Treating Early Versus Treating Mild: Timing of Migraine Prescription Medications Among Patients With Diagnosed Migraine

Abstract

These results suggest that patients with migraine often delay their treatment until they have identified their attack as a migraine. In addition, while many patients treated their follow-up headache early, they did not treat when the pain was mild. This suggests that there is an opportunity for physicians to educate their migraine patients on how to differentiate migraine from other headache types and about when and how to use their acute-migraine medication.