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Levadex – inhaled migraine drug on the way

by James on 19 January 2010

Levadex is something new, and it isn’t.  It’s a new formulation of dihydroergotamine mesylate (DHE), known by many as DHE 45 (an injection) or Migranal (a nasal spray where the drug is accompanied by caffiene).  DHE was introduced in the 40s, so it’s been around in various versions for a long time. This new version [...]

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DHE Migraine Treatment: Why some people still use it

by James on 20 February 2009

To get some background on DHE migraine treatment, we need to go back to the days before DHE, or dihydroergotamine, was used.  It was actually in 1925 that the first migraine patient got an injection of ergotamine tartrate.  It worked – stopping the migraine that just wasn’t going away. In 1943 came the next step [...]

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Migraine Nasal Spray – Should You Try One?

by James on 19 January 2009

Of the many methods we have to get migraine medication into the body, one of the earliest and best to be used on a mass scale is the migraine nasal spray (also called a nasal inhaler).  Part of the reason is that the technology was fairly simple, as opposed to some of the advance methods [...]

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