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  1. I'm sure I should know this, but what video are you referring to? (I've been here 11 years, and I admit that I haven't kept up outside this forum, even with things at this site.) As others have already said, there's a lot of possible help here, and if you feel like it, you might tell us how you are treating your CH now. It's possible if you skim through this file, it might have something new for you. https://clusterbusters.org/forums/topic/6213-basic-non-busting-information/
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  2. Hi @Uncle Romulus, good thing you've arrived here. I went for some years with CH just assuming no medical or other intervention could help with it. Hopefully that hasn't also been the case with you, but if it has, I believe you'll be in for a pleasant surprise at the possibility of finding relief - even to the point of prevention of entire cycles - as many of us have. Good starter info is found on that when clicking the blue "New Users - Read Here First" bar at the top of the page.^^^^^^^
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  3. Hi! Welcome to the forum. You should be excited because life gets better with Cluster Busters.
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  4. Hi UR...welcome... ...it is by far weird the relationship between smoking and CH. .. ...trigger for some, relief (tho very unusually reported) for others. i could smoke w/o effect on CH before or after a hit ....during a hit a cig would massively ramp it UP. most unaborted hits were survived with little more than desperation and the reward i knew i was gonna get of having a smoke AFTERWARDS. ....in cycle second hand smoke was a frequent trigger....both when an active smoker and not... ....many many reports of quitting having no effect on CH (same here)....but it's such a nasty, harmful habit that quitting should be a priority w/o regard CH anyway.... best j
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  5. I don't think it's the flu (no nausea or fever). I think it's just what existed prior to COVID (common cold). I am good with herbal remedies as well but I have become a bit more cautious with them as one time I has an apothecary make me a tincture (earliest of my CH when being told it was migraine) and apparently she put sage in it, which I had no idea I was allergic 2 but I found out real quick when my body caught on fire from hives I have heard good things about Feverfew and Valerian.
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  6. LOL yep Jon I actually feel quite a bit better this am (no more sore throat) and hey it could be much worse rt? I would much rather have this than a CH any day!
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  7. @BoscoPiko if you indeed have a cold virus, let's hope it's the one going around that I had a couple weeks ago, because it lasted a short (for me) 6 days then gone, never got super severe ,with none of the fairly typical (for me) bronchitis complications. When a cold gets a real foothold past the first day, my experience with trying to do anything about it with immune bolstering this that or the other, is "don't even bother, the virus just laughs at that". But that could just be my jaded and cynical attitude after so many complete past fails.
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  8. Hello, I am sorry that you are here under these circumstances. I will just ask some questions because my approaches deviate from the accepted. Again, I am sorry that you are here. There is a ton of hope. Don't let people fool you. Have you had a PCP, preferably a neurologist confirm that you have Cluster Headaches? If so, an ICD diagnosis. Next, have you been prescribed any medications? If so, what are you taking? Or, what bullcrap have you tried? Pardon the cynism. I never followed thru on it, but yes there appears a casual association between smoking and Cluster Headaches, but to blame that as your source of Cluster Headaches would be speculative. Smoking is a vasoconstrictor and most likely why your attack goes away, the cigarette has nothing to do with it. If that approach works, drink a Starbucks Double Shot, or better a Red Bull. All that Caffeine and Taurine will cause vasoconstriction, among things not worth bringing neuroanatomy into. As far as triggers, that is tough because mine has a mind of its own and comes when it wants. I focus on prophylaxis and aborting when God forbid I get one. There are some things, MSG and processed food. Far too much sugar and caffeine as well. I'm sure others can dial you in. They will help you with doctors, treatment, all of that. I shy away from all of that.
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  9. Please put something in your stomach if you take the nsaids!!! You can get an ulcer in 3 days if you’re taking 800mg around the clock. Seen it happen to a surgeon I worked w,..
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  10. .....i remember the first Texas Instrument handheld calculator i saw in the university bookstore....musta been 5 - $600 and weighed as much as a brick. figured some day i might be able to afford one (now they're givin them away like business cards). until this completely hypothetical "rig" came along i felt the same way about demand valves........thank you B, a fun and practical "build a model" project...
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