Hello, new here and first post. I started getting cluster headaches when I was a sophomore in high school. I would get them every day in 4th period during my first ever cycle. Fast forward 17 years later, I usually go into my cluster cycle every 2-3 years and that cycle last about a month.
it’s sounds super weird when I say this, but when I feel my CH creeping from the back of the neck to the side of the head. I’ll hop in the shower with the lights off before it hits the eye. When it starts to hit the eye, I’ll masturbate in the shower. And after I am done, it shoots the pain away from the eye and to a VERY tolerable pain back to the side of my head. And then I’ll sit in the shower for another 10 mins and my cluster headache will be done. If I get woken up by one and the pain is already at the eye, I go straight into the shower and do that.
sounds crazy, sounds perverted… I know. This isn’t someone trying to be funny, I have had to be rushed to the hospital during an attack because I was in so much pain. I went vegan for a year after that attack because I read that it may help prevent cycles. But this home remedy works for me. My ex in the past who suffers from bad migraines. On our 3rd date we were talking about our headaches and I told her my trick and she was like “hilarious because I do the same thing for my migraines.”
don’t knock it until you try it.
