Hi so as far as the Pepcid it was more of test at first but I noticed the first 24 hours my symptoms reduced more than half so then I went to Benadryl. I sought out over the counter medicine that had the highest antihistamine so that’s why I went with the Pepcid first. I find the Benadryl has worked for me also and yes, it is a preventative measure. I noticed when I started taking it my brought my headaches down to 10 day a day.
As as the tiger bomb goes, when I start feeling the onset that being pressure throbbing pulsating on my left temple, I apply it ALL areas I feel anything lol… when I do that it does what it’s supposed to do, which is to confuse the nerves. If I’m awake and apply the tiger bomb that usually allows me to stop it and to control intensity and usually if I can do this, I can stop the headache altogether now usually
So holding my head to the right stops the pressure I feel in my neck and gives me a lot of relief, so when I feel it I turn my tech until I feel relief and when I do this I can feel the relief immediately so with the cluster headaches being associated with your C-2 and 3 joints it made sense, it feels like it stops the pressure altogether so sometimes I have to hold my head completely down in between my legs and other times I just take my head and hold it to the right side that combined with pulling my left shoulder down it gives me a lot of relief so the combination of tiger bomb as soon as I feel the onset, with holding my neck to side and using antihistamines as far as pain is brought my headaches down from 10 to 1-3 a day. As far as me being able to control the number of attacks that I have during the day is brought it down to 15 + to 5 a day.
Now ans far ans the oxygen, I don’t think that the oxygen really helps me. I have the individual cans. But when I try different breathing exercises like deep controlled breathing and also dragon breathing it helps me out a lot.
The D-3 I just started taking 12 days ago weeks ago because I’m in the middle of an attack now. I started taking the antihistamines first and that’s when I noticed the significant change.
Yes I have tried everything. Last year is when I first noticed holding my neck to the side gave me relief and my boyfriend broke his back so he swears by Tiger Balm and one day the pain was so bad I finally gave in and used it and it INSTANTLY gave me ALOT OF RELIEF. I even gave it to my friend that has tension headaches some and rubbed it on her head when she felt her headache coming and it stopped it completely! So yes I swear by this stuff now, I’ve went through 3 jars already this attack cycle.
I really hope this helps