My wife gets em 2 or 3 times a year. It's hormonal I'm told....
...anyway, her doc has prescribed for her this contraption where you put in a preloaded syringe type deal, close the thing up, load the spring trigger and pop it in your arm...
...and so it injects this medication...sumatriptan(?) and I tell you, it works each and every time. Just kills the thing within about a half hour or less....
MADrin