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  1. Don't know about the dreams, I seldom dream when in or out of cycle.  :-(

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    I am a little worried that I might start the cycle again by trying the shrooms treatment---

    There in lays the dilemma. 

    What if you don't try and start into cycle?

    What if you do try and do start into a cycle?

    What if you don't try and don't?

    What if you do and don't?

    Seriously. 

    The truth is we may never know.  But the experience of so many suggests you try IF you are prepared properly.  Set and setting stuff.  Game face on.

    Good luck.

    Dg

  2. Somewhere I have several very old articles on light therapy.   

    The thought was it ties into the hypothalamus-pineal-melatonin axis. 

    Seems to have worked for some, not for others/most.  (several threads on ch.com)

    Does that sound way to familiar with most anything in CH treatment??  :-(

    There are also several people that claim moving closer to the equator (more hours of sun) help with their CH. 

    FG

  3. Thanks for putting this up Kyle.

    Amazing technology and interesting findings from the study.

    "VBM showed that patients with cluster headache (vs. those without) had significantly more gray matter atrophy in several areas of the pain matrix network, including the right thalamus, bilateral posterior cingulate cortex, bilateral middle frontal gyrus, right middle temporal gyrus and right precentral gyrus (P<0.001)."

    --yep.  Can someone explain what all these areas do?

    "Additionally, the extent of atrophy in the left middle frontal gyrus correlated with disease duration (P<0.001)."

    --this seems to agree with a thought I've always had:  living with this sort of recurring pain for this many years can't be good for us in the long run.   

    "Although prior research with VBM and positron emission tomography found patients with cluster headache had abnormalities in the hypothalamus—proposed as a key component in the pathophysiology of cluster headache—the current study showed no such abnormalities."

    -- this is something to watch.  When the early PET scans showed hypothalamus activity it was hoped this might lead to more targeted treatment possibilities.  (hypothalamic deep brain stimulation).   Maybe not???

  4. Hi Riy

    The answer is maybe.   ;-)

    Busting is not very complicated but it does require some thought and planning.

    The shadow lasts all day?

    Can you give us a bit more information about yourself and your headaches.  What you've tried, what works and doesn't work, what you are taking now for abortives and/or preventatives.

    FG

  5. Hi IMH.

    Glad you are enjoying the forum.  We don't' have enough experience with HC and mushrooms, so the answer is mabe?

    However......

    I cringe at self-diagnosis.  There are too many other things that cause headaches of any sort, it behooves you to get a proper evaluation, testing as indicated and a diagnosis. 

    See Scott's thread here:

    http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1305417199

    HC is a strange condition and is usually very responsive to Indomethacin:

    http://www.headaches.org/education/NHF_HeadLines_Excerpts/Case_Studies_in_Headache_Archive/CS_157

    http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hemicrania_continua/hemicrania_continua.htm

    IMO, every person with headaches the resemble CH (HC, EPH, CPH, etc) should undergo a trial of indo as it is seldom helpful in CH but very effective in others that look like CH.

    Nasty side effects but there are ways to deal with that.

    Good luck

    FG

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