Title: Wotcher! from the UK
Post by Simon Smith (UK) on Aug 15th, 2009 at 5:00pm
Hi All -
I've looked at this site a few tims over the years. I'm just starting a new cycle and so I'm not.....very happy.
I started CH's about 20 years ago, in my early 30's. I'm now 52. Initially they were 4'snand 5's withthe ocasional 6 or 7. They were chronic. That lasted for maybe 5 years. Then they became sort-of episodic, with 2 - 4 weeks of every now and them - but they started getting worse, with maxes of 8 or so.
Eventually they got diagnosed (no drugs helped save getting something cold and that not much) and then they've settled into a reasonably regular pattern: 5 - 6 months on, 18 - 19 months off.
I've been looking forwards to August this year for 18 months and I've not been disappointed: 7th Aug 0030 I woke up and thought 'Yep,they're back.'.
I expect that over the next 5 - 6 months they will get worseand worse and worse, and then tail off rapidly. I'm not looking forward to any of it, but I expect to survive although there will be moments when I won't want to.
I'm lucky in that 95+% of attacks ocur at night - on my time - so myjob is not threatened. I just have to get through the days when I'm
tired..
Still, the idea of the pain in the next six months is not enticing.
I should say that I find drinking White wine is as good a preventative and ameliorator as I've found: white wine is a vaso-constrictor as opposed to red which is a vaso-dilator. Seems to work for me, a bit anyway.
My sister has MS which is pretty painful, so I don't want to complain to much; I just though I'd share my dread of the next few months and cheeryou all up!
Godblessyou all!
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