Migraine Relief IV Therapy in Edmonton

IV therapy can help treat a migraine attack that is already happening. The medicine goes into a vein, so it still works when you can't keep pills down. Results vary from person to person. It may fit when:

• ✦Your usual migraine medicine did not help
• ✦Nausea or vomiting makes pills hard to keep down
• ✦Vomiting has left you dehydrated
• ✦The attack feels like your past migraines

The IV migraine medications are the same medications given in the ER. There is no need to stay hours waiting in the emergency room to treat your acute migraine.

These are prescription medicines, not a vitamin drip. Your prescription sets which ones you get and the dose of each, including magnesium.

• ✦Normal saline: replaces fluid lost to vomiting
• ✦Ketorolac (Toradol): anti-inflammatory pain relief
• ✦Anti-nausea medicine: settles nausea and vomiting
• ✦Decadron (dexamethasone): may lower the chance the migraine comes back
• ✦Magnesium: often used during migraine attacks

Call 911 for a sudden severe headache that is different from past attacks, or for stroke signs such as new weakness, numbness, vision changes, confusion, trouble speaking or trouble walking. Go to the emergency room for fever with a stiff neck, a headache after a head injury or new severe symptoms during pregnancy. An infusion clinic cannot provide emergency imaging or stroke care.