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How to Use

Do not use naratriptan 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 naratriptan as soon as the headache pain begins. Even if you get warning signals of a coming migraine - an aura, you must wait until the headache pain starts before using naratriptan.

Lying down in a quiet, dark room for a while after you use this drug may help relieve your migraine.

Ask your family doctor ahead of time about any other drug you may take if naratriptan does not work After you take the other drug, check with your family doctor as soon as possible . Headaches that are not relieved by naratriptan are sometimes causing by conditions that need other treat.

If you feel much better after a dose of naratriptan, but your headache comes back or gets worse after a while, you may use more naratriptan. 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 . Using too much naratriptan may increase the risk of side effects.

Your family doctor may direct you to take another drug to help prevent headaches. It is important that you follow your family doctor's directions, even if your headaches continue to occur . Headache-preventing medication may take few weeks to start working. Even after they do start working, your headaches may not go away completely. However, your headaches must occur less often and they must be less severe and easier to relieve. This can reduce the amount of naratriptan or other pain medication that you need. If you do not notice any improvement after few weeks of headache-preventing treat, check with your family doctor.

Dosage

• For oral dosage form - tablets:
  • For migraine headaches:
    • Adults 1 or 2.5 mg as a single dose. If the migraine comes back after being relieved, another dose may be taken four hours after the last dose Do not take more than 5 mg in any twenty-four-hour period - one day.
      Patients with kidney or liver disease must take less than 2.5 mg as a single dose once daily and must not exceed 2.5 mg in a 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 since overdose is especially dangerous in child.
• Store away from heat and direct light.
• Do not store tablets in the bathroom, near the kitchen sink, or in other damp places. Heat or moisture may cause the drug to break down.
• Do not keep outdated drug or drug no longer needed. Be sure that any discarded drug is out of the reach of children.