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(Message started by: noonch on Oct 29^th, 2003, 11:30am)

Title: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by noonch on Oct 29^th, 2003, 11:30am

Well, went to another doctor yesterday. She gave me a few samples to try. One is Relpax (eletriptan HBr)

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/relpax.htm

40mg pills.

The other is Maxalt-MLT (riztriptan benzoate)

http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic2/rizatrip.htm

10mg dissolving tablets.

She also gave me another prescription for Blockadren, which worked well in the past as a preventative.

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by LSUnut on Oct 29^th, 2003, 11:40am

As you can tell by the actual medicinal name of the first two drugs that you listed, they are triptans. All of these abortive drugs, the two you listed as well as imitrex, zomig, and amerge are all in the same category. These are 5-HT (serotonin) receptor agonist, meaning they stimulate the devil out of those recetors causing very focussed vasoconstriction. The fact that you've been given a new one either means that others have been less effective for you or another big pharma has entered the scene trying to profit from our pain. It's not a bad thing though, some will work better than others due to selectivity and differences in receptors from person to person. ;)

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by Cooked Brain on Oct 29^th, 2003, 12:11pm

Relpax works for me, just takes a little to kick in though but is 95% effective with relieving the pain and about 70% with complete abortion of an attack. Unfortunately triptans are very expensive...

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by Boots on Oct 29^th, 2003, 12:39pm

It worked for me most of the time but seamed to loose it's power over ch,amerge worked better

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by noonch on Oct 29^th, 2003, 1:00pm

With either of these, how long (on average) after taking the pill does it take to start working on a CH ???

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by Boots on Oct 29^th, 2003, 1:13pm

relpax was slow for me 15 to 20 min,sucked o2 the whole time also.used amerge for preventive took 1/2 a pill twice a day

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by Cooked Brain on Oct 29^th, 2003, 1:22pm

Relpax takes 15-20 minutes, imigrane nasal is faster 5-10 mins only it tastes horrible...

Title: Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
Post by Prense on Oct 29^th, 2003, 2:10pm

Maxalt never worked for me, but it takes a little over an hour for it to be completely absorbed into the system. That is not saying that it takes an hour to get relief though. BTW, the pills absorb slightly faster than the MLT version.