Why you should avoid ‘toughing out’ a migraine attack

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Kevin Weber, MD, MHA: A patient should avoid toughing out a migraine attack because a lot of times the rescue treatments work better the sooner they're taken during the migraine attack. So for instance, a lot of patients will sometimes wait to see if their headache is going to turn into a full-blown severe migraine attack, and by that time it sometimes it's too late, and then their migraine attack that may have lasted a few hours or all day turns into a two or three day affair. So we recommend patients take their rescue treatment early on in the migraine attack, if at all possible.
 
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