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[Re: A politically charged video now since removed] I'd say blatant ultra political stuff is pushing it whether couched in rapping or not. A political post from the other end of the spectrum just got removed, in order to keep divisions from being stirred up, or wedges driven between CH'ers. Politics will drive those wedges, and has been shown to drive those wedges - I know that is not your intention @BoscoPiko, so you may wish to reconsider posting political content.

The beast can come a knockin' via heredity, bonkings on the noggin, or a combo of the two. That is just my hunch after seeing the reports of various headbangers over the decades.

Slept through the night??!!. Dude, how the hell did that happen?! It's a Christmas ketamine miracle! WOW, not that decreased frequency and intensity for some hits compares in any way to being PF, but sounds like a significant improvement. What encouraging news on the theoretically darkest (shortest) day of the year, although it is in fact sunny here, and I bet it is there too in your newly adopted Sunshine State.

While we're ranting on, I'm gonna continue to threadjack (sorry), and full on belly-ache about how when I try to supply a review acknowledging the 'get a free bottle if you help us skew our reviews through trickery!' offer that came with the product, Amazon won't publish it.....

Ah, thanks - I got some Boswellia at one point, but got suckered by the high Amazon ratings of another brand, even though I've trusted NOW brand for a long time. Of course when I received my bottle from the other brand it had a prominent sticker attached offering a FREE extra bottle if you give them a great review. To me that explained their high customer rating, and it instantly dashed my confidence as I sat there holding that jumbo bottle of buyer's remorse in one hand, face palming with the other.

The moniker for Batch, who is the founder of the D3 regimen, is now @xxx.

Hi @Theresa, I would also be interested in what brand of Boswellia pills are being taken?

YES - man that sounds encouraging - it's as if Florida may not turn out to be so bad for your cluster treatment after all. Well now that you're getting to this point anyway, with smoke hopefully clearing from going through the drawn out ringer from hell since relocation.

You sure you don't want to wait 'til New Years?

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.^^^^^^^

@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.

On that weed related note, lately I've found that puffing some CBD bud (Elektra strain, no THC) before bed seems to help sleep longer before the first of the several wake ups. @xBoss, interested in whether there is a particular strain you find most effective or just weed in general? I'm pretty sure most weed strains would leave me just lying there all paranoid for a while if I were try smoking before bed.

I would also say from I've read and experienced, an hour is too long for a nap - more like 15 minutes is supposed to be better for you. Of course naps are practically guaranteed triggers for many CH'ers when in cycle, so are a total no go just on that account, but it sounds like you can get away with them.

Highly amusing and approved forum name @DoesMyEyeLookSmall! Constantly waking up 3-4 times a night for no reason? I've been experiencing the same thing for a little while - here lemme figure out for a minute how long it's been.......OK, got it: 42 years. Roughly coinciding (or maybe exactly coinciding, I dunno) with the onset of my episodic CH. My deal may be more accurately described as waking 4-5 times a night, and pretty much always in the middle of dreams, so there's a difference there. Annoying, and certainly not a good thing, but hasn't killed me yet. There was a short time when a supplement named "Relax'n Sleep" that contained the usual suspects such as magnesium, valerian, etc., seemed to help a bit, same for just plain magnesium citrate, but then no. I'm not one who is helped by the melatonin or benadryl that the helpful @kat_92 mentioned, but some certainly are, so I figure worth a try. I personally wouldn't be trying taking a drug like amitriptyline for it, but I try to avoid regular use of the pharmaceuticals in general. I believe CH'ers are pretty notorious for tendencies to not be the greatest sleepers, whether in cycle or not.

Prior, when doomsday approacheth, is a super effective time - a tactic that has prevented entire cycles for folks such as meself.

I seriously need to repeat this over and over to myself until it sinks in and sticks - I can see myself going for this without hesitation in the event of an O2 fail or unavailability.

I've been hit on a flight and was lucky enough that visiting the lavatory was allowed right then (I went in and administered an imitrex injection). Besides the SPUTs CHfather mentioned, I've also brought, or purchased in one of the stores after going thru security, an energy shot to have right in a pocket at all times, ready to deploy in an instant (without having to go dig it out of any carry on). Then in the other pocket, a nasal sumatriptan. This may not be the case w/you, I know, but some CH'ers have been under the mistaken impression that you're supposed to do a strong snort, or any kinda snort when deploying one of the triptan nasals. This can make it end up dripping back down the throat some, and blech. That's not so likely to occur though when doing it all proper-like, where you just shoot the SOB up the shnoz, no snortsy.

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.

I just looked up and learned something about hydroxyzine thanks to Juss. He's turning us into a bunch of nerds.

Sage. Advice. Whoa - Happy ThanksBirthGivingDay, or however such a dual event is negotiated @BoscoPiko !

YES - an actual ray of hope.

Here's hoping the strangeness is a sign the infusions have Mr. McBeastBerry USA on the run! Contacting the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders now.

While I know rebounds to be a very real issue, for my personal case of ECH, I've found a different perspective on this - I've experienced a couple not-busted cycles where I've aborted every single attack that broke through the preventative efforts (this could be like 6 attacks a day in high cycle), and I rode the entire 2.5 months duration out that way. Made it to the end, cycle stopped. Very luckily had long remissions afterwards. No particular threat (YET anyway) of going chronic. So for me, "abort 'em all!" has so far proven to be an effective and worthwhile strategy, in the absence of a full on busting-prevents-the-cycle-entirely success.

As your "all of our worst nightmares" level of CH has stubbornly persisted, at least these not as bad attacks following the second infusion do come across as a possible ray of hope. I don't suppose a high school football cheerleading squad in the parking lot outside the clinic chanting "Let's Go K Hole!", "Let's Go K Hole!" and performing inspiring acrobatics while you're getting an infusion would be realistically feasible to arrange, but count me as a member of a virtual squad cheering you on. Rustling up some pom poms now.

That is the impression I have also gotten (especially with their phosphatidyl serine for improved memory).