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Roxy
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Question about Relpax
« on: Jun 26th, 2004, 1:05pm » |
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Does anyone here take Relpax on a daily basis? I'll only need to take it nightly for a couple of months, but I seem to have a bad history of triptan effects.
I'm going to try splitting a pill tonight, see if that will hold me through the night. Right now I'm getting hit around 7 times a night, but workwise, for the next few months, I can't be up all night with my head.
Anyone using this much Relpax?
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Re: Question about Relpax
« Reply #1 on: Jun 26th, 2004, 1:41pm » |
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Hey Roxy,
Ever try amerge or frova? I've never taken relpax, but I think the amerge and frova have longer half lives than the relpax and they are sometimes used as preventive measures (short term) for CH and menstrual migraine to name a few. The frova didn't do anything for me, but amerge helps me a lot!!! I don't know the effects of long term use for a couple months though. Sorry I can't comment on relpax!
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Re: Question about Relpax
« Reply #2 on: Jun 26th, 2004, 5:31pm » |
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I was using Relpax everyday for six days and off one and then for six and so on, I would get at least 8 hrs. pf sometimes up to 12, but I never tried splitting the pills so I don't know how that would work.
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Re: Question about Relpax
« Reply #3 on: Jun 26th, 2004, 9:45pm » |
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For over a year I take Eletriptan (Relpax) before bed time. Dose: 20 mg (one half of a 40 mg pill, since Pfizer makes the price per pill, not the amount of active stuff, duh).
Before that I used for a long time Naratriptan (Amerge), one half of a 2.5 mg pill for the same purpose.
BTW, Lizzie, Frovatriptan is the only one with a long half life time (26 h), all the others are in the range of 2 - 4 hours.
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Re: Question about Relpax
« Reply #4 on: Jun 27th, 2004, 8:41am » |
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Well Amerge isn't close to 26 hours, but it has a 6 hour halflife which is why they allow me to take it. My doc won't allow me to take anything with a short halflife because it'll rebound my other headache. (ie imitrex)
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