Migraine headaches symptoms and treatment

Friday, January 26, 2007

Effective migraine treatment-Zomig

What is Zomig?

Your doctor has registered to you Zomig. It concerns to triptain group - the specific preparations developed for a cupping of attacks of a migraine. Its action consists in blocking painful impulses at a level serotomim receptors. Zomig it is effective at


  • migraines with aura and without aura
  • PMS migraines
  • migraines at awakening
Zomig eliminates not only a headache at an attack of a migraine, but also signs accompanying it (a nausea, фото-and a phonophobia). Action Zomig comes quickly and lasts till 24 o'clock, that warning development of returnable and is persistent -current attacks of a migraine.

In clinical tests at long application Zomig (till 1 year) accustomings to a preparation it has not noted been. Zomig is issued in tablets on 2.5 mg. The preparation is appointed the doctor in view of your condition and accompanying diseases. If you have risk factors of development of cardiovascular diseases (high arterial pressure, a high level of a cholesterin of a blood, an obesity, Diabetum, cardiovascular diseases at members of family, for women - the period of a menopause, for men - age after 40 years), you should inform on it to the doctor who will check up a condition of your cardiovascular system before appointing Zomig.

For what it is intended Zomig?
Tablets Zomig are applied to a cupping of attacks of a migraine, but not for prevention of attacks. Accept Zomig only at development of an attack of a migraine.

Questions which need to be solved prior to the beginning of treatment Zomig
If you answer YES even one question or do not know how to answer, it is necessary for you to consult with your doctor before you will start to accept Zomig
  • there Are at you pains behind a breast bone or in the field of heart, a dyspnea, faults in work of heart? Whether you suffer cardiovascular diseases? Whether there were at you attacks of a stenocardia, a myocardial infarction?
  • there Are at you risk factors of development of cardiovascular diseases (high arterial pressure, a high level of a cholesterin of a blood, an obesity, Diabetum, cardiovascular diseases at members of family, for women - the period of a menopause, for men - age after 40 years)?
  • you Suffer an idiopathic hypertensia?
  • you Are pregnant? Whether you plan pregnancy?
  • you Apply reliable contraception to prevention of pregnancy? Whether you nurse now?
  • It was necessary to you to stop treatment by any medicines because of development of allergic reactions or for other reasons?
  • you Accept other preparations for treatment of a migraine, including triptans, the preparations containing Ergotaminum, byhydroergotamyn, or metisygrid?
  • you Accept preparations for treatment of depression (inhibitors a monoamine oksid or selective inhibitors of return capture of a serotonin)?
  • you (or suffered earlier) Suffer diseases of a liver or kidneys?
  • there Were at you attacks of an epilepsy or insults?
  • this headache Differs from the previous attacks of a migraine?
Remember, that if you have answered YES any of the set forth above questions, it is necessary for you to consult with the doctor.

Zomig and pregnancy
During pregnancy Zomig it is not applied. Do not accept Zomig if you think, that you are pregnant or plan pregnancy until will consult with the attending physician.

How to accept Zomig?
Adults are recommended to begin with a dose of 2.5 mg Zomig. If necessary, probably to accept a smaller dose, having broken a tablet of 2.5 mg half-and-half manually. If signs persistently proceed or again arise within 24 hours, reception of repeated dose Zomig can be demanded. If the repeated dose is required, it should not be accepted within 2 hours after the first dose. If you do not test sufficient simplification after a dose of 2.5 mg, the subsequent attacks of a migraine can be treated Zomigом in a dose of 5 mg, preliminary having consulted with the attending physician.

The essential effect is shown within 1 hour after reception Zomig.
It is impossible to accept more than 15 mg Zomig day. Do not accept a tablet or their parts stored unpacked.

Possible by-effects
Some patients feel a pain or gravity in a thorax or a neck after reception Zomig. If the similar phenomena were observed at you, consult with the doctor before repeated reception Zomig is required to you. If the pain in a thorax strong or does not pass, urgently contact the doctor. The difficulty of respiration, a dyspnea, palpitation, puffiness of blepharons, faces or labiums, dermal rashes, a urticaria meet seldom. If at you one of the similar phenomena has developed, immediately contact the doctor. Do not accept more Zomig before consultation of the doctor. Separate people feel prickings, a heat, gravities after reception Zomig. In rare cases patients marked a sleepiness, a giddiness, weariness or feeling of weakness. Inform your doctor on any not clear sensations.

What to do at overdosage Zomig?

If you have accepted a preparation more, than it was offered to you, urgently contact your doctor, an acute management or the toxicological center. The preparation leaves personally to you in connection with your disease and should not be accepted by associates for any reasons.

How to store Zomig?
The preparation should be stored in a place inaccessible to children. Store a medicine at a room temperature, far from sources of heat, light and humidity. If the period of storage of a medicinal preparation has expired (a date closed of a period of storage is specified on packing), it should be thrown out. If your doctor for any reasons has decided to interrupt the appointed treatment, do not store the remained preparation. Be convinced, that the thrown out preparation is inaccessible to children.