For migraine sufferers
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I think we have a few WTFers who get migraines. Passing this along.
A drug to treat migraine, ubrogepant, is also found to reduce common non-headache symptoms that occur in the hours preceding a migraine headache, according to the results of a large phase three clinical trial published in Nature Medicine. The findings suggest that ubrogepant may be the first acute treatment for the symptoms that occur before migraine, which have a considerable impact on daily function.
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I thought I might have written about this here (or at the old WTF) before, but I changed my migraine meds about two years ago, and one of the ones I now use is this one, ubrogepant, which I take as an acute medicine (i.e., as-needed), and the other one is atogepant, which I take every day. IIRC these meds are related (and of course their names are similar).
These medicines changed my life. It was amazing. Both of them are very new, neither had been available for more than two years when I started them. And there are maybe two other new migraine meds that came out at the same as well, one is an injection. But they give people treatment options that were never available. And for people like me, they are much, much more effective and allow us to go off of meds that have nasty side effects.
Now whenever I learn that someone has migraines, I always tell them to ask their doc about changing medicines. I joke that I should do one of those testimonial commercials.
