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(Message started by: ShootMePlz on Jan 1^st, 2006, 9:16pm)

Title: Sinus Buster
Post by ShootMePlz on Jan 1^st, 2006, 9:16pm

Suffering & lurker here..... my mother in law (whose a nurse & always looking for an answer) just called recommending giving this product a shot.

I couldn't find anything on prior posts except a small thread that didn't contain any information.... any one?

~ A ~

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 1^st, 2006, 9:18pm

Uh...exactly WHAT product are you referring to here?

Linda

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by Mr. Happy on Jan 1^st, 2006, 9:53pm

on 01/01/06 at 21:16:49, ShootMePlz wrote:

I couldn't find anything on prior posts except a small thread that didn't contain any information.... any one?

99% nyet, a few folks yelling YEAH, and the rest not bothering with it. Mostly, considered a foul ball.

See Civimide Trials. (http://www.ouch-us.org/gatherings/03.htm)
RJ

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by ShootMePlz on Jan 1^st, 2006, 10:26pm

Sorry, was asking about the nasal spray. This is some of what I read on the site www.sinusbuster.com :

~ A ~

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I have been suffering for 6 long weeks with horrible mind bending cluster headaches. Someone at work had mentioned a treatment that was derived from pepper spray and I thought he was nuts. ...... I thought I would give it a try since the Imitrex I was taking along with the three advils every 4 hours were probably going to kill me ..... I tried it and MAN-O-MAN!!!!!! Talk about a blast of relief! I probably squeezed a little too much the first try as I was doing the pain dance. I wish I would have known about this product sooner. Thanks for an excellent and almost instant end to my cluster headaches. So your little $9 bottle has replaced two Imitrex, and 18 advils per day. Oh, by the way, last night was the first full night of sleep I have had in 6 weeks and without any medication and awoke without the lovely piercing headache.
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My brother had cluster headaches for many years, and nothing his doctor did seemed to help. Then he heard about sinus buster. He tried it and hasn't had a cluster headache since. He uses his spray daily to prevent having headaches.
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Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by E-Double on Jan 1^st, 2006, 10:28pm

You'd be better off using Texas Pete according to most who have tried it.

Do you have anything else to abort your attacks?

Oxygen? Triptans?

Good luck!!

E

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by ShootMePlz on Jan 1^st, 2006, 11:22pm

I have been episodic since 1998 with 2-3 month cycles coming two years apart (I know by some I'm lucky I get the 2 yrs free). During the begining I played the test subject for most of the preventatives with nothing working.

This recent cycle I finally took the shroom approach (1 treatment so far) that reduced my every 4 hour attacks lasting up to 2 hours to only a few attacks a day. Only down side is they aren't on schedule so its difficult to prepare.

Given the shortage of the shrooms for a 2nd dose I fell to the hands of my neuro who is starting me on the Vap treatment and O2 and the battle with the insurance company on the Trex stat dose. I also take Melatonin.

All the while searching for the ever ellusive "magic mixture" that will work for me.

~ A ~

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by Jonny on Jan 2^nd, 2006, 2:41pm

on 01/01/06 at 23:22:16, ShootMePlz wrote:

All the while searching for the ever ellusive "magic mixture" that will work for me.

~ A ~

Mine was 600 mgs Lithium and 480 mgs Verapamil a day.

It stopped 85% of HA's from ever breaking through.

Good luck in your search!!

..........................jonny

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by cmoore on Jan 2^nd, 2006, 6:29pm

If you have not been on clusterbusters in a while, or if you have not seen anything about seeds containing LSA, you might want to look into it. Very similar to the shrooms. There are a few threads about people, me being one of them, having some success with RC Seeds.

or on the clusterbusters site:
http://www.clusterbusters.com/faqlsa.htm

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by ShootMePlz on Jan 2^nd, 2006, 7:00pm

I have seen the post about the seeds as I've been lurking around reading everything I can get my hands on again since my recent cycle started in mid-November. Sad to say fear kept me from expanding beyond modern medicine until I couldn't take it any longer and took the plung with the shroom.

Its funny because I've on again/off again dabbled with X during the past year and I have found that if I take just a chip or a quarter of good quality product I can reduce the number of attacks as well. When that supply ran dry the shrooms seemed like a higher alternative to the X so I went for it.

I am fighting to local a 10 liter O2 tank during this holiday season in Florida with all the retirees back in town so the only thing I have to fall back on is my Vap treatment which I started about 4 days ago and the last 2/3 of my Trex stat dose and my Melantonin. Amazingly its been 24 hrs since my last attack so perhaps I've found the answer.

As always, I guess time will only tell. I would like to however, perhaps stock up on some seeds for the next time... what is the shelf life for them?

~ A ~

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by Redd715 on Jan 2^nd, 2006, 7:42pm

Verap usually takes a good 2 weeks to reach therapudic levels, so you may be lucky and your cycle is coming to an end already.

Title: Re: Sinus Buster
Post by ShootMePlz on Jan 3^rd, 2006, 11:58pm

on 01/02/06 at 19:42:15, Redd715 wrote:

Verap usually takes a good 2 weeks to reach therapudic levels, so you may be lucky and your cycle is coming to an end already.

ssssshhhhhh, don't jinx me (but the fingers are crossed and my faith there is a God restored..... for now)

~ A ~