booboo Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 My husband has been an episodic sufferer for 22 years. When we met 24 years ago, he always had an issue with "dumping" right after eating. Okay stay with me here I have a point! He has been taking supplements and vitamins in high doses since before the Vitamin D regimen was implemented. We always knew his D levels were low since he would crave sitting in the sun and feel better after doing so. This past year has been an especially tough one for him. He had a really bad cycle, high pain levels and frequency and it took 5 busts to rid him of the beast. Although his attacks stopped, he had been in constant pain and agitation. Low energy, not sleeping well, head and neck pain, night sweats... and dumping. After much internet research (no trust of docs), he found this Dumping Syndrome. Outside of the fact he has not had gastric bypass surgery, he fit the description. Because his food was passing through too quickly, he was not absorbing nutrients effectively. We figured his love of craft beer might be a big culprit of his dumping. A month ago he stopped all alcohol and has stayed away from refined sugars. He feels like a million bucks! No more night sweats, higher energy levels, and his head ghost pain has mightily decreased! I am in no way saying he is cured of clusters...that would be a dream. However it has helped with this out of cycle ghost pains. I just wanted to share this to see if anyone else has experienced these symptoms or if this is just a one off case. The poop jokes may now commence... ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieutenant2 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Somewhere in here is an interesting thread regarding acetaldehyde. You should give it a read, there is some interesting information there. It may be more relevant to your husband's CH than you think. Simply not absorbing enough nutrients would lead to other health problems long before it would cause cluster headaches. But acetaldehyde? Interesting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgens Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I think there is something to the stomach/CH connection ,, my son is out of phase right now so I will have to wait till next go-round to try some more of my theory on him. good luck ,, was also at a "Health/food/organic" grocery store yesterday where I saw pro-biotics in a little carton called straight shots .. or something similar.. I didn't get out of line to buy any but I should have. next time for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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