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Meet Sophie

Nurse, 42 Chronic migraine

Feeling trapped by migraine and showing signs of medication overuse headache

Meet CLAIRE

Student, 20 Episodic migraine

Migraine starting to have major impact on her life and studies

*Fictional patients used for illustrative purposes.

Sophie’s
story

Sophie’s treatment history

  • Developed migraine in her 30s
  • Initially self-treated using OTC medications
  • Has since been prescribed NSAID, propranolol, candesartan (migraine prophylaxis off-label) and amitriptyline, with limited success
  • Now waiting for referral to neurologist
  • Has continued self-medication with OTC NSAIDs and triptans ≥ 10 days/month
  • Noticing increase in migraine days

Baseline MMDs

  • 15 MMDs – chronic migraine

The impact on Sophie

  • Sophie has tried multiple treatments with limited success
  • Increasing use of acute medications may be contributing to increasing migraine days
  • Starting to feel trapped by this vicious cycle
  • Symptoms force her to try to find relief in a darkened room – she is missing out on family life, including upcoming travel plans

What Sophie wants

A treatment that can provide effective migraine prevention, which may help break the vicious cycle of needing to take more acute medication

*Fictional patients used for illustrative purposes.

Medication overuse headache (MOH)

  • Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder4
  • MOH is a secondary diagnosis in patients with pre-existing primary headache disorders4
  • Overcoming the disability and poor quality of life that accompanies MOH requires breaking the vicious cycle of taking more acute medication that can cause more headaches5–7

VYEPTI (eptinezumab) is indicated for the prophylaxis of migraine in adults who have at least 4 migraine days per month.1

What VYEPTI offers

VYEPTI significantly reduces frequency of monthly migraine days vs placebo in patients with chronic migraine, and in patients with previous treatment failures8,9

Mean change from baseline in MMDs in adult patients with CM8

(PROMISE-2 primary endpoint)

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Mean change from baseline in MMDs in patients with EM or CM with 2–4 previous preventive treatment failures9

(DELIVER primary endpoint)

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Patients with chronic migraine and MOH reduced their use of acute medication by more than 45% after their first VYEPTI infusion10 (PROMISE-2 post hoc analysis)

Mean days per month of total acute medication use in
patients with chronic migraine and MOH10

(PROMISE-2 post hoc analysis)

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These decreases in acute medication usage resulted in patients no longer meeting the monthly medication threshold for MOH, based on ICHD-3ß criteria10

Total acute headache medication days is the sum of triptan, ergotamine, opioid, simple analgesic, and combination analgesic days of use. If a patient used 2 classes of medication on the same day, they were counted twice.

VYEPTI is generally well tolerated1,11

  • Over 2,000 patients have been treated with VYEPTI in clinical studies, approximately half of which were exposed for 48 weeks (four doses)1
  • The most common side effects are nasopharyngitis, hypersensitivity reactions, infusion-related reaction and fatigue, which were mild to moderate in severity1,11
    1. Incidence of side effects generally decreased after subsequent doses, and hypersensitivity events resolved usually within 1 day1,11
  • Patients with a history of CV disease were excluded from clinical trials. No safety data are available in these patients1
Summary of TEAEs from clinical trials*11

Meet CLAIRE

Student, 20 Episodic migraine

Migraine starting to have major impact on her life and studies

This is not a current GB/EU pack and is for illustration purposes only.

About VYEPTI

For further information about VYEPTI, including further detail on efficacy and tolerability data, please see the About VYEPTI section

Claire’s
story

Claire’s treatment history

  • Experienced headaches throughout her teenage years
  • Has worsened to frequent migraine during her time at university
  • Has been prescribed topiramate, propranolol and amitriptyline with limited success

Baseline MMDs

  • 11 MMDs – episodic migraine

The impact on Claire

  • Symptoms are causing her to miss 2–3 days of lectures each week, and social life is suffering
  • Feeling pressure from her university – she is falling behind with her work, with exams coming up soon
  • After multiple treatment failures, she is beginning to worry nothing will work
  • Feeling isolated, helpless and cut off from her life

What Claire wants

A treatment that can help prevent migraines with a fast onset of action, to help her get back her academic and social life

*Fictional patients used for illustrative purposes.

What VYEPTI offers

VYEPTI significantly reduces frequency of monthly migraine days vs placebo in patients with chronic migraine, and in patients with previous treatment failures9,12

Mean change from baseline in MMDs in adult patients with EM12

(PROMISE-1 primary endpoint)

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view of the study design
Mean change from baseline in MMDs in patients with EM or CM with 2–4 previous preventive treatment failures9

(DELIVER primary endpoint)

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view of the study design

VYEPTI starts working from day 1 after infusion 8,12,13 (Post hoc analysis of PROMISE-1 and PROMISE-2)

Average daily percentage of patients with EM experiencing migraine13

(PROMISE-1 post hoc analysis)

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Day 1 reduction in proportion of patients experiencing migraine compared with baseline

VYEPTI 100 mg: 52.3%

Placebo: 24.5%

Values for weeks 1 through 4 calculated as the average daily percentage of patients with a migraine during that week. Normalisation to average monthly days was achieved by multiplying the daily percent by 28 days (baseline period).13

VYEPTI is generally well tolerated1,11

  • Over 2,000 patients have been treated with VYEPTI in clinical studies, approximately half of which were exposed for 48 weeks (four doses)1
  • The most common side effects are nasopharyngitis, hypersensitivity reactions, infusion-related reaction and fatigue, which were mild to moderate in severity1,11
    1. Incidence of side effects generally decreased after subsequent doses, and hypersensitivity events resolved usually within 1 day1,11
  • Patients with a history of CV disease were excluded from clinical trials. No safety data are available in these patients1
Summary of TEAEs from clinical trials*11

Meet Sophie

Nurse, 42 Chronic migraine

Feeling trapped by migraine and showing signs of medication overuse headache

This is not a current GB/EU pack and is for illustration purposes only.

About VYEPTI

For further information about VYEPTI, including further detail on efficacy and tolerability data, please see the About VYEPTI section

Adverse events should be reported.

Reporting forms and information can be found at www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store. Adverse events should also be reported to Lundbeck Limited, Medical Information, on: 01908 638972 or Email: SafetyLuUnitedKingdom@lundbeck.com

Abbreviations:

BL, baseline; CM, chronic migraine; CV, cardiovascular; EM, episodic migraine; ICHD-3ß, International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (beta publication); MMD, monthly migraine day; MOH, medication overuse headache; NSAID, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug; OTC, over the counter; TEAE, treatment-emergent adverse event.

References:
  • Lundbeck. Vyepti. Summary of Product Characteristics GB and NI.
  • Martelletti P, et al. J Headache Pain. 2018;19(1):115.
  • The Work Foundation, Society’s Headache, 2018. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation/SocietysHeadacheTheSocioeconomicimpactofmigraine.pdf. Last accessed January 2024.
  • Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society (IHS), 3rd edition. Cephalalgia. 2018;38(1):1–211.
  • Diener H-C, et al. Headache. 2021;61(1):125–36.
  • Raggi A, et al. J Neurol Sci. 2015;348(1-2):60–6.
  • Diener H-C, et al. Eur J Neurol. 2020;27(7):1102–16.
  • Lipton RB, et al. Neurology. 2020;94(13):e1365–77.
  • Ashina M, et al. Lancet Neurol. 2022;21(7):597–607.
  • Marmura MJ, et al. Headache. 2021;61(9):1421–31.
  • Smith TR, et al. J Headache Pain. 2021;22(1):16.
  • Ashina M, et al. Cephalalgia. 2020;40(3):241–54.
  • Dodick DW, et al. Headache. 2020;60(10):2220–31.
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