Welcome! If you’re a new visitor, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After all the discussion here about the side effects of Topamax, it was interesting to read the research about Topamax for children that was published last month.
In reality, there hasn’t been a lot of testing when […]

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Atenolol, sold under the brand name Tenormin, is from a drug class commonly known as beta-blockers.  Beta-blockers (beta-adrenergic blocking agents) have a long history of success as migriane preventatives.  Although they’re not the first line of attack, they have worked with some patients who have not responded to the more usual migraine medications.
But what about […]

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A world where you can inject yourself without a needle?  Well, we’re one step closer.
I’ve injected myself with medication - maybe you have too.  There are few things worse, in my opinion, than asking someone with a migraine attack to poke something sharp into her/his skin.  But the technology is progressing through the system - […]

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A team of researchers led by Dr. Francesca Coppola from the University of Perugia (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Italy, recently investigated some side effects of the drug topiramate, sold as Topamax.  Specifically, they were looking at patients taking the drug for migraine, as compared to patients taking other medications.  They wanted to see if […]

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Let’s face it.  Stocking up on drugs is not an idea that makes your insurance company happy.  But the challenge of having the right drugs on hand at the right time is adding to worldwide migraine pain.
This is actually a study from June 2007, but it’s worth looking at.  Dr. Robert A. Nicholson, assistant professor […]

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Back in early 2006 I wrote about a new class of migraine drugs that was in the testing phases.  It’s called a gap junction blocker, and the drug being tested is called tonabersat.  It’s time for an update!
A major phase of the clinical trials have been completed for tonabersat.  The results were encouraging, and reason […]

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Last month a new option was made available to people with migraine in Canada.  That option is another triptan drug - frovatriptan succinate, to be exact, or Frova.
Frova has had its ups and downs.  It has showed some promise particularly for menstrually related migraine.  It was heavily promoted (in a round about way) for menstrual […]

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