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http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Cluster Headache Help and Support >> Medications, Treatments, Therapies >> CH and SAD http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1259528822 Message started by D3 on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 4:07pm

Title: CH and SAD
Post by D3 on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 4:07pm

Hi

I have heard that many CH suffers also have SAD. Is it true?

D3

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by Marc on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 4:22pm

Can't speak for "many other" CH sufferers, but for me: Nope

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by Brew on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 5:01pm

For those who weren't able to decipher, SAD means Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Not me, per se, but it sure does suck when it's dark going to work and dark coming home.

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by Joni on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 5:32pm

Nope, but I do love the sun!

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by FramCire on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 6:04pm

It wouldn't be shocking since many of us have cycles based on or timed by seasonal changes, plus many suffer from forms of depression as well.

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by Bob_Johnson on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 7:13pm

Whenever you hear about such a linking of two conditions the issue is always the same: One doesn't cause the other--unless there has been some research to show a functional relationship.

Depression is commonly associated with many kinds of disorders, especially chronic ones, but it doesn't mean that one caused the other.

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by Joni on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 7:40pm

Bob Johnson wrote on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 7:13pm:

Absolutely. Especially when one is common and the other is rare.

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by bejeeber on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 8:09pm

I lived in cloudy Seattle for 10 years after growing up in Southern California.

Still, I was the lucky type that didn't experience any SAD.

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by jon019 on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 8:44pm

Hi,

Can't answer the question...but I do live in Seattle...before that an area in Alaska that could be described as a "rainy" Seattle. My brother couldn't stand "the skinny gray rain" and moved to CA. While I could be called sad...I aint SAD...rain don't bother me...ch does...

Best,

Jon

Title: Re: CH and SAD
Post by cherylc on Nov 29^th, 2009 at 10:14pm

I think that clusters "triggers" and treatments vary so much from one sufferer to the next...it would be difficult to say that most of us also suffer from SAD. BUt, SAD does involve the body's internal clock and hormone production, and melatonin, all the same things affected with clusters.

I'll try a light box if it helps!!
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