The shadows have started, so I went to my neuro this am, who is going to try me on 200 mg celebrex twice daily, as well as verapamil as a preventative. Anyone heard of using celebrex with CH's?

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I was on celebrex for years for arthritis and it never did anything for my clusters....worked good for arthritis, until it was pulled off the market here.

Some years ago his class of meds was tried with CH because of their effectiveness with migriane. But they don't work for us.

Now, if he is trying them for shadows??? New on me, but surely not for the primary attack.

Print out the first link and use it to discuss your options.

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Here is a link to read and print and take to your doctor.  It describes preventive, transitional, abortive and surgical treatments for CH. Written by one of the better headache docs in the U.S.  (2002)
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Michigan Headache & Neurological Institute for another list of treatments and other articles:

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Thanks for the info. I DO think he is thinking of it as a preventative

I had a pain management doc want to try it on me.

My pharmacist refused as I'd reacted to Vioxx and some other COX2 inhibitiors. So I have utterly no idea if it works or not.