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Spiny, you nailed it with “what works for you”. My go to is 3 advill PMs taken coffee or energy drink. Don’t have a clue as to why this combo helps but it does for me.

I am trying Nurtec because I have Migraines at least 3 times a week. I believe that my situation is a little different than most CH suffers as I have never had a CH without having a migraine first. My doctor described my situation as a migraine headaches with cluster events. I always said that I believe if I can get controll of my migraines I can be CH free. I will be contacting my Insurance on Monday to see if they cover Nurtec. If my insurance covers it I will keep you guys informed with my results.

Don’t worry about your post, we all have came on here and let our frustrations get the best of us. We live in a world that 99% of the world can not begin to understand. This site saved my life, the great people here know what we are going through and are willing to listen and give advice.

I'm useless with technology lol Bosco what a lovely photo. . That brings back some really happy memories. When I first joined Army in 1985 I join the junior Leaders instead of 12 weeks training it's 12 months training , the idea of the 12 months training is you fast track through the ranks lol that didn't happen with me I only made it to l/col, that's another story ., but anyway whilst in the junior Leaders we had the opportunity to ride .I'd never sat on a horse in my life but thought I'd give it a go .wow I loved it rode every weekend for the whole 12 months whilst I was training . Haven't ride for about 9 years know but it is my intention to get my daughter riding it's a great hobbies

Here is one of my most happy places. This was Thanksgiving day or as @Bejeeber said ThanksBirthGiving day I was having her connect up with me prior to hoping on

Johnny is a good one. This one hits all kind of feels as does the original for different reasons. Speakinf of lost singers. Bop by Dan is one of my moms faves. This goes into the 'hometown' list. More familiar might be "She ain't pretty" One more for the lost

I think even non country folks know who Reba is.. She is amazing love her song Fancy...I grew up on 40 acres in Northern CA so country life is very familiar to me. I don't live that way any longer though. I hope to retire (long time off) in the country with my horse and animals one day.

I don't own a TV and don't follow the logic of owning one. Further, I am anti-social media, and while this is a form, it is as far as I will take it. Your life has considerably more meaning when you drown out the nonsense and when you start focusing on what matters. If I wasn't starting over in life, I would have rooms full of books on bookshelves and stacks upon stacks of printouts. Respectfully, I just don't understand how one can find enjoyment in watching a bunch of egotistical maniacs indulge in self-importance while speaking in utterances of preposterous levels. Reality TV is not intellectually stimulating and a complete waste of time. It's a sad reflection of society when one finds someone professing their love for how their nasty cellulite injected derriere as work of art as something worthy of more views than Rod Serling in his prime. Most would not be able to comprehend the enormity of his genius. Don't worry about the world around you, if the news is that important then someone will tell you. Once a week I review a periodical such as The Economist or Reason Magazine to remain relevant. For more pressing there is The Times and in our country the liberal Wall Street Journal. If someone points me to something of utmost importance I turn to a verified independent source, almost certain not in this country, and on YouTube. By no means comprehensive, and far from selective, here is a small sample of book titles, with links to a synopsis, to help you on your quest to find happiness. You should read the following, here are a synopsis: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805073690 Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of The American Community http://bowlingalone.com Full Catastrophe Living https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89149/full-catastrophe-living-revised-edition-by-jon-kabat-zinn-preface-by-thich-nhat-hanh-foreword-by-joan-borysenko/ Thinking Fast and Slow https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533557/thinkingfastandslow Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones https://www.google.com/amp/s/aliabdaal.com/book-notes/atomic-habits-summary/amp/ Why We Sleep https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-Walker/9781501144325 Who switched off my brain? https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/9780980122329.html Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness https://tomorrowsprofessor.sites.stanford.edu/posting/995 Steven Pinker, How The Mind Works https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393334777 How to be a Stoic: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/massimo-pigliucci/how-to-be-a-stoic/9780465097968/ Meditations, Marcus Aurelius https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/marcus-aurelius/meditations/9781541673854/ Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic http://sqapo.com/ayer.htm Karl Popper, The Open Society, and Its Enemies (A monumental and quintessential 20th century read on the defense of democracy which is inexorable to our freedom and happiness ). Some consider this one of the most important books of the 20th century. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691210841/the-open-society-and-its-enemies Wittgenstein TLP, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is a landmark book on logic, language how we structure meaning... https://www.roangelo.net/logwitt/remarks-tlp.html Human Knowledge: Its Scopes and Limits Lord Bertrand Russell https://www.routledge.com/Human-Knowledge-Its-Scope-and-Limits/Russell/p/book/9780415474443# T.S. Elliot The Waste Land https://poets.org/poem/waste-land Joe Conrad’s Novella The Heart of Darkness, his third language mind you, is a book everyone should be required to read before they die. And, it was the foundation for the movie Apocalypse Now. Though it was written decades before. Throw that Clive Cussler and Danielle Steele shit where it belongs, the landfill. Read something with literary merit. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-conrads-imperial-horror-story-heart-of-darkness-resonates-with-our-globalised-times-94723 Love or hate, no room for in-between, Ayn Rand’s pinnacle of Objectivist Epistemology (Atlas Shrugged) https://aynrand.org/novels/atlas-shrugged/ Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674664791 The Social Construction of Reality, Berger https://pressbooks.howardcc.edu/soci101/chapter/social-construction-of-reality/ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html The Social Animal https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/6057/the-social-animal The Invisible Gorilla https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Invisible_Gorilla.html?id=f8AN1DAud5sC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1 David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/bigge-a-treatise-of-human-nature

I'm country-well was-but I'm not that country Ms. Reba McEntire (Basco). Lol. If you are not in the know, she is a huge cowgirl. That is a great story though. My country life, well, I painted cars and did all the bodywork in a friend's empty chicken house. We laid down the tarps, ran the electricity for lighting and the compressor and the rest is history. The fans worked perfectly for blowing out the aerosols. God knows what I inhaled, smoking, without a respirator, spraying basecoat clear. God... And all the lead dropping while smoking. Body filler is garbage, we went old school and dropped it, or welded it. I also know my way around a Massy Ferguson, and International. And sadly, a Deere. While most brag about drinking out a damn red cup, jacking up some truck that they never drove, and so on, shopping at Central Farm and Tractor was part of life, necessity. And, we drove trucks, long beds, and 1 ton (often dualies) out of necessity, and not some cultural phenomenon. If we did put a lift on our damn truck it was because we were tired of being stuck on job sites. It amazes me how the country music turned into something people know absolutely nothing about. Everything we did was to get by, make enough to make ends meet, help each other, and to survive. There wasn't anything cool about having to port/polish & machine a friends cylinder heads cause he is in a bind and has to be to work in that broken down vehicle to feed his family. Anyway, that is a great story and I would love to hear more. I believe that it was called transcendentalism, you know being connected to nature. I must get back to that.

I used to milk the neighbors cows and thought it was fun. You have to learn the rhythm then got rewarded with 1 gallon containers of fresh milk with cheese cloth separating the cream from the milk. I loved the farm life it was beautiful all the funny chickens and home raised cows, tomatoes fresh off the vine..

This is new to me, and not much gets past me unless it is corporate radio post-2008. The video had me in flashbacks t%#. I don't know about anyone else. I hope it's safe to say that. I'm just being honest.

Wow, I have to get better at following up on things, Chri$&. I have not followed the licorice protocol and honestly, I am most likely taking on far too much. I am at the dividing point. If I attend college again, just to take neurobiology, epidemiology, and biochemistry courses, SSA throws you on the ticket to work, you can never apply for disability again, and in three years you have to find work. I'm at a point where I would like to assume some risk, not to that extent. Anyway, I need more science courses to properly understand what I am trying to accomplish. I am exploring ways to pay for things under-the-table but it will take considerable time. I am not using the system as I spend about 7 days a month flat on my ass, usually at the most inopportune times. These times cause complete disruption and chaos. The personality disorder presents multiple disruptions. I don't and can't interact with people. And when Borderpolar-lookout. Fibromyalgia and “headaches,” present their challenges each month. It was my first CRNP that explained to me malnutrition caused my spine problems. Sure enough, severe deficiency of Vitamin C stops collagen production and causes bone spurs, herniated discs, and osteoarthritis. Because of her, I reversed my Severe Degenerative Disc Disease. I was 27 and 3 top 50 spine surgeons (all in my region said that I would be rods and screws by 30 and in a wheelchair). After the two major fusions, she helped me with quitting smoking and had me megadose on Vitamin C, I'm 38 they can't find the degeneration on an MRI. Smoking saps the body of C, stopping can help, but you have to replenish. Next, it was my current NP that encouraged me to explore Dr. Hoffer, even Dr. Amen protocol for Orthomolecular psychiatry. I went from 10 psych meds, life in chaos, down to two. You tell me. Their approach is concern, compassion, and understanding. In the past 20 years, I have watched M.D.s (expletive justified) become “it been 15 minutes get the fuck out of my office.” I pay-under the table-$50 and get up to 1.5 hours with my NP. Most Weatern medicine is useless I can back that.

I was on a second cousins' family farm and attempted to ride Mr. Ed, yeah not so hot. Or was it Mrs? Ed. It doesn't matter. At a young age, I said no to crop farming, hell no to chicken farming, and just grab the teat of a moo moo one time, that ends the idea of being a dairy farmer. I'm glad that you had fun, or are having fun.

Riding that horsey has to just be super FUN, with a capital WOW, and it looks quite pleased at the prospect itself - I bet you go for some full on speed gallops (or whatever it is the real fast horse riding is supposed to be called) out in the open! My enthusiasm is much derived from a personal bucket list item to ride a horse one mo' time - last time I was on a horse was as a 13 year old city/suburb kid, on some poor rent-a-horse that wanted to get back to the stable real bad and decided to race another horse - replete with jumpings over otherwise deadly obstacles - to get back there ASAP. It was a true highlight of my life experiences.

For the past many years, one cup of coffee for me in the morning. Any other caffeine I drink is for my head. During bumpy weather times, I make cold brewed coffee and keep it in the fridge. Other times, I am all over the V-8 Energy!!! There is always some of that in the fridge too. When traveling, I keep caffeine pills in my car. Those are 200mg of caffeine. It's all about what works for you!!!

Thank you Spiny! It was my birthday as well this lovley year and I rode and played with my mare (sis) is her name and she treated me very well

...here's lookin at you kid!

Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful Bosco!!!

'I guess your doctor forgot to give you the jerk free pass card when they told ya you have clusters.. I got 2 of them and a card allowing me to be an ass twice a week.' Agreed, we all need at least one of these!!!! Bosco, we learn to laugh about it over time I think. Sort of laugh or cry? I'll take laugh any day. Let the anger about it out, scream to the heavens and then get on with life. I suspect it teaches us to value good times a lot more than many do and that is a gift to be savored. Fun Times made a great suggestion regarding RC seeds too!!!