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Hey Ricardo! Are they wanting questions on how prescribed meds interact with MM and such? Questions on which meds are okay with MM and RC? I want to help, but am somewhat at a loss here. The only big one I know of off the bat is the licorice root protocol and MM. What is safe, if anything. Please, give me a bit more to go on. Thanks!

The times that sumatriptan pills work for cluster is when you are in cycle where you know that you are going to get hit at a certain time and can take it an hour beforehand. I have warded off more night time hits than I can count by taking a 100 mg sumatriptan pill before bed. -Ricardo

@BejeeberI'm not so sure about triggering a cycle or not, but pretty much everything that dentistry has and does triggers a serious cluster for me. But something that might be looking into as an option is nitrous oxide. I have been getting nitrous at the dentist for the past 4 or 5 years and never once had a cluster break though. It has been successful enough as an abortive that I got a whipped cream maker so I could take nitrous at home and it has been unbelievably helpful. I know a couple times it has kept me out of the ER. -Brendan (AKA Ricardo )

Jeebs, My recollection is that my daughter's first bad cycle followed a tooth extraction, when she had only had occasional "bad headaches" before that time. The extraction itself was difficult, and for a long time we were blaming the dentist for having caused her CH (which at that time (and for much too long thereafter) was diagnosed as trigeminal neuralgia). I don't remember specifically whether she was having those "headaches" at the time of the extraction, so I'm not fully answering your question, but the shift in severity was very large.

Thank you for that highly pertinent report from the trenches Mr. jon! If I could knock out an epinephrine induced one off hit with a triptan while not triggering a cycle, I'd consider that a big win. It sounds like in your scenario that when you came to, the attack may have been well underway though, with no chance to catch it near onset.....

...well...that explains why the arrogant prick anesthesiologist blew me off when i PLEADED with him to forgo the epi for my own "head" surgery...he at least coulda told me the above.... .....good news/bad news from this clusterhead if ya can't talk 'em out of it: did NOT trigger a cluster cycle...did wake up to a one-off 6 hr kip 8+ hit ...you know it's bad when you are scaring ICU nurses.....drained the hospital O2 to no avail and they wouldn't give me triptans.... ....if i was yu i'd keister a Zomig....

.....affirmative....

I got kicked out of remission when I had a tooth extracted and blame the epi.