davepmoll

Thanks for the replies. I'll try staying on the O2 longer. Busting is what brought me here and I am willing to try it. In the meantime I will look into the licorice root. O2 has been so effective and since I get most of them at night, I gave up Imitrex long ago. In fact, Maxalt was better for me than Imitrex and Maxalt didn't have the nasty tight-muscle feeling. Thanks again. It's good to hear that this strong cycle is just par for the course.

Hello to everyone. A great resource and community you have here. I'm a classic acute CH'er. Got my first one at 11 years old. I've been cyclical since 20. I'm 41 now. Spring is always tough for me. The autumn cycle has waned a bit in my autumn years. The past six years has been as predictable as these 'alarm clock headaches' can be: 2-4 week cycle that starts in April, CH wakes me at 11:30 pm, oxygen therapy for 20 minutes, at about the 10 day mark I'll get one at 2:30 in the afternoon, and then that night I'll get one that mocks my oxygen therapy while I suffer through it. Cycle runs its course, see you next Spring. This cycle has been nothing like I've ever had. Over a month ago the wife and I were out for dinner. One beer into dinner and Hello Beast. Not a bad one but he was early this year. I waited and waited for the cycle to start but nothing for a few weeks. Once the cycle starts, I can tell already it will be a tough cycle: a couple headaches a day, but oxygen is working. Then it became one after the other starting at 5pm.  I'd treat that one and get another at 9pm. Then another around midnight. Then I would sleep. Last Wednesday I got my 5 pm headache. Oxygen barely treated it. My 9pm one was the WORST one I ever had. Intense pain. Oxygen did nothing. It just didn't stop. My poor, scared wife had enough and took me to the ER at 3 am (with our 4 year old in tow. My wife is something special but I am sure most of you CH'ers can say that). They pumped me full of IV drugs: Relgan, Benadryl, steroids and other drugs I can't remember. The headaches were gone after that but returned again two nights ago. Now I just get them in my sleep. The CH wakes me, I treat it and it returns 90 minutes later. This happened the last two nights. Thanks for reading this far and now I can ask the question: Is this just an odd cycle or is something else at work? Are these acute headaches becoming chronic? Any suggestions for breaking this cycle? Thanks again and my heart goes out to each and every one of you who has to manage this horrible condition.Â