Thanks! I've increased the dosage of KLOW slightly to what I'm seeing others doing so I'm now getting per day:
2.5mg GHK-CU
500mcg BPC 157
500mcg TB-500
500mcg KPV
Forgot to update yesterday but it was CH free, and that was just 3 days after lowering Verapamil. I did not lower it yesterday just to see if it was a fluke but there was again no CH this morning, so I will lower it today.
I've had this other type of pain in the trigeminal area (temple, cheek, above/behind the eye, sometimes back to the neck) in between CH for years. Same side as the CH, completely unilateral. It used to come in months long episodes (3-4) and then it was gone for a couple of months until returning again. Last 2 years its been constant, sometimes I get 20-30 minutes at waking up until it starts.
It's like the whole left side of my head/brain is inflamed, and there is a burning sensation and some pain in the trigeminal area constantly. With that I get intermittent stabbing pain, so its like a sawtooth pattern where I'm constantly on 3-4 in pain and then there is second long stabs that brings pain up to 7-8. When its really bad the stabs can come like every 10 seconds and go on for hours. Sleep sort of "resets" everything, but then the pain comes crawling back fairly quickly.
I have tried Indomethacin against this with some success, some of the stabbing stopped but after I had another bout of CH it feels like its almost back to where it was before I started taking it. Felt a lot of improvement from KLOW on this pain in the first couple of days but effect seem to be wearing off. Gabapentin has also worked for this sort of pain, but only for 3-5 days before I've needed to increase dosage, until side effects become intolerable.
I'm convinced its neurological, my neurologist first claimed it was muscular but I've been to literally hundreds of chiropractors and other sort of mechanical practitioners (neck, shoulders, jaw, teeth etc etc) without result. I think I've tried all of the medications you could think of except Pregabalin. I've also tried hundreds of supplements and things like progesterone, methylene blue, cyproheptadine, aspirin etc, and nothing seem to work.