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>I used to take Sumatriptan, it was a life saver if you got onto it quickly. It's the opposite for me. If I take it too early into the migraine it sometimes d
by proverbialbunny 6y ago
>I used to take Sumatriptan, it was a life saver if you got onto it quickly.
It's the opposite for me. If I take it too early into the migraine it sometimes doesn't work. I will intentionally sit with the migraine for around an hour, or until it gets bad enough, then take sumatriptan and wait the 1h30m to 2 hours for the pain to go away. 2-3 hours of a headache is far better than a day of a full on migraine. Once I take it and it doesn't work it builds up resistance for at least 12 hours, so I'm stuck. I'll take the headache.
- aaronblohowiak 6y agoWow, amazing how varied people's responses to these things are! If I wait too long to take a triptan, its effectiveness reduces quite a bit. I generally try to arrest the migraine with ibuprofen but then take the triptan if it progresses.
- proverbialbunny 6y agoYep. At this point we shouldn't be thinking of a migraine as a singular thing. Sure, singular symptoms, but there are so many different varied causes and conditions that it can not be a single illness. Sometimes when migraine medicine does not work for me, it's because it's a headache not a migraine. I have some over the counter "migraine strength pain killer" pills which are acetaminophen, asprin, and caffeine, which works most times the migraine medicine does nothing.
- cameronh90 6y agoThat sounds oddly curious to how psilocybin resistance works. With mushrooms, you have to take the entire dose at the outset. As soon as you can feel it, you now have a strong resistance and any further dose will have a greatly diminished effect.
- smcleod 6y agoI hear that's not the case for everyone ;)
- proverbialbunny 6y agoYep. It's a triptan, so closer to lsd, but same sort of premise.