Cost and access aside, when might you prefer to start a patient on a triptan instead of a gepant for acute migraine therapy?

For me, the triptans are first line for migraine abortion. They have been on the market for well over three decades, we have a lot of experience with them, a lot of clinical-trial information is available on them, and also in special populations like teenagers and adolescents, as well as pregnant wo...

No doubt, the triptans remain the best abortive medications to treat acute migraine. They have to be taken at onset, no delay. I will NOT prescribe a gepant as first-line unless there are reasons: the patient has tried at least two different triptans correctly several times with no response and or, ...