Customizable Patient Education Materials
Help empower your patient to play an active role in their migraine care with these informative resources and helpful tools you can download for your practice.
What is it?
Customizable Patient Education Materials you can provide to your migraine patients.
Discussion Guide
This discussion guide can help you evaluate your patients' condition, impairment, and treatment before, during and in between
attacks.
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Migraine Diary
This migraine diary is a simple, effective tool that can help you diagnose, treat, and manage your patients' condition. Your
patients will learn how to document exposure to triggers, symptoms, impairment levels, effectiveness of their medication.
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Migraine Basics
While every migraine headache is unique as is every migraine sufferer, this will introduce your patients to the more common
symptoms associated with this condition.
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What Are Migraine Triggers?
Identifying personal triggers is a key step in the management and treatment of migraines. This section will introduce your
patients to various categories of triggers and the steps they can take to avoid them.
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What Treatment Options Can Help My Migraines?
This will provide your patients with general information about medication and non-medication treatment options.
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How Should I Speak With My Family And Friends About My Migraines?
Migraines can take a toll on those who are closest to the sufferer. This will provide your patients with the information they
need to discuss their condition with family members and friends.
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Should I Speak With My Employer About Migraines?
Patients will often ask how to speak with their employer or co-workers about their migraines. This will provide your patients with
suggestions that will help them discuss their condition at the workplace.
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When Should You Go to the Emergency Room?
Migraine suffers need to know when they should seek immediate medical attention. This will provide your patients with what they
need to know about their symptoms that could indicate a more serious condition.
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What to Expect When You Take TOPAMAX
This will be useful information for you to provide to your patients when they initiate therapy with TOPAMAX®.
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How do I use it?
After installation, you can personalize patient education materials by adding your name, practice name, address, Web site, phone number and the days your practice is open in the tab 1 area. This information will be recalled each time you launch the application. In the tab 2 area, you can also add your patient's name and then click the printer icon next to the documents that you would like to print. You can skip this step if you'd prefer to simply print the documents and write the information by hand by selecting the "Skip customization" checkbox at the top of tab 1.
How do I get it?
Click on the download patient education application link below to install the application that contains helpful tools and information about migraine. You can personalize for your patients, and then print out as needed right from your office computer.
Dispensing errors have been reported between TOPAMAX® (topiramate) Tablets and TOPROL-XL® (metoprolol succinate) extended-release Tablets.
Please be sure to check your tablets to ensure you are taking the right medicine.
*TOPROL-XL is a registered trademark of the AstraZeneca group of companies.
TOPAMAX Tablets and TOPAMAX Sprinkle Capsules are indicated for adults for the prophylaxis of migraine headache. The usefulness of TOPAMAX in the acute treatment of migraine headache has not been studied.
TOPAMAX is contraindicated in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to any component of this product.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
TOPAMAX has been associated with serious adverse events, including:
- Hyperchloremic, non-anion gap metabolic acidosis - lowering of bicarbonate levels in the blood. Measurement of baseline and periodic serum bicarbonate is recommended.
- Acute myopia and secondary angle-closure glaucoma - patients should be cautioned to seek medical attention if they experience blurred vision or ocular pain.
- Oligohidrosis and hyperthermia - decreased sweating and increased body temperature, especially in hot weather. The majority of reports have been in children.
- Cognitive/psychiatric side effects including cognitive dysfunction, psychiatric/behavioral disturbances, including suicidal thoughts or behavior, and somnolence and fatigue.
Most common adverse events associated with TOPAMAX 100 mg vs placebo were: paresthesia, 51% vs 6%; anorexia,* 15% vs 6%; fatigue, 15% vs 11%; nausea, 13% vs 8%; diarrhea, 11% vs 4%; weight decrease, 9% vs 1%; taste alteration, 8% vs 1%.
The possibility of decreased contraceptive efficacy and increased breakthrough bleeding should be considered in patients taking combination oral contraceptive products with TOPAMAX.
Patients should be instructed to maintain an adequate fluid intake in order to minimize the risk of renal stone formation.
*Anorexia is defined as loss of appetite
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