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tucki CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 12	Frovatriptan Jun 8^th, 2011 at 2:56pm Hello, in Germany we read something about Frovatriptan. Did anyone know Frovatriptan? In Germany there are many cluster-people in which very good results were achieved with Frovatriptan.
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Bob Johnson CH.com Alumnus Offline "Only the educated are free." -Epictetus Posts: 5965 Kennett Square, PA (USA) Gender:	Re: Frovatriptan Reply #1 - Jun 8^th, 2011 at 3:17pm There are several medications in this "family" of drugs. They different in how quickly they become effective and in how long they are effective. This allows the doctor to select the drug which is best for the pattern of a patient's attacks. On this site, Frova is well regarded but not as popular as sumatriptan.
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tucki CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 12	Re: Frovatriptan Reply #2 - Jun 8^th, 2011 at 3:29pm thanks for your fast answer My husband wants to avoid the side effects of sumatriptan. He hope frovatriptan is an alternative medication. Unfortunately we don´t know what medication will help. We know since 2 years that this pain is clusterheadache and so we must try to find out what help him. have a nice day
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thebbz Ex Member	Re: Frovatriptan Reply #3 - Jun 8^th, 2011 at 5:59pm Never MIX triptans. Frova or sumatriptan one or the other, never both. Wait at least 24 hours before switching. all the best the bbb
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Reply #4 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 8:04am

About side effects, two things: first, remember while the published side effects can happen it does not mean you will experience them. They tend to be present in only a very small statistical portion of those tested. Second, everything has side effects, even coffee. The question is how well it works for you and are its side effects easier to live with than is the pain? No one knows how anyone will react unless they have tried it first. Some medications may be ruled out because of other medical reasons, but in general your husband needs to be open to finding whatever will work to ease the suffering. Blessings. lance

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Bob Johnson CH.com Alumnus Offline "Only the educated are free." -Epictetus Posts: 5965 Kennett Square, PA (USA) Gender:	Re: Frovatriptan Reply #5 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 8:45am See the PDF file, below. It lists the commonly used medications for Cluster.
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Reply #6 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 8:51am

thebbz, thanks for answer. I think he don´t mixed triptan. My husband have a "Emetophobie" (I don´t know the english word), so he try everything to prevent nausea and read all about side effects Roll Eyes

so I will come to wimsey1
you see: my husband is a little Smiley

. This "Emetophobie" is terribly unnerving to me Roll Eyes

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After a loooong (VERY long) talk about the side effects and the positive effects he gives me right Wink

sometimes he is a very difficult person Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Jun 28^th, 2011 at 2:30pm

I use Sumi here in the states. It basically just masks down the pain to a tolerable(functioning) state. If taken pre attack. Usually as I see some others do I pray I can beat the beast w/o the meds and then it's 20 mins of waiting for med relief cause I was weak and need the meds. However that state sucks to inhabit. For 6 weeks I'm constantly tired. Totally over medicated, 2/100mg a day is not enough for 5-8 headaches a day. I'm non social for fear of an attack or fear of appearing retarded due to over dosing the Sumi.
All my training is now down the drain for at least a month. I also med up at work to avoid any attack possibly happening for the next few hours. Background: I work camera/video on live sports remotes. Shooting while an attack is happening is nearly impossible. Wearing a headset with a dozen voices in it is unbearable during an attack. So I premed up to avoid it. I know my work suffers but it's better than being unemployable.
So as for the Triptan Family I'd say their good for making one a functioning Zombie. I'm there but mainly I'm not.
After 5 yrs of this I'm gonna try the Busters Method. I've done shrooms in college. Maybe it's why my clusters came in my early 40's. Which is late by some standards. Regardless, bottom line is these are undoubtably the worst pain I've ever had(2- L-5 ruptures don't compare) and I'd eat anything repeat anything if I thought for a moment that this would break my 6 week cycle. I know the Triptans won't. They may make it worse. But as Chris Rock says there's no profit in a cure and Big Pharma is still pissed about curing polio.
God Bless all CH'ers
I hope Busters work and will report my results. I pray it does.
Peace All

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