Bejeeber

Luck, shmuck, that $1 mil is practically a guaranteed win for you DD, so it's time to decide how to spend it, and get out there and make some down payments on stuff! Heck, why not get busy now charging some major items on the credit card if it doesn't have to be paid off until after the 18th? ;D ;D Seriously though GOOD LUCK, I think you're a genuine contender.Â

Wow Carl sounds like one in a billion who lived so large and whose legacy will live on. Hey, you told him once, that said it all, and it means you're clearly not a w***er, just very lucky to have been good pals with Carl.Â

2013 sounds like it has started in a fantastic way for you and Jan indeed!! [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif]

Don't we WISH! :'( Getting it tested and approved will take a while still, but we just heard a rumor that things could be moving in that direction again this year. 8-) It can vary from individual to individual, and can especially depend on whether one is in cycle or not, but 1.5g to 2g of cracker dry vitamin M seems like it has become a pretty standard dosage range for those who have previous experience with it and have an idea of what to expect. It's necessary to wait around 5 days between *higher* doses like that, and sometimes just one dose will knock out a cycle for someone, other times it can require a few doses. It's important to be detoxed from meds like triptans for 5 days or so before busting too. A maintenance dose between cycles tends to be done every 2 to 6 months, depending on the behavior of an individual's CH. Busting with mushrooms works for a very large percentage of us, but there can be a CH'er here or there that it doesn't seem to work for. That's not the standard way to dose at all, but funny you should mention it, a discussion was recently resurrected here where at least one guy took very small doses daily and had success. I believe that approach is still thought of as more experimental, not generally proven. Here's the link to that discussion: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1356659939 Glad you have found your way to busting for CH Zoroy. This busting thing has saved a lot of CH'ers!Â

Doh! My cover is blown for 2013! ;D And perusing through Bob's post I realize 2012 has revealed Altruistic to be Jerry's middle name. I dunno though, Jerry "Altruistic" CHfather could have a nicer ring to it - doesn't exactly roll right off the tongue.;D How about just simply "Alty" for CHf's new nick name?Â

:o FECK YEAH :o And that goes for both BOL 149 and BOL-148. ;D Little birdies been telling you all kinda astounding stuff lately DD.Â

Is that Jerry Stiller??!! ;D

Whole lotta successful [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif] BUSTING [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif] going on around here lately! [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif] Must be that Mayan calendar / dawn of a new era thingy. ;D

YES. Here's to that being a continuing trend all the way to PF. 8-)

Really liking hearing about this continued PF nighttime stuff Birdman.

From what I've experienced and seen reported here, for many of us that can be a strong dose range, but an occasional CH'er does have a higher tolerance and requires more. So this is cracker dry Vit M, not fresh, that you're weighing?

Hi Twan, Sorry you're experiencing a CH bout, but GLAD you live in Holland where a natural CH remedy more effective than any drug can be purchased legally, and that you've already received excellent, spot on advice from CHfather here. He gave you all of the most important condensed info/insight, I agree with it all 100%, and you'd do well to consider it your CH Bible. 8-) Yes, many of us have tried magic mushrooms and find them to work very well. Try not to be too discouraged by any slapbacks, I hope you can abort them.

That's a heckuva news story - I'd never heard any of that before about why Christmas presents are red and white under a snow flocked tree, why red and white dressed Santa comes down the chimney, and why he has flying reindeer.[smiley=vrolijk_1.gif] http://news.yahoo.com/magic-mushrooms-may-explain-santa-flying-reindeer-210334389.html

I'm also kinda figuring that if anyone else had success with GABA after seeing L2's posts they likely woulda mentioned it. I went back through my Cluster notes and see that I tried Now brand (a good brand) GABA 1500 mg per day for 17 days then went off it as it seemed ineffective for me - I was continuing to have the same strong shadows I had before going on it.

Sorry I don't know which SSRI is least likely to interfere, but there definitely have been encouraging reports in addition to Birdman's of CH'ers successfully busting while remaining on their SSRI. Have you been busting with Vit M? Would hope it would offer improvement in mood/outlook as it does - significantly as Jeff mentioned - for some of us, but if not, I guess that's something that would be good for us to know.

I think you've created a new slogan to include in your profile info Beast Buster! ;D

What Jerry said. We thinks about ya all the time, heck you're a central part of the family, and I sure hope Santa will put some shunt/vascular relief in your stocking already. Glad that you have those kitties - they can be great spirit keeper uppers indeed. Maybe we'll get to see some pics of 'em when you're feeling better. 8-)

After seeing Beast Buster's vibration technique for CH pain relief from the the lower branch of the trigeminal nerve I'm inspired to share my mid trigeminal CH reliever technique, although it may be a bit much to ask to get Potter on board with 2 of these in a row... I mainly experience CH centered in the mid trigeminal branch - the 'ol nuclear pinging right behind the cue ball eyeball. Once while up at 3 AM after a partial abort of a high cycle whopper wake up hit, I was sitting in a daze with my head in my hands, unconsciously pressing/rubbing what felt like a nerve ending spot on the the top of my eyeball (eyelid closed of course, eye "looking" downwards). The pain went entirely away to my surprise. I repeated this several times on subsequent days, was able to squelch shadows and lingering after hit pain, and like BeastBuster with his vibration technique for the lower trigeminal area, I think also potentially diminish the severity of a given full on attack. It's a weird thing to do when experiencing a CH hit because there is a temporary additional pain when finding the nerve or whatever it is, then pressing that spot while rapidly vibrating the finger, sorta like they do with reflexology. Also there can be a deep, creepy kind of "itch" feeling along that "nerve" when the bullseye has been hit. I think I'll dub my shadow killer technique the Jeebs-Jibulator.....um unless someone can think of a better name. To recap: the jeebs-jibulator in a nutshell: Guinea Pigs welcome - pay is lousy.

WHA??!! ;D BeastBust, Potter isn't necessarily known for agreeing with such treatments so this is a watershed day.

Well I've heard that sort of thing too, and of course it was very wrong, because being on the websites and learning about how other CH'ers had taken matters into their own hands, how they were beating this thing, was how I found out how to much more successfully approach it myself. It was a lifesaver. That's not an easy thing for others to understand, since the ordinary approach for a malady is to consult a doctor, follow the instructions given, and take your mind off of it, as too much researching on the subject can be counterproductive and obsessive. It's just not the case with us though, since most of us really have to take charge of our own treatment, and we have to be really well informed in order to do that. I hope that venting here here will help ya, this is a good place for it, and of course you're not really all alone, your HF (headbanger family ;D) is here for you.Â

Santa visited you early this year! Glad he knocked the beast down in the 3rd round. ;D

Certain terms for your neuro such as "a-hole" and "jerk" immediately come to mind. Â :-?

Understood. If one of the little concentrated energy shots would be easier to hold down, those have been known to work too. At least they only require one short swig before you're on the O2. 8-)

Hi Avril, fingers vigorously crossed here too for a successful nerve block today. So glad to see our voonderbar JackieB and CHfather have greeted you with some great info right off the bat. Many many CH'ers here (including myself) have found busting to be significantly more effective at preventing CH than any drug. So I'm thinking there's a very good chance it could help you too.Â

Well that's always a concern with the lousy once every hour night hits isn't it? HATE those. > Hopefully you are holding the mask to your face, so if you fall asleep it just falls away? It's dangerous as you already likely know to fall asleep with a mask strapped on. I suppose another idea to prevent running out of the O2 would be to set an alarm for 20 minutes or so from the time you start the O2. I'd be tempted to do this with my iPhone - maybe someone can comment on whether there's any significant spark/fire risk of operating a smart phone while on the O2.....