I've seen others with known heart conditions report here that imgran was dicey for them and they can't use it. Over the past 15 years or however long its been since it came on the market I've used probably hundreds of injections by now without a side effect.

I'll definitely get pain in the upper jaw around the back teeth area during an attack - I know this is common, leading many such as myself to have had their wisdom teeth extracted in the misguided belief that the pain could be originating from there.

thanks for your reply to both my comments, its much appreciated, i suppose every one reacts differently to drugs, and im just curious to see how other peolpe are affected...you said you've used imigran, could you tell me how it works? if i have it when an attack starts does it just get rid of the pain of that attack or does it last for hours, preventing more attacks? as sometimes i can have upto 8-10 attacks in one night! i dont fully understand how it helps?

its funny you saying that about jaw/tooth pain, as i have had 2 teeth pulled over the past few years, thinking it was them that was causing all the pain. and being mis-guided by DRs/dentists, obviously it wasnt!

in a way i'm glad i know what's causing it, at least i can stop having my teeth pulled out... 

kind regards

I tried Imitrex pills and found them useless. I am assuming this is a pill. There the ch would start i would take the pill and after the Ch was gone maybe the pill did something...

I switched to injections, and found the auto injector gave me too much which is typical of may of us, and so learned the Q-Tip trick listed on the left sidebar menu.

I thought that worked well, untill I got rebounds from Hell.

I tried no more drugs unless you consider breathing o2 a drug.

That works for me now and has for years.

If you never tired that, I suggest you do. There is masks you can buy from this site, others have. Your Doctor should have mentioned this if he knows anything.

You need bottled 100% o2 and nothing less, and a high flow rate.

Since i am a mechanic welder i just use torches o2 and make sure the actelene is off. I breath off my fist which is wrapped tight around the torch grip with no head mounted.

What happens is a hard shadow wakes me up, and I get dressed fast, having my clothing all laid out and ready.

Then I go to the shop in the barn breathing deeply as i walk there, to get out the warmed air i was breathing in my bed room.

I grab the torch grip, turn on the tank, turn on the grip knob and sit down in a lawn chair I have waiting and breath deeply at 45 psi, turning the knob off between breaths.

I was told to hold my breath 30 seconds, but that caused me to become winded and tired, so I do 10 seconds instead. I try to exhale thru my nose, in the hopes that remaining o2 will get thru to my bloomin EYE....

Like you I lost 2 perfectly good teeth to this blasted beast.

Last: When I read about o2 I looked alot like this   

I was WRONG. Get o2

edited typos to make real words 

Zyprexa is what I would use for a good nights sleep.... I take 5 or 10 mg (I forget the exact dose) at 1st onset and it would take me through the night.

Oxygen is my first line of defense, but Zyprexa tends to work very well for me.

Some docs even have samples of Zyprexa!!!!

Otherwise, pain free days and nights ahead!!!!

I use both the inhalers and the injections.  The injections are a quick delivery so I get a little flushing but that passes quickly and the pain is eliminated.

Actually I welcome that tingly flushing feeling. It forcasts a soon to be be pain free experiance.

I was also thinking about bringing up the melatonin (even though it doesn't help me personally), but if I remember correctly its not sold over the counter in the UK.