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Treatment efficacy based on patient questionnaire, broken into primary and secondary treatment medications
| Medication | Primary treatment |
Secondary treatment |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Improved (%) | n | Improved (%) | |
| Tricyclic antidepressant | 11 | 91 | 7 | 57 |
| Topiramate | 6 | 50 | 1 | 100 |
| Propranolol | 4 | 80 | 1 | 100 |
| Verapamil | 4 | 74 | 1 | 0 |
| Gabapentin | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Botox Injections* | 2 | 100 | ||
onabotulinumtoxin A injections administered per PHASE III Research Evaluating Migraine Prophylaxis Therapy (PREEMPT) protocol
