post coital headache vs pois (flunarizine)

[Daveman]

Did my post re sumatriptan succinate & coital headache get declined?

Nope!

I came across a forum in which a lady claims to have overcome her post coital headaches after her doctor precribed Sumatriptan Succinate, aka Imigran.

Thank you, I'm sure this may help some of us here.

[Vandemolen]

I think that POIS triggers the migraine. And a few symptoms which we see as POIS symptoms might be migraine symptoms. Like these symptoms:

Loss of concentration, forgetfulness, photophobia, difficulty with speaking.

So flunarizine can help you to get rid of a few POIS/migraine symptoms. The next time I see my doctor, about 6 weeks, I will ask him to prescribe me flunarizine. If you don't have problems with your blood pressure maybe it would be good to talk about flunarizine with your doctor.

[nomore2013]

i found this post on page 639 on Naked Science Forum

lauracostis
23/01/2012

What they think happens in a migraine is that the vessels at the base of the head constrict, this causes the vessels higher up in the head to dilate as a compensatory mechanism to counteract for the decrease blood flow, this dilation causes the headache.  The triptians selectively bind to 5ht receptors and cause the dilated vessels in the upper head to constrict, which relieves the headache.  I get post-coital headaches and used to use sumatriptian, which worked great for the headaches and pois in general.  The only problem was that the more I used sumatriptian the less effective it became, I also started to get more and worse headaches from over use(rebound headaches).  Even if I did not get a postcoital headache, I would still take the sumatriptian and it would kick my pois in the ass pretty good.   I would recommend using the Imitrex sparingly to treat only your worst postcoital headaches.