Fw: IV Dihydroergotamine 3-5 Day Series
Blondielou, I've been hospitalized and given IV DHE (along with Reglan for nausea and I think they put in a steroid of some type as well..) four separate times now over aboutr ten years....three times in a hospital after my neurologist referred me...and once about six years ago at the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago. Truthfully.....it may have stopped my migraines and chronic daily headaches...for about three or four days.....then all the pain came back regularly....to my disappointment! Each time I was hospitalized for about five to ten days duration. I also gave my self injections of DHE-45 when I would get a migraine and then used the DHE nasal spray...it usually didn't help. I now use Zomig tablets..it works best for me, out of all the triptans....but maybe about 25% of the time....the rest of the time, the migraine goes on. Hope this helps! Christy