The article from the Journal, American Family Physician Vol73 No1 January 2006, (in pdf format) attached to this post describes options available to you and your physician for preventative threatment of migraine.
Those considered for preventative treatment:
Following appropriate management of acute migraine, patients should be evaluated for initiation of preventive therapy. Factors that should prompt consideration of preventive therapy include the occurrence of two or more migraines per month with disability lasting three or more days per month; failure of, contraindication for, or adverse events from acute treatments; use of abortive medication more than twice per week; and uncommon migraine conditions (e.g., hemiplegic migraine, migraine with prolonged aura, migrainous infarction).
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