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LSUnut
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 11:40am » |
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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. 
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 12:11pm » |
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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...
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 12:39pm » |
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It worked for me most of the time but seamed to loose it's power over ch,amerge worked better
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #4 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 1:00pm » |
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With either of these, how long (on average) after taking the pill does it take to start working on a CH ???
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #5 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 1:13pm » |
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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
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #6 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 1:22pm » |
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Relpax takes 15-20 minutes, imigrane nasal is faster 5-10 mins only it tastes horrible...
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Re: Relpax....ever heard of it?
« Reply #7 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 2:10pm » |
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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.
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