# What medicines do doctors usually prescribe for people with migraines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 13, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-medicines-do-doctors-usually-prescribe-for-people-with-migraines/804369 "2017-12-13T05:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![rastafarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@rastafarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rastafarian)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-medicines-do-doctors-usually-prescribe-for-people-with-migraines/804369/1 "2017-12-13T05:49:24Z")
This isn’t a medical advice question. My mother had migraines but apparently no longer suffers from them any more. I’m just curious as to what drug she was given for her migraines a while back when we lived in the US. She has always suffered from them ever since she was a kid and it was only until when she was in her late 30s that she went to a family physician who referred her to a neurologist that did an MRI scan and found lesions around the areas where she complained of headaches. As a result, he prescribed her a ‘narcotic’ which he said would most likely require a proof of prescription before she moved with it to Europe incase airport officials stopped her and performed a baggage search. My mother has always been a pretty anti-drug person, regardless of whether they’re illicit or prescition drugs as she’s seen many people have their lives “destroyed” by drugs in her small town village from the African country she was born in. Anyways, she took the drugs but apparently after a few weeks, the effects kicked in. Eventually when we moved to Europe two month’s later, she threw them away because they made her feel “horrible” and as if she was in “zombie like state”. They did stop the migraines but it wasn’t worth it for her especially since she almost had an accident. She forgot the name of the drug but when Michael Jackson died and his drug-list from his physician was given, she recognised of the drugs was the same one she took. I thought it might be opiates since the drug was controlled but it seems unlikely as she describes an overall unpleasant mental experience, being in a zombie like state and no distinct effects of things like hydrocodone/oxycodone which are a strong buzz, slight-severe nausea, constipation and heavy itching from the release of histamines. We’re these drugs opiates or something else? What prescription drugs for the mind/brain could be controlled that aren’t opiates or benzos? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-medicines-do-doctors-usually-prescribe-for-people-with-migraines/804369)._