Bitter sweet success

[NeitherHere]

I gave in and finally got back on imitrex (sumatriptan) and immediately remembered why I quit.

 

My doctor 4x my dosage. When I first started taking it years ago it made me sick and I was going through so much I didn't realize the imitrex was why it was happening. 

 

This time I was at work and GOT REALLY SICK AND DIZZY. I almost quit taking it on day 3 and decided to just keep going. Now it seems to be effective, reducing the intensity and severity of latent attacks even off dose and all. It's "working" but I'm a bit worried about participating in my busting program (that is also a personal spiritual deal for me) I know at least one thing I use is absolutely off the table because it can cause life threatening interaction.

 

I haven't had an attack in a few days off the imitrex until a light shadow this morning. Took my tablet and it's all gone. I'm wondering, how do you know it's safe to taper off or quit for the time being. How do I know "it's passed" while on the tryptans? This isn't a clean cut ordeal like busting tends to be... 

[FunTimes]

Are you saying that you take sumatriptan every day as a preventative? I don't know that is the best idea, the stuff is kind of bad for you and is normally only used as an abortive in a last ditch effort for most.  It will also block your busting, you should keep off of it for at least 5 days before busting. 

Any way you can get oxygen for an abortive and eliminate the need for the triptans all together? Oxygen is a much cleaner method of dealing with each cluster. And Sumatriptan in pill form is also the slowest way to abort a cluster, taking up to 30 minutes to kick in, they make auto injectors that will work much faster and you can split the does in half. A lot of information is on this site about all of this. Poke around and use that search box at the top of the page, ask questions and we will all do our best to help you out with things we have tried.