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MAXALT  (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE):  Rizatriptan is used to treat migraines. It helps to relieve headache, pain, and other migraine symptoms (including nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light/sound). Prompt treatment helps you return to your normal routine and may decrease your need for other pain medications. Rizatriptan belongs to a class of drugs known as triptans. It affects a certain natural substance (serotonin) that causes narrowing of blood vessels in the brain. It may also relieve pain by affecting certain nerves in the brain. Rizatriptan does not prevent future migraines or lessen how often you get migraine attacks.   FDA Approval Date: 1998-06-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  Disabling migraine Groggy, bad taste in mouth, dry mouth, visual disturbance and photophobia up to 24 hours after migraine, hyper sensitive to smell, change to colour and smell of urine, foul body odour, hangover type feeling for 18-30 hours after migraine clears. ***i have experienced frightening serotonin syndrome symptoms almost immediately after taking MAXALT when cluster migraines have caused me to miss a dose of SSRI meds*** It clears my migraines better than anything else. If I can take it immediately my pre migraine symptoms occur, no side effects and only mild migraine develops and clears within 60 minutes. If taking MAXALT once migraine symptoms have begun, it takes around 2 hours to clear and puts me to sleep for about 40 mins:but I awake without the severe pain. MAXALT is a godsend for me. At best other treatments only reduce the pain by about half, and shorten migraine duration to around 24 hours. The side effects are worth it - except for the serotonin syndrome which is scary; I now keep a dosette box so I can check whether the SSRI has been administered: and if not, I take it with the MAXALT. F 49 1 years
2X day
8/31/2015
 3  Migraine Depends on what other drugs I've taken, sometimes sleepy, tired, mentally dulled; I experienced serotonin syndrome when I used it with nortriptyline. It always makes my blood pressure go up, but that time it went up to 212/130. You should be very careful what drugs you take with triptans. For me any of the triptans just delay the headache. If I have a bad migraine and I absolutely have to be somewhere, then I'll take a Maxalt, and it almost always works, but 24 hours later the headache is back and worse than before. Seems like I have to have my 2-3 days of migraine regardless. F 61
9/10/2007
  

MAXALT  (RIZATRIPTAN BENZOATE):  Rizatriptan is used to treat migraines. It helps to relieve headache, pain, and other migraine symptoms (including nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light/sound). Prompt treatment helps you return to your normal routine and may decrease your need for other pain medications. Rizatriptan belongs to a class of drugs known as triptans. It affects a certain natural substance (serotonin) that causes narrowing of blood vessels in the brain. It may also relieve pain by affecting certain nerves in the brain. Rizatriptan does not prevent future migraines or lessen how often you get migraine attacks.   FDA Approval Date: 1998-06-29 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

     

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