Table 9.
Medication and illicit substance use.
| N | % | |
|---|---|---|
| How quickly do you initiate abortive treatment to stop and/or to treat symptoms? | ||
| Immediately | 2046 | 48.2 |
| Within one hour | 1368 | 32.2 |
| One to two hours | 410 | 9.7 |
| Two to four hours | 157 | 3.7 |
| More than four hours | 37 | 0.9 |
| N/A | 227 | 5.3 |
| Reasons not treated immediately | ||
| I need to make sure it is really a migraine | 899 | 18.8 |
| Don’t want to waste medication | 1086 | 22.7 |
| I get a lot of false alarms | 114 | 2.4 |
| I don’t want to overuse medications | 1239 | 25.9 |
| Other | 330 | 6.9 |
| Illicit Treatments | ||
| Used a drug that was not prescribed to treat migraine | 1056 | 26.1 |
| Ever used illicit drug to treat migraine | 385 | 9.5 |
| Used marijuana | 806 | 19.9 |
| Used alcohol to treat migraine | 289 | 7.1 |
| Used nicotine/tobacco to treat migraine | 189 | 4.7 |
| Ever avoided a medication because of side effects | 2699 | 66.8 |
| Ever stopped a medication due to side effects | 3034 | 75.1 |
| Stopped due to: | ||
| nausea/vomiting | 1075 | 22.5 |
| stomach ache | 600 | 12.5 |
| rebound headaches | 1378 | 28.8 |
| dizziness | 966 | 20.2 |
| cognitive challenges | 1677 | 35.0 |
| other reason | 1687 | 35.2 |
| Avoided medicine due to cost | 1961 | 48.9 |
| Withheld medication because you wanted to “spare” or “save” medication | 3055 | 76.1 |
| How many different prescription products do you currently use to treat migraine | ||
| 0 | 295 | 7.4 |
| 1 | 662 | 16.6 |
| 2 | 969 | 24.3 |
| 3 | 839 | 21.1 |
| 4 or more | 1215 | 30.5 |
| How many (if any) prescription products have you EVER USED to TREAT your migraines? By “ever used” we mean that you have ever taken at any point to treat your migraines. | ||
| 0 | 23 | 0.6 |
| 1 | 108 | 2.7 |
| 2 | 289 | 7.3 |
| 3 | 415 | 10.4 |
| 4 | 412 | 10.4 |
| 5 | 311 | 7.8 |
| 6 or more | 2422 | 60.9 |
| How much would you estimate that you pay out of pocket monthly for medications and care related to your migraines, including insurance co-pays? | ||
| 0–100 | 1824 | 45.5 |
| 101–250 | 1135 | 28.3 |
| 251–500 | 469 | 11.7 |
| >500 | 288 | 7.2 |
| not sure | 297 | 7.4 |