Hello everyone,
i haven't been here in a very long time, some jerk thought it was a dating service and had little to talk about otherwise.
I'm back and with good news! I have recently been using acupuncture to help treat my on-going battle against CHS. It has been working really well! A bit strange at first, i usually suffer from the right side and after my first three trips for acupuncture they moved to the left! Pretty wierd.
But with all hopes will continue going for the treatment. Having less and less per week now!!!
It was scarey the first day, i hate needles, but really it hurt the most when they were fineshed and were rubbing my forhead down with rubbing alcohol. besides i have been living 15 years with the excruciating pain of the CHS and nothing can really phase me.

Check it out, see if it helps for you, it's healthier than drugs and with luck it will help as much as it has for me.

Thanks for reading.
Gina

A check at PubMed showed only one abstract later than 1999--which is to say, looks like there is little interest in this area.
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The conclusions of this study are rather qualified ("iffy") notwithstanding the % reported. But like so much with CH, success is your personal proof.


Headache. 2006 Apr;46(4):632-41.
Acupuncture for chronic headaches--an epidemiological study.

Melchart D, Weidenhammer W, Streng A, Hoppe A, Pfaffenrath V, Linde K.

Department of Internal Medicine II, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Technische Universität München, Kaiserstr. 9, 80801 Munich, Germany.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing acupuncture treatment for chronic headaches under conditions of routine care provided within the framework of statutory health insurance in Germany. Furthermore, we investigated correlations between different outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with migraine, episodic or chronic tension-type headache (TTH), or several other forms of chronic headache (cluster, vascular, drug-induced headache; other specific headaches) treated with acupuncture (mean number of sessions 8.6 +/- 3.0) were included into an observational study. Detailed questionnaires including questions on headache days and instruments measuring disability (Pain Disability Index) and quality of life (SF-36) were completed before treatment, after treatment, and at 6 months after inclusion. RESULTS: A total of 2,022 patients (732 with migraine, 351 with episodic and 440 with chronic TTHs, and 499 with other diagnoses) treated by 1,418 physicians were included in the main analysis. Sociodemographic and baseline characteristics differed considerably in the four diagnostic groups. Statistically highly significant and clinically relevant improvements were seen for all clinical outcome measures in all diagnostic groups. In 52.6% of patients headache frequency decreased by at least 50% compared to baseline. The comparison of headache frequency, pain intensity, and generic outcome measures showed that some of these outcomes correlate only weakly. CONCLUSIONS: In this epidemiological study, headache patients reported clinically relevant improvements after receiving acupuncture. Randomized trials performed in parallel to this study confirm the relevant overall effect, however, the effect may largely be due to potent unspecific needling and placebo effects.

Publication Types:
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

PMID: 16643558

I tried it at the end of a cycle, not sure if it did anything.

Next cycle tried it right away, NOTHING.

I did nothing for me either.  I am very glad you are getting some relief.