A Research Study To Evaluate If Frovatriptan Is Safe And Effective In Preventing Migraine Headache After Fasting

Thomas Jefferson University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Migraine

Treatments

Drug: Frovatriptan

Drug: Placebo

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00440232

SDS/FHA-FRV/ 01

Details and patient eligibility

About

We are testing the hypothesis that subjects in the treatment group will experience fewer fasting induced headaches as compared to those in the placebo group.In our clinical experience, we estimate that approximately 25% of our headache population experiences fasting-induced migraine or hunger-induced migraine. With a given migraine incidence of 28 million in the United States alone, we estimate that approximately 7 million will experience hunger as a migraine trigger. If an individual has a known migraine trigger, then there are a variety of ways to modify care in order to address that trigger. The simplest is to avoid that trigger or preemptively treat that trigger. Frovatriptan has good evidence for daily use for a short time to help prevent menstrually related migraines. A short course of treatment can often avoid the initiation of the migraine and improve quality of life. Knowing that a longer acting triptan, such as frovatriptan, has demonstrated capability at suppressing headache through a known trigger, suggests the need to study this with fasting induced migraines, as well.

Enrollment

74 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Male and female subjects between the ages of 18 and 65, inclusive
Subjects diagnosed with episodic migraine, with or without aura according to IHS criteria for at least one-year prior to screening
Subjects who experience between 1 and 6 migraine attacks per month inclusive (during the previous 6 months) with no more than 15 days of headache per month.
Subject reports hunger or fasting as a known trigger for migraine
Subject is using or agrees to use for the duration of participation a medically acceptable form of contraception (as determined by investigator), if female of child-bearing potential
Subjects who are able to understand and comply with all study procedures.
Subject is willing to complete one 20-hour fast, starting between 5:00 and 8:00 P.M., with no food or drink (except water needed to take routine medication)
Subject provides written informed consent prior to any screening procedures being conducted
If subject is taking a preventive migraine medication for migraine or any other reason, that medication must have been a stable dose for at least 4 weeks prior to screening, and must remain stable throughout the duration of the study.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA

Pregnant and/or lactating women
Subjects who have a history of clinically relevant allergy to frovatriptan or like compounds
Subjects who, in the investigators opinion, have a history or have evidence of any other medical or psychiatric condition that would expose them to an increased risk of a significant adverse event or would interfere with the assessments of efficacy and tolerability during this trial
Subjects who have participated in an investigational drug trial in the 30 days prior to the screening visit
Subjects who currently have or have a history of significant cerebrovascular disease including basilar or hemiplegic migraine
Subjects who have a history of non-response to triptans, as determined by investigator
Subjects with uncontrolled hypertension
Subjects with diabetes mellitus who require insulin or oral anti-hyperglycemic agents will be excluded. (Subjects with Type II diabetes who are well controlled with diet and exercise alone may be included.)
Subjects who currently have or who have a history of ischemia and/or vasospastic coronary artery disease
Subjects who, in the investigators opinion, have significant risk factors of coronary artery disease