The study team found that sleep quality and energy were important indicators of a migraine attack on the following day. Migraine preventionKnowing when a migraine is coming can make all the difference — especially with growing interest in treating one before it starts, Tepper said. A migraine attack isn’t just a headache. It makes sense that people might be conservative about using medication for migraine pain, Tepper said. “There’s no downside because rimegepant has almost no side effects and is not associated with transformation into chronic migraine,” Tepper said.

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Persons: ”, Kathleen Merikangas, “, Stewart Tepper, Tepper, wakefulness, ” Merikangas, ” Tepper, —, rimegepant, Kylie Petrarca, Merikangas Organizations: CNN, Intramural, National Institute of Mental Health, New England Institute for Neurology Locations: Stamford , Connecticut