"finally a migraine preventative that works for me! i was having up to 10-15 migraines a month. none of the standard migraine preventatives worked well for me, or i had side effects that i could not tolerate. i have 2 levels of migraines -- those that excedrin migraine takes care of and the ones that need my triptan (axert) medicine. within a week of starting the hydroxyzine, my &quot;low-level&quot; migraines all but disappeared and i was down to 3-4 &quot;triptan&quot; headaches a month; the month after that the &quot;triptan&quot; headaches were gone. i haven&#039;t had a migraine-free stretch like that for over 15 years! the side effects have been minimal -- i was drowsy during the day for the first week, but that has gone away. on the plus side, i&#039;m sleeping better too!"