What are your preferred beta blockers for migraine prevention treatment?
Do you find benefit in trialing a second or third beta blocker if the first does not lead to improvement? In light of PMID 42673559
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Neurology · Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine
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There is good clinical-trial evidence for the efficacy of six beta-blockers in migraine prevention. In alphabetical order, these are: atenolol, bisoprolol, metoprolol, nadolol, propranolol, and timolol. They share a lack of partial agonist or intrinsic sympathomimetic activity. This means that they ...
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