busting

[pictou]

sorry dumb question but does "busting" refer to stopping the headache or the cycle?  or something else entirely.  dumb question i know but dont want to assume

[Ricardo]

There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.  Feel free to ask anything, no matter how basic it seems to you. 

When people talk about "aborting" they are talking about getting rid of an individual headache.  When people talk about "busting" they are talking about the attempt to stop or at least lessen the severity of a cycle.

-Ricardo

[Bejeeber]

And may I add that when I talk about busting I'm specifically referring to using Rivea Corymbosa seeds, psilocybin, or other substances in that realm in the effort to stop the cycle.

That appears to me to be how it is "officially" used here in stickies like *BUSTING INSTRUCTIONS* and info for Newcomers, but sheesh have I been using the term incorrectly all these years, not realizing it actually should include prescription meds and the like? Doh. If we get more responses here I will be interested in how others have been thinking of it.

[CHfather]

I think of busting as using the substances that Jeebs refers to, to either end a cycle for someone with episodic CH or to achieve remission for someone with chronic CH, and then to prevent recurrences.  To me, this is the primary meaning of "busting."

But I guess I would also say that when those substances are used to abort individual attacks, through the SPUT method, that is also a form of busting.

Which leads me to conclude that I think of busting overall as using those substances to deal with CH -- primarily by ending the pattern of attacks (chronic or episodic) and preventing recurrences, but also sometimes to abort individual attacks.

[ThatHurtsMyHead]

For me, I think 'Busting' refers to alternative treatments not sanctioned by 'the man'   

(To terminate or positively impact the duration or intensity of a cycle)

J

[CHfather]

Speaking of treatments not approved by "the man,"

there's a letter in this week's New Yorker in response to that Michael Pollan article about psychedelics that I posted a while ago.  The author wrote this:

     "As a former director of the White House Office of Drug Abuse Policy, I now feel a sense of shame at having failed to try to reverse the Nixon-Ford policy that placed most psychedelics on the DEA's Schedule 1 list, prohibiting their use. Congress would almost certainly have blocked this change, but had we been able to lift the ban on scientific research into medical applications, doctors would probably now have a far better understanding of brain function, and the unnecessary suffering of many terminally ill patients could have been alleviated."

[tangerinearmy]

Wo

Speaking of treatments not approved by "the man,"

there's a letter in this week's New Yorker in response to that Michael Pollan article about psychedelics that I posted a while ago.  The author wrote this:

     "As a former director of the White House Office of Drug Abuse Policy, I now feel a sense of shame at having failed to try to reverse the Nixon-Ford policy that placed most psychedelics on the DEA's Schedule 1 list, prohibiting their use. Congress would almost certainly have blocked this change, but had we been able to lift the ban on scientific research into medical applications, doctors would probably now have a far better understanding of brain function, and the unnecessary suffering of many terminally ill patients could have been alleviated."

Big statement but does he have any influence nowadays