-Re: Asking for suggestions regarding headaches/imitrex

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Hi Sue,

WOW... My doc still asks me to take it, even if I get those awful

side effects... If you saw my post a little while ago, I guess that

what I am experiencing is something like what you had with it... I

have had it with all the ergotrates. Still I got a new one again not

long ago, so my doc hopes every of the new ones will be better. But I

hate those side effects, IMHO feeling like you are having a heart

attack is even worse than the migraine. Even if the migraine gives me

excruciating pain to the point where I would eat rat poison if I

thought it would help, it sure does not help to have both a migraine

and the heart symptoms. Because that is what has happened sometimes,

the med has not worked well either, so then I had two things on my

hand. Imitrex did take the migraine though, but never Imitrex again.

Nothing could make me take it.

Aase Marit

> Hi,

> I have said this before, but some people have severe reactions to

>Imitrex! I had crushing 10+ chest pain the only time I ever took it, and

>truly thought I was dying. It caused spasm of my coronary arteries. There is

>a caution added on the television commercials and the drug literature, but I

>really wanted to let y'all know that it is a real threat. It is a wonderful

>med for those who can take it!

> My physicians said for me to never take it again....all ergotrates do

>this to me.