New Migraine Drug May Stop Pain with Fewer Side Effects

The disabling headaches experienced by 30 million Americans, most of them women, are commonly treated with drugs when nonprescription analgesics don’t help.

But migraine patients often must weigh the benefits of drug treatment against uncomfortable side effects such as dizziness, chest and throat tightness, tingling sensations and flushing.

Patients with a history of cardiovascular disease can’t use the effective migraine drugs, triptans, because they constrict blood vessels.

Researchers at Mayo Clinic and other medical centers have been looking into a new migraine-specific drug called telcagepant as a promising alternative that would produce fewer side effects than the established treatments.

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