Cafergot made me feel so sick. My doctor ended up taking me off them. Since you have to take them at the first signs of a migraine, I thought what is the bloody point when I had to lay down for a couple of hours after taking the Cafergot anyway !! Might as well just have taken panadine forte/Mersyndol and be done with it.

Anyway I am now on the preventative. Sandomigran. You take one a night at bedtime, and get 100 in the pack. I am due for AF anyday so not sure if I have been on Sandomigran long enough to prevent a migraine, since I am only on day 3. A side effect though, it is giving me bad gas from the rear end LOL. Hopefully that will settle when the body is used to it. Sandomigran is also meant to prevent cluster headaches, but wont stop "tension" headaches.

I have to see my GP in a month, cause if it doesn't prevent it you can up the dosage. You can take a max of 9 a day but I said to my husband if it ever got that bad I would rather just go back on Imigran, cause I know within 30 mins of that hitting the system the migraine has eased up.

Love