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#1 Wed, 07/08/2024 - 09:50
Lu Lu
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Pregnancy and safe treatments

Just wondering if anyone has knowledge about how safe Frovatriptan is during pregnancy? I currently take both sumatriptan injections when an attack hits and Frovatriptan tablets morning and night when in cluster as more of a preventative (as prescribed by neuro). I'm aware this is a lot of triptan but it's what keeps my clusters under wraps for the most part. There isn't much research that I can find into Frovatriptan specifically so just wondered if anyone had any experience?  Thank you kindly!

Lucy

Wed, 11/09/2024 - 05:04
Phil
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copied from an earlier post:

"... regular use of Frovatriptan does lower its halflife so for each continued days usage it often drops its effectiveness by half.

Day 1 - 12+ hours effective (per tablet)

Day 2 - 8 hours effective (per Tablet)

Day 3 - 6 Hours 

Day 4 - 3 Hours"

 

That regime, in my opinion, has probably rendered your Frovatriptan ineffective by now anyway.

Twice daily?? I'd have serious concerns if a neurologist prescribed that to me.

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 07:54
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Hi Lucy

If you ring our Advice Line on 0800 6696824 they'll be happy to chat to you about this.

Dorothy (Trustee)

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