Treatment

Modern treatments can be very effective in treating a migraine attack. It is therefore very important that you talk to your doctor about the best way for you to control your migraine attacks and to make sure that there are no other reasons for your headaches.

The management of your migraine may mean that you have to take some medicine, but it may also involve some changes to your lifestyle.

There are two main types of medicines used in patients with migraine. There are those medicines which are used to treat a migraine attack whilst you are having it – treatment of the acute attack. Other medicines may be taken all the time to stop an attack happening in the future. This is known as preventive or prophylactic treatment.

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