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(Message started by: froman on Sep 19^th, 2003, 8:42pm)

Title: axert
Post by froman on Sep 19^th, 2003, 8:42pm

has anyone used or heard of taking axert for cluster headaches? All the info I found on it relates soley to migraines.

Title: Re: axert
Post by Prense on Sep 19^th, 2003, 9:55pm

I have never used it...there are several meds used for both meegraines and CH though.

Title: Re: axert
Post by Karla on Sep 19^th, 2003, 10:18pm

I have used it and find it as effective as Imitrex.

Title: Re: axert
Post by Carla_Comiter on Sep 19^th, 2003, 11:23pm

Dear Froman (no G ::)

Funny you should ask. My doc gave me Axert samples today. It's a *triptan and related to Amerge (which works well for my CH and migraines.)

Doc says sometimes a drug will pass FDA standards for one diagnosis and be released so that it can be made available while testing/documentation are completed for other diagnoses.

So, I wouldn't worry about it saying just migraines.

Carla (no G here, either ;)

Title: Re: axert
Post by stuey on Sep 23^rd, 2003, 3:59pm

I used it once and it worked as well as any other triptan pill I took as long as i took it a half hour before the devastation. Actually Relpax worked faster but this worked too.