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Hello Buster, I for one did experiment with the GABA after reading the Lt2's post. I gave it a full blown regiment, I was in the throws of a full blown hateful cycle at the time. I started with 2 capsules per day and moved it up to 4 per day, until I they were gone (100 ct) I can honestly say they did nothing for me personally reducing either the severity or frequency of the attacks. Good news though, at that time I was dabbling in Licorice Root (Les Gensers) post and the GABA, both had no improvement. So I went back to the Vitamin M this time a substantially lager dose and IT WORKED. I now continue to use in cycle times and as maintenance dosing and have had WONDERFUL results. I can't thank the people on this site enough for the information and support, also my old co-worker who directed me to CB, without both I don't know how I could have managed. Try the GABA and if it works for you great, please let others know your results. Dave

Hi Mystina, I was able dose today(Saturday) kids went to Cave of the Winds with relatives, but that is a good thought about the late night, they head back to school Monday. They can't stay up and party like Rock Stars forever. I think I will give this the 4-5 day test and see where it takes me, and probably find some more RC seeds and try the float test that I hadn't tried before. Thanks for kind words earlier and the thoughtful advice. Dave

Great insight Jeff, because without having any knowledge on what seeds are potent vs. worthless I guess i have no idea. Where as with shrooms I have had experience prior to being diagnosed w/ CH and I can recognize potency. Is it really just a crap shoot ordering seeds on-line? And how did you secure what you call Potent HBWR seeds? Dave

Bejeeber, thanks for the advice, I have the O2, although had to convince Apria for a delivery Monday for more tanks, told them i had been kinda busy and it slipped my mind. Question for you, I was reading Trypta's link where you said you bust with M but your able to maintain now with RC Seeds, I hope I could become the same way since i have luck with the M but I have 2 9 year old twins running around the house I don't want to trip around them. Seeds sounds like a much better choice. Prior to me mega dosing with the shrooms and getting one up on CH , I had bought 4 bags of 100 (120) seeds and had no success. Started with 25-30 went up to 60 or so, felt good kinda that night but never really beat down a cycle. Is it better for you with the seeds and mixing in M, or are you capable of maintaining on seeds alone? Dave

Thanks for the kind words and thoughts, this is a terrible double whamy, my mom passed away yesterday @ 4:00pm and then got hit 3 times again last night in between thinking about her, will have to wait till this weekend to dose. Got to be strong and keep it together until then, also stay away from the sumatriptan. Dave

Thanks Jeff & Beejeeber, From all I had I read, I thought that would be the consensus. I think I'll hold on to what I've got for another day. Also worked for the better anyway between the time I posted my question now I have been at the hospital all day with my mom, their going to let her pass away probably tomorrow :'(. So I know it was better I asked the question and waited, if anyone knows any prayers or well wishes I'd definitely appreciate it. Pain Free Days MOM- I love you Dave

Morning fellow CH'ers I am looking for a little advice or similar situations concerning Sumatriptan. I just went in for my yearly physical and discussed my Cluster Situation with my Internal Dr, she is very open minded and receptive to what I have doing to control my Clusters(Vitamin M). But I did let her know a customer of mine gave me one of his Sumatriptans and it worked for me on knocking out my shadows during a couple week bout of pretty severe CH. So she prescribed them for me and I did a 50mg Thursday 8/2, now it turns out I have an opportunity to bust tonight the kids are going on a sleep over and I'm alone. Will that 1 dose of the Sumatriptan effect my busting attempt tonight? I don't use any other meds just O2 and energy drinks

Hope I got it done in time. 7/9/12 Dave

Morning Bubbles, I'm in the beautiful state of Colorado, I live in Aurora and I'm a "Buster" Dave

Hey BB, if your catchin eyes like that and the clusters aren't hitting, I don't see why you would do anything else. Could of used one that size last tournament I was in...Nice Fish!! Dave

Hi Gang, wanted to call on your expertise with my cycle starting to pop up again. Back in late January I was able to break my what I thought was a chronic cycle, it had been going from August thru January. I was able to obtain relief by doing what I called a "Mega Dose" about 3 or so grams. It went away and then about 2 weeks later I started getting random smallish hits that I aborted w/ O2. Then I took a "Normal Dose" for me about 1.5 grams and had been PF up until about a week ago, then random more frequent hits until now I get them about 1-2 a day about every other day. This is nowhere close to where I was at prior to the successful bust. So I was calling out to see if I was to have been doing maintenance doses like every other month or just when I feel them coming back. Anybody out there living with a similar situation I can draw from? Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated Thanks, Dave O

Hi Kymera, I had the the sleep study done when I was diagnosed by my doctor. He was a neurologist/sleep doctor so I guess I got the best of both worlds except he just prescribed Oxycontin and muscle relaxants, didn't do a bit of good. But I also had sleep apnea and he prescribed the CPAP for me. Tell you what when I wasn't getting attacked the CPAP provided me the best sleep I had in years that is between attacks. So I also suggest getting checked out it couldn't hurt what little time we have between attacks should be spent in as good a sleep as we can get. Didn't wake myself or the wife up, didn't get up to pee 5-6 times a night, and I have a customer who knows someone who died from the apnea just quit breathing during sleep and by the time his wife noticed he was brain dead...True story. Dave O

December 2011?? Great, but we have many Nat Geo channels here on comcast. Which one will it be on?And if anyone ever comes across a firm date I'd be very interested in knowing. Thanks, Dave

Hi Anthony, I used the IamShaman site, and it was totally satisfactory, and easy. They got to me in 3 days and they did followup and tracking ...(Painless). We got enough pain. I started w/ 35 seeds crushed and soaked in Peppermint Tea for 3 hours, but like Lt.2 said don't smell it and do your best to just throw it all back in one gulp, YEEEUUUCCCKKK. Didn't do any "tripping" or feel anything other than normal, slept pretty good that night w/ only a real early morning small hit @ 5:30ish the next morning. I will post later after a few days with some results. Dave

Hi Kika, My seeds just arrived today and i went and got some pepermint tea. Do you boil the tea and than let it cool down b-4 adding the crushed seeds, and than wait wait 2 hours while they soak in the tea? Did you take them right before you went to bed?

Thanks CHfather, Ordered the seeds this morning, hoping someone there is working on Labor day,maybe not hope their enjoying a day off also. i will follow up with results...hopefully good. And by the way CHF, after reading most the posts I see your are advising and providing links and guidance and best wishes to everyone, thanks for all you do!!! The world could use more caring helpful people like you

Thanks, Bob & CH father, I just found your posts while I was on the Special Donations link I hadn't seen before. Bob I think I'll take your advise and follow some of those links from there and purchase some seeds asap. I saw a couple members had commented on both value and satisfaction from acquiring these online, anyone else had better experiences with one vendor vs. another, and what about the potency, does it do all it claims??Is one of their strains or varieties better? Dave O

Hello fellow CH'ers, It's been a while since my last post, but have been following the site and studying the FAQ's trying to find my way as to the best course of action to our affliction. I was finally able to locate some mushrooms earlier this summer and waited until the onset of my fall cycle, I was about a week into it when I was provided some time without the kids around to take my 1st dose(about 1.5grams) forgot how much fun they were it had been 30 some years,Weeeee. That night during sleep I was awoken by a mild-bad hit I aborted with O2 quickly. I then went 3 nights and days totally pain free and the "Fuzzy" feeling was completely gone. I was ecstatic, unfortunately Wednesday that week I felt them coming back and was hit with 3-4 a night for the next 3 nights, and a couple at work. I remember reading to wait 5 days between dosing, but waited till the following Saturday, again without the kids around, same size dose of 1.5 or a little more, did you know when you watch the Broncos on shrooms, their uniforms are more blue and orange than when your not tripping?? Wow who knew. This time I was pain free that night and no fuzzy feeling up until the following Thursday. Thursday night came and I was on the O2 b-4 I went to bed and was hit with 3 that night and at least a couple every night since...bummer. Am I doing this correctly, should I have started prior to the cycle, and if I need more how the heck am I going to get any?(Rhetorical question). Any thoughts anyone? I loved the PF days, it was like a breathe of fresh air, I miss em. Dave O.

Thank you Les, I appreciate you taking the time to research from your manual and responding to my inquiry, although it wasn't the answer I wanted to hear I kind of suspected it wouldn't be as easy for me...darn. I'll definitely review with the Doctor and try to seek a pharmacist who can find a minute to discuss. Thanks again, Dave

Thanks Lt2, That's interesting potential scary news for me. I did recently discuss the possibly of using alternate methods with my primary physician to help w/ my CH, and during the physical she said she was familiar with Licorice tincture and thought my BP being under control was a viable option. I look forward to all input from anyone with a similar condition and maybe if Les was available to respond, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Everyone, I'm back and happy to have computer access again. Been a long time and so many links ago since the computer crashed. I had a lot of catching up to do and have now spent a whole day reading Les's thread. Had the significant other log on with a new user name but I'm still Dave O. Many questions come to mind, but in following this thread most have been answered. I'm currently in a full blown cycle with 2-3 hits a night 6-8's I have been aborting w/ O2 and they go away in 20-30 minutes. But recently have been getting them at work, I slam a Monster and grab an ice pack and try to hide for a while. Interesting observation though, took a couple days off with the kids, went to our condo in the Mountains and relaxed. Don't know if it's getting away from work, home or just relaxation but two nights Pain Free. Handy your situation sounds similar to mine, I also have BP being treated by lisinopril/HCTZ, seems to be controlled by medicine I check it daily. I just picked up some Herb Pharm licorice extract and was looking for some advice-From anyone. Since I'm Pain Free for 2 days, do I hope the cycles complete or do I start a regiment of "Preventive" dosing today. If the cycles broken, what's the shelf life for the Licorice extract? By the way, Les thanks for all the very informative insight and if I do start the Licorice I will follow up with results. Dave