igdc Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Do you take your rescue medicine (e.g., Zomig) for the milder of the cluster headaches? It's so expensive and there are so few of them in a prescription... I feel like I'm hoarding it for the really terrible attacks, but maybe there's some reason to try to kill all of them quickly? Like having one can lead to having another and another? I have a mild one now and am not sure if I should just wait through it (doable) or take the medicine so I don't trigger a new cycle. (And definitely, I need to take my verapamil. I've been lazy with the doses the last week or so due to work and holidays. Dumb of me...) Thanks. P.S. I don't have oxygen therapy. I started my first cycle - this same one - in September. We're working with a ton of different medicines with success (mostly), but I'm not on that yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igdc Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 On 1/6/2020 at 9:35 PM, Brain on fire said: If you repeatedly abort with triptans you run the risk of increasing the cycle, the frequency, the severity of the ch & may be one of the ones who switches to chronic as a result. Thanks for the reply. Agreed that falling off on my preventatives was really stupid. Also, do you have any formal citations for the above piece of it? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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