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Migraine treatment options
By Mayo Clinic staffAlthough there's much you can do to help prevent migraines — such as avoid triggers, exercise regularly and keep stress under control — most people who live with migraines also need medication.
Fortunately, medication options for migraines have expanded greatly in the last decade — giving you more choices than ever for keeping migraine disruption to a minimum. Some of these drugs were originally designed to treat other conditions, such as epilepsy or hypertension.
Migraine medications can be divided into two broad categories of treatment:
- Acute, to be taken only when you have a migraine
- Preventive, to be taken every day to ward off migraines
Various nontraditional and emerging therapies may be helpful in some cases, too.
Acute pain relief for migraine Migraine self-assessment
