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mapleleaf CH.com Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 4 x0\|welland\|Canada\|\|0\|0\|ON,Ontario	Relpax Jul 16^th, 2009 at 10:02am Back again after 3 years - started June 23 and have 1 a day since then- most started between 7 and 9 pm moved back to 5 to 6pm and now happen around 1:30 pm. Scale of 4 to 9 over the time and last 1/2 hr to 2 1/2 hrs. Dr. gave me Relpax ,seemed to have helped pain subside but for last 4 occurences doesn't seem to be effective. Any experience with Relpax??
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Re: Relpax
Reply #1 - Jul 16^th, 2009 at 10:40am

Relpax has been marketed for migraine. I just did a search of med literature re. use with Cluster and found only one article and that in 2004. The absence of more reports suggests that it has not been found useful for CH.

Given the range of triptans which have proven useful for Cluster, I'd ask your doc to use one of the more established abortives.

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Re: Relpax
Reply #2 - Jul 16^th, 2009 at 10:47am

MY experience:

It's a member of the Triptan family of meds along with: Imitrex, Axert, Amerge, Zomig, Frova and Maxalt.

Relpax was formulated to have a longer half life - to last longer in your system. For ME, it was not effective because it took too long to work. But that's true for all tablet forms of Triptans. Injectable and nasal spray versions work much faster.

It will provide a good night’s sleep if I use O2 to abort the attack while I'm waiting for it to kick in. But then so do all of the others, with Amerge being the most effective for THAT purpose.

Simple oxygen therapy is easily my first choice to stop an attack in its tracks in minutes.

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mapleleaf CH.com Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 4 x0\|welland\|Canada\|\|0\|0\|ON,Ontario	Re: Relpax Reply #3 - Jul 16^th, 2009 at 11:10am Thanks for the info - have appt. next week - will see about nasal spray to see if that works better - maybe by then I will be out of cycle !!! 3 weeks is longest of the sessions I have had in past 6 years ( first one 6 years ago was about 4 days then 3 years later it was for about 5 days )
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Marc Ex Member Gender:	Re: Relpax Reply #4 - Jul 16^th, 2009 at 9:40pm Wow, 4 days then 5 days with a 3 year break...........
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Pixie-elf CH.com Hall of Famer Offline I've tried the rest, and busting is the best! Posts: 517 Beaumont,Tx Gender:	Re: Relpax Reply #5 - Jul 18^th, 2009 at 3:46am I have a friend who uses relpax for his clusters. (He's not in cycle right now, thank God.) But it was the only thing he found that helped him. It really depends on your body's chemestry and what you need. He took the injections of it. You may just have to try different triptans until you find the right one for you.
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cluster_mom CH.com Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 7 x0\|Fort Atkinson\|USA\|\|0\|0\|WI,Wisconsin	Re: Relpax Reply #6 - Jul 31^st, 2009 at 3:11am I believe that Relpax is on my long list of things that I've tried and haven't worked. But then again for me the newest Treximet also hasn't been that effective for me. The Relpax didn't work for me at all, the Treximet took too long to work with a rebound shortly after.
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