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So glad for all your positives Suzz!!! I hate pills, but I love the relief of the D3 regimen more!! Tony: I too use caffeine as a preventative. It really helps and I can prevent most daytime hits with my system. The one that I use is V8 Fusion Energy. No taurine but B vitamins are in it. The last thing at night is a V8. That way I can get at least an hour of sleep prior to the first nocturnal hit. Some time back I considered setting an alarm to get up 15 minutes before the next scheduled hit. But I have yet to try it.

In my last cycle last year I used energy drinks almost only as preventatives. I felt kind of stupid why I had not tried that ever before. I got the idea to try them out from migraine sites where lots of people aim to prevent their migraines with coffee. The other reason why I went at it was that my usual preventative, liquorice root tincture, was not responding well so I started thinking maybe dilation was a bigger issue for this particular cycle and for me. I would suggest just about anyone who can tolerate energy drinks (especially if they already work on hits but also if they don't) to try them as preventative as well for at least a week - if hits come like clockwork it should show it's response easily. But they took me a few days to reach the optimum prevention. I still don't understand how they worked so well though, I got shelter for hours. It can't be just taurine? I can't recommend topiramate for clusters, for anyone, but that's just me. Lots of great news Suzz ! EDIT: At least on me when I used energy drinks as preventative, I didn't need to use the whole drink, or the same amount used to abort. For me 1/3 - 1/2 of the abort amount worked as a preventative, fine tuning that based on the strength of the shadows.

I had to go get a mug of coffee after reading all of that.