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To: tuck who wrote (711)	9/24/2002 8:13:20 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Respond to of 1005

One triptan (I've only tried one) has changed my life. I urge anyone who has problems with headaches, whether or not you call them "migraine", to consider a triptan. I had reached the point where one of four weeks were spent in bed, and where suicide was a frequent consideration. Severe headaches were a way of life, from my mid-teens. I would sit through business meetings with friends and collaborators, trying to appear "normal". The pain was often so severe that sleep, at home or on business travel, was impossible to achieve. For 1 1/2 years now, I have not had a headache that has not resolved within 15-30 minutes of taking a triptan. I average about five doses per month, and it's dropping. I could never keep commitments...... if I went out in public, in pain and under stressful situations, vommiting was always a possibility. Tension headaches beget tension. What finally precipitated my trying the triptan? I had a SEVERE gut bleed, winter '00/'01. I injured my shoulder and was prescribed indomethacin. Once past that, I was bleeding but dealing with headaches as I knew best..... aspirin, acetominophen, caffeine. The gut bleed was not diagnosed correctly, BTW. Confirmed by biopsy, it was diagnosed as ulcerative proctatitis. Or perhaps it was diagnosed correctly, and triptans are also good for UP. :-) But what do you learn from reading the clinical trials for various triptans? They don't work for everyone. Sort of like Iressa??