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(Message started by: wanna_swap_brains on Apr 11^th, 2008, 4:29pm)

Title: body temperature
Post by wanna_swap_brains on Apr 11^th, 2008, 4:29pm

hi,i read about exercising in warm enviroments being a trigger a bit ago and i noticed that sometimes when i had a hot bath ide get a bad un,anyone else have this or is it just coincidence?? been having a cold bath for 5 days and it aint happened at bath time since??thanks stuart

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by Ungweliante on Apr 11^th, 2008, 6:02pm

I don't know, but I've noticed a general drop in my body temperature from 36,8'C to 35,8'C since the clusters started last autumn. The doctor didn't think there's anything to it.

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by debOUCH on Apr 11^th, 2008, 7:25pm

havent had that one happen to me.......but a cold bath.bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! maybe just coincidence..................
deb [smiley=hug.gif]

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Apr 11^th, 2008, 7:54pm

Definately. I used to take sauna a lot, triggered me every time, so I stopped.
Hot tubs are bad news too.

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by monty on Apr 11^th, 2008, 8:01pm

I am more susceptible to heat when in cycle, and sweating makes the CH worse.

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by sandie99 on Apr 12^th, 2008, 5:22am

I've got hit quite often just minutes after a warm shower, so it is absolutely one of the things which trigger ch for me.

Sanna

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by wanna_swap_brains on Apr 12^th, 2008, 8:24am

thanks for replies,cold baths it is then even if it does make my knob look like a walnut whip.

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by Bob_Johnson on Apr 12^th, 2008, 11:59am

Remarkably little in the med literture on the topic although several of us have reported elevated body heat as a trigger for an attack.
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Lancet. 1999 Sep 18;354(9183):1001-2.
Comment in:
Lancet. 2000 Jan 8;355(9198):147.

A new cluster headache precipitant: increased body heat.

Blau JN, Engel HO.

Exercise, a hot bath, or elevated environmental temperature provoked cluster headaches, within 1 h, in 75 out of 200 patients. This new observation accords with recognised precipitants--alcohol, histamine, and gyceryl trinitrate--perhaps via generalised vasodilatation or hypothalamic activation.

Publication Types:
Letter

PMID: 10501368 [PubMed]

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by mezza on Apr 12^th, 2008, 11:26pm

interesting thread- something i have been going back and forth with with myself too. When I am feeling bad, lots of shadows, exhausted from the stress of dealing with the cycle i want a hot bath- I then always feel worse after, shadows are worse , etc.

So i have been thinking that the heat is trigger for me- I live in nc and a couple of days this week have been warm almost hot to point of sweating too. But i didn't notice that my head felt worse then- Been wondering whether if this cycle goes in summer and summer is extremely hot here- will that extend the cycle or make shadows worse?

something i've been thinking about too

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by beachmusic on Apr 13^th, 2008, 10:04am

I am one of those folks was always warmer than the average person. Everyone would bring a sweater to my house even if it was 90 degrees outside
Since I started having CH or better yet started the topamax/dopamax I am FREEZIN brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr always. Very strange [smiley=twocents.gif]

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by Annette on Apr 13^th, 2008, 9:45pm

High temperature was a definite trigger for my husband. Even when out of cycle, a few weeks ago when he did a lot of work outside under the hot sun and got tired and sweaty, he got a lingering shadow which was building slowly. He had to stop, take a cold shower and a Red bull before that one went away.

I think excessive heat causes vasodilation which can trigger a hit.

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by BarbaraD on Apr 14^th, 2008, 7:13am

When I'm getting hit my internal thermostat goes sky high. My house stays COLD - I just can't stand heat at all (baths excluded - they don't seem to bother me).

I do wear sunglasses outside (can't stand direct sunlight on my eyes at any time - winter or summer).

I've been on topamax since 99 so I don't think that's the reason - I think it's just the darn headaches.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by darknight on Apr 14^th, 2008, 7:41am

Hi Stuart,

Yer that happens to me when in cycle hot baths give me a screamer, but fine when not in cycle!
Doesnt have to be the bath if the heating is too high and no windows are open that can start one if i get too hot!

PFDAN to all!! ;)

Title: Re: body temperature
Post by LeeS on Apr 14^th, 2008, 12:57pm

on 04/12/08 at 08:24:31, wanna_swap_brains wrote:

thanks for replies,cold baths it is then even if it does make my knob look like a walnut whip.

LMAO ;;D

Most girls like walnut whips though 8)

-Lee