jtmochel

Appreciate the sentiment. And apologize that doctorssuck haha.

Yeah I understand the standard medical treatments. And I'd like to avoid steroids cause they also turn me into a rage monster. And yeah I even got allergy tested and it was all negative. I agree my pain presentation is atypical. It's a combo facial/inferior orbital pain. But I'll get radiation to my eye and superior orbit area. I also get pupillary constriction, lagging eyelid, tearing, and runny nose on that side. Also I feel like I want to die sometimes... So if it's not episodic cluster headaches I'm stumped haha. But yeah... I'm almost 26 and I'm expecting it to get worse so I'm trying to figure it out. Plus I obviously want to be there for my patients in the future.

They last 45 to an hour and I think I've been having them for the last 8 years. I thought they were normal headaches at first and for the next 5 years I've been trying to treat sinus stuff haha. I was misdiagnosed a few times. (To be fair I was in medical school and misdiagnosed myself). But the location of pain was right over my maxillary sinus so it was hard to think anything else. So I've never tried anything because I didnt know what I was dealing with other than nasal steroids, netti pot, humidifier... allergy stuff ect. I had my first appt today just to get ECH on my problem list and I got oral sumatriptan but I'm doubting that will be most helpful to me. Thanks for the reply.

It seems like I would be a pretty good candidate for vitamin D?

Hey, in some ways I hesitate to post, only because I know what I deal with is candyland to most. Basically it's a 3 week window typically in fall and sometimes an additional 3 weeks I spring. I'll get one headache a day and maybe a couple days with two before going back down to one. These either occur around 7-9 AM or in the evenings. So I guess I'm curious if this is a typical story? The pain is bad and I've been nauseous but never screamed so I'm thinking a moderate severity. For small windows and minimal headache frequencies I'm thinking I don't need the big guns. There are many recommendations out there. Right now I was going to start back on my multivitamin, vitamin d, fish oil and add 10 mg of melatonin. Any advice on prevention/reduction would be a huge help. Jon