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Reviewer: Gail, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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I have used this medicine by injection as I have extreme nausea during a migraine episode. It has always come through for me ... just be careful as re-bound headaches often follow 12 hours later.
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Reviewer: 55-64 Female on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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this the best, fastest working, migraine reliever ever. Use at the first symptom and my migraine is gone in less than 10 minutes.
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Reviewer: lhampton, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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I have not experienced another migraine headache since the first time I've used this medication, which have been about 6 months. I don't know if it has anything to do with the first dose of this medication or not. I usually have a migraine every other month, but since using this medication, I haven't experienced another one. The medication makes me feel warm all over, and it last for a
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Reviewer: want-to-be-migraine-free, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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I have suffered from frequent migraine's,for over 10 years, I have tried a lot of diff. meds, when I first started using Imitrex Injections, they worked great after a while, my migraine's stopped responding to this medication, It really worked at first and I was very pleased, now nothing!
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Reviewer: JDmigraine, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have suffered from migraines for 15 years and have tried everything. I was given the injections recently and had to use them while at work for the first time. Easy to use but after about 5 minutes I felt like I was having a heart attack that lasted about 20 minutes. I had left arm pain and pain into my jaw and almost called an ambulance. My doctor said it was normal and not to worry. It did
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