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How do you treat patients with hemiplegic migraine?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The is no agreed-upon treatment for hemiplegic migraine. I have often used NSAID’s acutely, occasionally triptans, and rarely steroids when nothing is working. The relatively new acute care gepants could be tried, but I have not done that as these patients are hard to find.
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Answer from: at Community Practice
I would treat a patient with hemiplegic migraine no different from any other migraine patient with a triptan or gepant abortively and, if needed, a gepant or CGRP antibody preventively.