Sumatriptan does it for me. The first sign for me is distorted vision, kinda like the sensation you get when you look at a bright light and then look away and you can still see the light. Then I get the numbness; fingers, lips, tongue. Then comes the headache, and that's a bitch of a headache.
As soon as I have the first hint, i.e. the dodgy vision, I whack it with the Sumatriptan and 9/10 times it doesn't develop further. Gotta be quick though, don't delay. If it gets to the headache stage then it's too late.
Even then I feel pretty rubbish for a couple of hours but recover after that and I don't get to the headache stage.
The only thing I've ever identified as a cause is bright lights. Especially if I'm in a dark place, like a restaurant, and look outside to where it's really bright and sunny. Or working in a darkened office but with the computer monitors all on bright settings.
And maybe dehydration, I have a suspicion that that is a cause too. So chuck down a couple of pints of water with the Sumatriptan.
Hora - yeah I was having a look at the ingredients of syndol to see what the active components were and if there was anything similar on the market. I also remember someone saying they suffered both migraines and hayfever and that the migraines died off over summer when they were taking antihistamines for the hay fever.
The person you can remember saying that was Hora.
