What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking sumatriptan injection?

Before you take sumatriptan, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:

• have high blood pressure

• have high cholesterol

• have diabetes

• smoke

• are overweight

• have heart problems or family history of heart problems or stroke

• have liver problems

• have had epilepsy or seizures

• are not using effective birth control

• become pregnant while taking sumatriptan

• are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Sumatriptan passes into your breast milk and may harm your baby. Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby if you take sumatriptan.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

Using sumatriptan with certain other medicines can affect each other, causing serious side effects.

Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take antidepressant medicines called:

• selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

• serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)

• tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)

• monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)

Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of these medicines if you are not sure.

Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your healthcare provider or pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

How should I take sumatriptan injection?

• Certain people should take their first dose of sumatriptan injection in their healthcare provider’s office or in another medical setting. Ask your healthcare provider if you

should take your first dose in a medical setting.

• Use sumatriptan injection exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to use it.

• Your healthcare provider may change your dose. Do not change your dose without first talking with your healthcare provider

• For adults, the usual dose is a single injection given just below the skin.

• You should give an injection as soon as the symptoms of your headache start, but it may be given at any time during a migraine attack.

• If you did not get any relief after the first injection, do not give a second injection without first talking with your healthcare provider.

• You can take a second injection 1 hour after the first injection, but not sooner, if your headache came back after your first injection.

• Do not take more than 12 mg in a 24 hour period.

• If you use too much sumatriptan injection, call your healthcare provider or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.

• You should write down when you have headaches and when you take sumatriptan injection so you can talk with your healthcare provider about how sumatriptan injection is working for you.