Bejeeber

@BoscoPiko that is not a rant compared to the post immediately preceding. @Juss I love you but you probably realize you're going places that put you on thin ice, right? Moderators are currently starting to assess your most recent post, meantime I'll suggest you more carefully consider posting the sort of stuff that helps no one, and that you know some will find offensive for good reason. [Edit: Thank you for that edit Juss]

OOH - that is one fantastically wide assortment of crops.

That unreasonable size limit issue is one of the things be addressed during forum maintenance tomorrow [Edit: No wait, that maintenance occurs today]..........fingers crossed.

Whoa, your own greenhouse? So KOOL. I recall @spiny having been involved in some truly heavyweight gardening - like I think for the supply of ALL of the plant foods consumed by the family year round?? So you two are the clusterbuster farmers on steroids (which in our case I guess would be prednisone ).

This is one of those things I believe I have learned from personal experience, as opposed to extensive research, so as always am open to anyone's differing take on the subject: Some of the nutrients in the D3 regimen, such as B vitamins found in a multi-vitamin, are heat sensitive, and anyone like me who orders them online is risking receiving some killed dead pills if they are delivered in a roasting oven of a delivery van (last I checked some of the D3 regimen moving parts such as minerals like magnesium are more impervious to heat though). Here in Austin I've been waiting pretty much all of April to get a not-too-hot opening in the forecast for having my entire spring-summer-early-fall's worth of of D3 regimen components delivered alive and well, and have just pushed that button. I suppose my urging can be summarized thusly: Order 3 to 5 months worth (depending on your local climate) of your heat sensitive D3 components while there is still some cool weather, or risk purchasing some dead krap, and worst case scenario: The Beast catches you with cluster-pants halfway down.

A flip side to that, in my mind anyway, is that long ago, some indigenous peoples knew of natural treatments in the form or fungi, cacti, seeds, etc. that are what we are just now re-discovering as exceptionally effective CH preventives. So here's to our best of both worlds: Advancing science plus reconsideration of the long dismissed life saving remedies that grow right at our feet.

Finest of British Food & Drink indeed, this kitten jelly is actually quite sumptuous, so you can definitely look forward to spending golden years enjoying superb dining. I'm certain Shaun can back me up with some first hand flavor certification for this one.

Just a minute now - those are some type of fuzzy animals in those pockets, and they even appear to be enjoying their modes of transportation.

As long as nobody messes with my Felix the Cat avatar.....wait WTF is going on here

OK OK, Gee @CHfather you don't have to unleash the fecking kitten faces . Negotiations are currently underway to dump the leaderboard from this message board (with highest priority being given to a fix for the beloved Internal Server Error though).

Hi @Music, serious discussion does take place here, although thankfully some camaraderie via humor (including the gallows type) is to be found also. I'm not aware of any intent for the generic-for-various-message-boards leaderboard 'feature' to have been meant as some manner of sick humor though, it's more just some forum setting that kicked in relatively recently (out of where, I do not know), might go away at any point, and misleadingly displays a ranking of how much an individual has recently participated in discussions. It is indeed seriously flawed, in that a member such as CHfather, who should have the highest of the high rankings in such a system, currently does not.

A lot of us have found we can inexplicably go right back to sleep after an energy drink or shot and O2.

What @BoscoPiko asked. @Mister Geez

What Spiny said What @jon019 said. I've been getting my share of the same Internal Server Error baloney again lately too.

Heck that sounds like it could be a good way to go too.

Hi Johnny, There's an app for that. I know one of us CH'ers had created a mobile tracking app at one point anyway, but certainly using a Google sheet for tracking makes sense to me, and if I were to start tracking again, I'd definitely be looking into that. If you have a template that's working well, and could be shared, that sounds like it'd be nifty.

I've had plenty a shadow between cycles. I don't recall too much of what others besides @BoscoPiko and myself have reported about this, but I think of it as being kind of 'normal' for us episodics. Like BoscoP, when the shadows get stronger (and for me, more frequent), I take it as a likely sign of an impending full strength cycle revisit.

What FunPiko said. Or was it BoscoTimes? Anyway, those two individuals dispensed the big, solid, and for so many if us life altering clues which could make all the difference in your search for something that will work. I'll just drill down into a bit more of the detail realm: What form of Sumatriptan are you using? If it's 6 mg injections, that's an overdose, but the good news is that since you only need 2 mg you can triple your supply with the imitrex tip - extending imitrex. Here's hoping the new neurologist may be a headache specialist, since that is the type typically in the know.

Hi Gail, so sorry to hear of the evil switcheroo that has been pulled on you with the unexpected O2 fails. I realize you've participated here in the past and you know about the two most popular non pharmaceutical approaches: D3 regimen and busting, so I'm at a bit of a loss for any good new ideas. I suppose you've tried caffeine or energy shots with the O2 to give the abort that much better of a chance. Then you mentioned the seasonal change, and you're probably aware that an antihistamine such as benadryl or quercetin is known to be recommended as an adjunct to the D3. There has been a mini trend that finds some respected CH'ers using DMT for aborts with 100% success rate, but it seems to be hard to source, and not exactly all that simple to extract either (plus it is one of those illegal psychedelics, although an extremely short lived, short trip one). I don't have a recollection of whether those PH affecting grapes and oranges have ever been discussed as having any effect on CH prone-ness. Personally I'd be skeptical that they'd be the culprits, but maybe we'll see if anyone is interested in discussing that.

Yep, prednisone and verap often prescribed together with the intent of the pred kicking in immediately, while the verap more gradually gains effectiveness. Personally I used to find a pred burst/taper could knock even a high cycle down - but just temporarily while at the high dose (which would be dangerous to stay on for a more sustained amount of time - I know, I pulled that very dumb stunt 33 years ago and am still paying for it).

Cluster Bunny®

I used to get broke neck on occasion (around our house we like to refer to it as the "Lock Neck Monster"), but I never thought to track whether it would precede a cycle. I do seem to recall a lot contributors here being a real pain in the neck reporting some serious neck pain, and I believe @Dallas Denny is one of them. "Cluster bunny"? Some genuinely classic gallows humor there! I hope you don't mind if I start using that - you should probably trademark it and require a royalty payment whenever it is mentioned.

This is new to me, but a very welcome idea to think that snorting a bit of ground black pepper, then letting out a whopper of a loud shnoz-blast could abort an attack. I wonder if it helps to keep mouth closed during the therapeutic sneezing session (I had seen some study where they determined most stuff expelled during a sneeze typically comes shooting out of the mouth)? Here's hoping you continue to successfully deploy "sneeezeborts", and please keep us apprised!

Spiny that reminds me to start planning on stocking up on heat sensitive vitamins (the B vitamins in a multi are especially in this category), before the hot months encroach here. And Joe maybe something for you to keep in mind too, that stuff shipped from the roasting US in the summer could be exposed to some high sustained heat on the way over there to the Emerald Isle?

This! ^^^ Ditto for me, just more of an evening habit in my case. I tend to come out of it feeling like a most welcome reset button has been pushed, and with a relative feeling of physical homeostasis. Now if I could just keep the meditation from triggering attacks while in cycle (oof!), much the same as other super relaxing activities such as naps and night time slumber will.