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Hi guys, After about 5 months free, I think I can confirm that the D3 regimem really works. In the past 20 years, I tried almost every medications possible without any great success. The best scenario was about 15 attacks/month. Thanks to this site and especially to Batch for the great help. I am now completely free. From my part, the D3 regimem will reduce the frequency and severity of the attacks. Combined with Verrapamil, it completely stoped my CH. Even my doctor his amaze of how well I am. Thanks guys for your support and help for giving me my life back.

Some links I found. 35 year old woman with coronary artery disease has a heart attack after first dose of SQ sumatriptan. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7783891 56-year-old female patient with migraine who experienced a myocardial infarction shortly after using sumatriptan, despite having had a normal cardiovascular evaluation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8682677 Risk of severe cardiovascular adverse events after the use of a triptan is estimated at 1:100,000 treated attacks http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20977405 42-year-old man with episodic cluster headache without history of coronary artery disease who was admitted to our coronary care unit for acute myocardial infarction after 3 h of subcutaneous injection of sumatriptan. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16601942?dopt=Abstract If you keep looking there are more. Most cases, but not all involve people that already were experiencing some sort of heart condition. There are also a good amount of people reporting chest pain that turns out to most likely NOT involve any sort of heart problem. (There is something to also be said for the fact that just because you have not been diagnosed with a heart problem, that could still mean that you just have an UNDIAGNOSED heart problem) My take on everything I have read--if you have a pre-existing heart condition I would be pretty wary of taking sumatriptan. For the rest of us, be on the lookout for dangerous side effects but personally I am not too worried about it. There are a number of weird cases out there involving sumatriptan possibly having a negative cardiac event but with the unbelievably huge number of people that have at this point taken the drug with no problems, I'm not convinced it's something I should worry about enough to stop taking sumatriptan. I would however be very wary of mixing sumatriptan with certain meds (like verapamil). Anybody have any other cardiac info on sumatriptan, whether from research or anecdotal? -Ricardo

After hearing from several of you suggesting making this thread a "sticky", it is done. I feel that it is that important. BB

Sumatriptan caused me to have 51 attacks in 7 days. I have stopped taking it and do not plan on taking it again. It seemed to make the pain worse too. IÂ’m still having a couple a week. Somewhat keeping them at bay with verapamil. Physicians will continue to prescribe it because they are making money on it, kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies and dinners at nice restaurants. They do not care about the patience and it is all about the $$. This goes for profit, not for profit and county health care providers. All of them make a lot of money! This is why my neurologist will not prescribe me O2. I have been asking for it seven years! IÂ’m getting a welding tank. I worked in healthcare for 7 years at the corporate level at saw this first hand at a not for profit and at a county hospital.