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How to Use

Do not use eletriptan for a headache that is various from your usual migraines . Instead, check with your family doctor.

To relieve your migraine as soon as possible, use eletriptan as soon as the headache pain begins.

You may get additional benefit from eletriptan if you lie down in a quiet, dark room after taking eletriptan.

Ask your family doctor ahead of time about any other drug you may take if eletriptan does not work After you take the other drug, check with your family doctor as soon as possible.

If you feel much better after a dose of eletriptan, but your headache comes back or gets worse after 2 or more hours, you may use one additional dose of eletriptan. Do not take a second tablet if the first did not help your headache at all. However, use this drug only as directed by your family doctor. Do not use more of it, and do not use it more often than directed.

Dosage

Follow your family doctor's orders for preventing migraine.

• For oral dosage form - tablets:
  • For migraine headaches:
    • Adults 20 milligrams - mg or 40 mg as a single dose. If the migraine comes back after being relieved, another dose be taken two hours or more after the first dose Do not take more than 2 doses in any twenty-four-hour period
    • Children Use and dose must be determined by your family doctor.

Storage To store this drug:

• Keep out of the reach of children.
• Do not store in the bathroom, near the kitchen sink, or in other damp places. Heat or moisture may cause the drug to break down.
• Store away from heat and direct light.
• Do not keep outdated drug or drug no longer needed. Be sure that any discarded drug is out of the reach of children.