While I was teaching and I needed 8 hours of cluster free time, I was using cafergot suppositories. The stated limit was 5 per week, which was fine for teaching 5 days a week. The weekends were nightmarish. It was as if all the clusters I hadn't gotten through the week got their chance and took advantage of the cafergot free weekends. The O2 that normally worked like magic wouldn't work, it was a miserable but necessary trade off.
Cafergot has ergotermine, derived from ergot which comes from a fungus that can grow on improperly stored rye grain. Linneda Caporeal a Behaviorial Psychologist beleives that the "Salem Witches" behavior was actually ergotimine posioning from eating rye grain that had been improperly stored and was infected with fungus. So if you are accused of being a witch, you may want to cut back on the cafergot a bit.

I used cafergot tabs for many years.  The limit is 10 per week but I would average 25 to 30 tabs per week.  Only side effect I had was constantly cold fingers & toes from lack of circulation.

Are your sores still there or did they go away?  Was it from the medicine?

Saxman, I've used cafergot for the past 15 years and except for circulation (overuse) being a little sluggish nothing else to note.

I never did read the directions and side effects - just use it when its needed and like most chronics overused it probably to the abuse point at times. But except for naseau (which I take phenergan along with it for that) I've never noticed any side effects.

Glad you're over this episode. Hope it's a long time till the next one.

Hugs BD