Treatment for chronic migraine
You might want to consider migraine prophylaxis as treatment for chronic migraine if you:
· Have migraines that significantly interfere with your daily functioning, even after treatment
· Have two or more migraines a month.
· Experience little or no relief from migraine treatments
· Have significant side effects from migraine treatments
· Use triptan migraine medications (eletriptan [Relpax], sumatriptan [Imitrex], zolmitriptan [Zomig], and other drugs with a generic name ending in ‘-triptan’) more than twice a week, and/or
· Have unusual migraines, such as prolonged auras, weakness or paralysis just before or during headaches, or complete loss of blood flow to areas of the brain during migraine.