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    Tumor Necrosis Factor

    in Research & Scientific News

    Posted

    Do you need to have a hallucinogenic experience to bust a CH, or not?

    I've heard from knowledgeable Docs with opinions on both sides of this topic, it makes for fascinating conversation until their talk gets beyond my understanding.  :-)

    Sub-hallucinogenic, no hallucinations or full trip?? 

    My opinion is that a successful bust is not dependent on having or experiencing a trip,  but for some (including myself) to reach a therapeutic dose of psilo or lsd a trip is going to happen.  I believe its not the trip, but the amount.  (Bob said that once, lol)

    For comparison, it's kinda like taking a Tylenol for a tension headache.  Some people get away with 500 mg and some need 1000 mg.  It may not depend on size, body weight or intensity of that headache, some people just need more.   tolerance, adaptation, secondary factor.  Who knows??

    As for how this class of chemical works, the truth is there is so little know about most medications.  Efficacy is based on results and while they try to understand the physical and physiological pathway that often is not know.

    Using Tylenol again, read how it works:

    http://www.rxlist.com/tylenol-drug/clinical-pharmacology.htm

    "Although the exact site and mechanism of analgesic action is not clearly defined........"

    Some day I'm sure we will know how all this stuff works, tylenol, psilo, lsd and TNF.

    Hopefully by then CH will be eliminated also.

    Thread like this may lead to that!!

    Sorry, not trying to sidetrack the thread, this is all fascinating.

    And yes, most of it is way over my head too.

    FG

    article - pain meds & poisoning

    in General Board

    Posted

    Not to alarm anyone but this article is a bit frightening.   

    Many clusterheads consume a lot of painkillers, I've taken more than my share over the years.  :-(

    http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20111220/deaths-drug-poisoning-in-us-jump-sixfold

    It showed that 40 Americans die from prescription painkiller abuse every day.   YIKES!!

    Cocaine was involved in about 5,100 deaths and heroin was involved in about 3,000 deaths in 2008.

    5100/365 = 13 per day

    3000/365 =  8 per day

    Am I reading this correctly??     Good grief.

    40 per day from prescription painkillers.

    Wow.  Let be careful.

    FG

    Doug

    new here? - watch this first - video

    in General Board

    Update -- 2012 Conference in Vegas

    in Advocacy, Events and Conferences

    Posted

    Announcing Clusterbusters 2012 Conference in Las Vegas!

    Where: The Rio Hotel and Casino

    The Rio Hotel and Casino all-suite hotel offers suites featuring 600 square

    feet of spacious living and all the amenities of a first-class hotel. All of

    this for the negotiated rate of only $85 a night! 

    When: Friday September 21 at 10am to Saturday 5pm

    This year we are kicking off the conference with a President's Brunch! 

    Friday morning we will open with a lovely meet and greet brunch.

    Directly followed by the speakers and presentations.   

    This is one conference you will not want to miss.

    The booking information for the hotel will be available shortly; the

    registration details and speaker list will follow.   

    Room space is limited so reserve right away.

    New site search engine

    in General Board

    Posted

    DJ installed the google search yesterday, (I asked for one right after he installed one on ch.com)

    Thanks DJ.   :-)

    It will take several days for indexing to occur.

    The posts on the private boards remain unavailable to search engines and non-members.

    FG

    Med students

    in General Board

    Posted

    Well done.

    LOL, "i looked at their faces and how surprised they looked and how little they knew and how frightening they think it is when they do not know how to help a patient".

    They should be on the inside and see how frightening this actually can be when the doc dosn't know how to help.   Well, maybe best they aren't, wouldn't wish the CH on anyone.

    Ting, you've make their day, and ours. 

    Thank you.

    board down

    in General Board

    Posted

    Sorry all, the board went into maintenance mode last evening.

    I couldn't get it out and running again, not sure what happened.

    It seems to be working fine now.  (DJ to the rescue!!!)

    Sorry about that.

    FG

    Cluster Calendar

    in General Board

    Posted

    is there away our profiles can be linked to a calendar that track our cycles?

    The birthday calendar is built into the YaBB board programing, we can only have it or not, can't modify it.

    There were a couple of people/groups working on electronic CH calendars though I've not heard anything about that in a long time?

    Tracking you CH, knowing what works and when is IMO critical to managing your CH

    We are left with what we've always done, pencil and paper notes. 

    CH diaries in the files sections, keep lots of notes and charts. 

    Know your CH.

    Life in the stone age.   :-)

    FG

    Hello

    in General Board

    Posted

    I seem to recall a post long ago that explained why dissolving Imitrex was not a good idea, but I can't find it now.

    Anyone??

    Yep, most everyone here understands the sleep deprivation.   :-(

    new files

    in General Board

    Posted

    There are 2 new files down in the section "clusterbuster files"

    Posts by Tommy, Appendix A and Oxygen Information.

    Amazing work Tommy.  Simply great.

    We need a round of applause for this effort.   :-)

    D

    little problems

    in General Board

    Posted

    When you get that error, what head shows up at the top of your page, general board or global announcements?

    I think what is happening is when you click on the "last post" by me it takes you to where I moved the thread from. (it got lost into global, somehow)

    Once someone posts in that thread in the General Board, the problem should go away.

    I think.

    EDIT:  Got it figured out.  It is because I moved it from an admin section to general, it still thinks it's in the admin section.  Everything else in the thread works but my move line.  Sorry, can't fix that so I will delete it.

    little problems

    in General Board

    Posted

    It seems to be fine now, I think?

    Anyone else having problems.

    Some how it was that thread that messed up the index yesterday.

    It has been moved around.

    I may try and delete the posts about moving the thread, but I wonder what that might screw up??

    KI was online about when you posted this, I was doing some maintenance stuff. 

    That might have done it?

    Anyone else having problems.

    FG

    and ....   lol at Lenny  :-)

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