Rivaman

this has been worrying me also. I'm very experienced with liberty caps. but no other variety or seed and as this is the first year in 20 that i've not been picking, I think It's almost hilariously ironic that i get diagnosed with cluster headaches now!! :

well.. time to start round 3

not had total relief for over a week now, that's what was scaring me before i knew what was happening, i thought i was having a stroke or something.. never been so scared in all my life and amazed at how definate i can be about what's wrong.. I kept saying to the docs the only time i'd felt pain like it was after an operation but even that wasn't as bad, and they still kept saying it was migraine, ah well at least it's got a chance to get treated now i suppose, it just seems that in the UK it's more of a struggle to get whats needed.. I hope to be proved wrong

gone through a lot of taurine and caffeine since yesterday.. made the error of drinking rum with it though. apart from that tried DHC. Asprin, diclofenac, but as you no doubt know painkillers don't do a thing.. had good results from THC, but the smell made me worse, could eating it be an answer? also been told to try melatonin. .any good?

squirm about on the floor in total agony basically.. not been asleep properly for ages

yes.. to be honest i've only been to hospital once.. after at least 4 weeks of untreated attacks it just got un-bearable. from what i've read I feel very lucky to have been diagnosed by my GP so soon after

Thanks a lot for your replies everyone. I'm feeling overwhelmed at the moment as this has probably been the hardest thing i've ever had to come to terms with.. Christmas day N all.. parents away on hols, so until i found this forum I really have been alone with it.. just got to try and wait for docs to open in 3 days.. for some reason i still feel like i shouldn't go to hospital with headache, extreme as it might be

newbie here.. just been diagnosed.. mid attack and still in shock too at the minute... OMG. been getting up to 4 attacks per day lasting between 1 and 3 hrs, wishing i had some oxygen now but docs prefer to hand out expensive sumatriptan tablets first for some reason.. bloody useless in my experience, by the time you've started to metabolise them it's too late, and it doesn't help when you're looking so desperate for help it looks like a junkie showing blatant drug seeking behaviour. and you're getting told that they themselves get migraine, I don't know about anyone else but i've seen lot's of people with migraine and never thought any one of them was in any where near in as much pain as i am feeling now. Like most of us I'm guessing, i'd never heard about cluster headaches until i was diagnosed... which still hasn't properly happened yet (my dr. said it might be CH on thurs 23rd and after looking it up I'm in NO doubt)... I think the point i'm trying to make is god damb i wish more docs could recognise this disease and put an end to many peoples suffering cos 1 or 2 percent of the population is still a lot of people.. who knows it could be even more than that, and in more ways than one that is the hardest thing i've ever had to write. Edit again... MERRY XMAS!