midrin was not a preventive. It was a Migraine abortive. For some people, it did work when taken during the headache phase. The problem is quite simple — none of the companies producing Midrin or its equivalents ever did the clinical trials to prove its efficacy, even though they had many years to do so.
This makes me want to break down and cry. Is that correct? All rights reserved. FEIN Click Here. Skip to content. Author: Teri Robert.
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