It does make me feel weird after taking it, but usually the feeling passes, at least for me, pretty quickly and then my head feels better. I actually use the Sumavel injection, which is sumatriptan, but because of the formulation I get less side effects than I do with the pills (I have the pills too). Maybe you can check into that one? It's really easy to use and it makes my headaches go away incredibly quickly.

Each triptan will work a little differently for people, so if you don't like the feeling, I would suggest trying another to see if you can tolerate the side effects more.

Sumatriptan was the first migraine medicine I tried 13 years ago. I actually took it for a year or more. For me, it works great the get rid of the headache...the best of all of the medicines I've tried. The headache would be gone in 30 minutes, but then I would feel like I was dying for about 1 1/2 hours. By "dying" I mean that I would experience chest pains and a general feeling of feeling horrible. Oddly enough, I put up with this for a long time, but I would make someone stay on the phone with me until the feeling would go away.

The feeling you are describing may be closer to what I feel from several other migraine medicines. It's a feeling of being extremely tired and disoriented. I am taking Naratriptan now. This gives me the least symptoms.

Relpax was the worst for me. Axert and Frova both made me feel a little out of it; however, I have to say that the sleepy feeling from Axert was more of a happy place for me. If I didn't need to actually function during the day, I'd gladly stay home and be sleepy in my Axert happy place.

The less drowsy I feel from the pills seems to be related with a longer time for the pills to work for me, unfortunately. The naratriptan I'm taking now takes 2 hours to kick in, but it's the best balance I have found so far.

I feel spacy after I take sumatriptan -- but I have no idea if it is from the med or a side effect from the migraine. It does help take the pain away.

I only feel it when I take the meds, so I know its not from the migraine itself. Frova used to work extremely well for me, i got the feeling i do from the sumatriptan only once, but i had also had a lot of caffeine that time. I had to stop taking it because my insurance would not pay for it anymore :\

Yes, this has happened to me a few times when I've had a small amount of alcohol around the same time as taking it. It's only for a few minutes- I feel like I'm spiraling into some deep panic that's almost paralyzing. It's so scary that I can't even tell anyone while it's happening because I feel like they'll judge me. It's the weirdest thing. It's like everything I know just falls apart and I being to doubt everything. At this point, I usually just go to sleep and it goes away. And I've learned to avoid it by not drinking on nights that I could get a migraine.

It happens every time I take my sumatriptan, and it lasts for hours. The only thing that helps get rid of it is sleep (and not always) but there are a lot of times I have to take one while im at work, so I am not able to sleep

Wow I must be one of the lucky ones. I take sumatriptan and all I feel is washed out. It means after the pain is gone I can still do what I have to, just a very slow pace. I cannot drive as my reaction times are to slow but bar feeling like I'm on the tail end of the flu, I feel ok.

It is amazing how it effects people so differently.

I can't stand sumatriptan, it makes me feel flushed in a bad way. As far as acute-onset meds, Frova and Axert worked the best. I'm using an herbal thing now that seems to be helping prevent them. 9 days without a migraine, that's like some kind of record for me. Anyway I know how you feel - keep trying other things I think that our body chemistry changes and then what once worked may not be as effective again, dont know that for sure though.

What is the herbal thing?

Migramedic. Today is day 9 and no migraines. I still have clusters and daily headache, but the severity is diminished. 9 days, seems like a record for me.

Thanks, I will have to look into that. And congratulations to your 9 day streak. I hope more days have passed :)

As Daffnae said, I also would get the "dying" feeling. The first time it happened, I really thought I was going to die. When I first started, I was very drowsy and got confused several times driving (not cool man, not cool).

I take half a sumatriptan and it usually helps but if I take a whole one I feel horrid. my mussles all go weak and I feel faint.
You do not seem to find a tablet without side affects.
Look after yourselves, Take care. Love to all. Ann