CH Trigger from anesthesia

[regarain28]

Hello All -

I was an episodic and eventually chronic cluster sufferer for over 12 years but over 2 years ago I was able to kick the clusters due to a great vitamin d protocol that I found on this forum!  Since then I have been doing great, however I just had my wisdom teeth removed 5 days ago and the last 2 days i have been surprised by 4 clusters up on the 7-8 scale.  The anesthesia used was a combination of propofol, fentanyl, and versed and I am really nervous and upset that this may have triggered my dormant clusters.  Has anyone had this experience?  Did the cluster cycle last a long time?  Im worried that I will just fall back to where i was a few years ago.  Any advice or help would be great!

VR

[CHfather]

SORRY!!!  Yes, dental anesthesia is very often a trigger.  Most commonly, it's epinephrine that's the cause, because that is part of the standard anesthetic for "normal" procedures.  I don't know about the three ingredients you list, and it would be very good to be able to tell others what to avoid.  Is it possible to check to see whether anything they used was similar to epinephrine?  (It's not unusual that someone has a question about anesthetics here, so the more we know, the better.)  (The reason that epinephrine is used is that it limits bleeding and apparently also prolongs the effect of the anesthetic.)

Of course, we can hope that there is just a short-term effect from this and you'll go back to the way things were before!

[jon019]

....good news and bad news...the worst hit i ever had (an 8 for 6 hrs that scared ICU nurses) was because a f*****g anesthesiologist blew me off when i begged him not to use epi. the good news: it did NOT trigger a cycle....