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What is Dihydroergotamine?

Dihydroergotamine is an antimigrane medication used for the treatment of migraine headache with or without aura; injection also indicated for treatment of cluster headaches.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Migraine headaches 4 1 Efficacy_moderate
Chronic Headache Disorder 2 1 Efficacy_moderate
Participate in clinical trial 1 1 Efficacy_slight
Other 1 0
Migraine 1 0

See all 5 patients currently taking Dihydroergotamine

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 0
None
 2

Reported Dosages

  1mg/mL as needed 1 monthly 3 mg daily
  3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Dihydroergotamine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 67%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 33%

See all 3 patients who’ve stopped taking Dihydroergotamine

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Dihydroergotamine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Stopped Taking Dihydroergotamine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Dihydroergotamine

Always
 3 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Dihydroergotamine

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 2 67%
Not at all
 1 33%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Dihydroergotamine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 3 100%

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Report created on May 28, 2012.