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These therapies are effective for treating mild to moderate migraine pain. Specific acute care medications include dihydroergotamine (DHE) and the triptans (sumatriptan, rizatriptan, zolmitriptan, naratriptan, eletriptan, and frovatriptan).These medications both inhibit dilatation of meningeal vessels and reduce abnormal neural activation.he half-life of most of the available medications is approximately 2 to 3 hours; those with longer half-lives (eg, DHE nasal spray, naratriptan, eletriptan, and frovatriptan) have lower recurrence rates (15% to 20% vs 30% for other triptans). Recurrence with triptans tends to occur within 8 to 12 hours.
But it is also used to treat chronic pain, particularly the pain of migraine and tension-type headache, but also cancer pain and arthritic pain. Sometimes nortriptyline is given along with gabapentin (Neurontin) for certain types of pain. Gabapentin is an anti-convulsant, also prescribed for migraine prevention.