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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.
1 Your doctor may prescribe triptans, medications that block pain signals in your brain. Triptans often may relieve pain from your headache within two hours and help to control vomiting.  Take pain relievers and triptans. Some women may take a combination of NSAIDs and triptans to relieve pain from menstrual migraines.