Post by Lobster on Nov 21st, 2011 at 11:37pm
Knocking on wood by prematurely declaring my cycle busted.
First serious cycle since 2004. All others during the interim nipped off via busting techniques.
I am a bit of a geek, so I experiment quite a bit when in cycle. Details below.
Duration: 140 days. June 29th - November 15th.
D3 Regimen & Testosterone: I started them both at about the same time. All I will say they did was tone down how quickly a hit came on. They did not break the cycle. Frequency of hits was unchanged.
Oxygen: I am one of the fucking idiots who cannot effectively use o2. I have a big bottle of welders o2, a great regulator, and as of now 4 demand valves. To sum it up, o2 will abort for me very temporarily. Within 10 minutes of ceasing o2 the hit is back. I guess o2 is only effective on the less-severe migrainey variants of CH ;D ;D ;D.
I would say I consider doing o2 to be a real pain in the ass relative to sticking a needle in my arm. Others would no doubt differ with that opinion.
o2 Concentrator: Bought myself an o2 Concentrator and an oximeter. The oximeter confirmed that when I was getting hit in the evening my blood o2 level was lower than normal... around 92-93%. My waking normal is 98%.
Slept for a few months with a nasal cannula on, taking o2 all night. This had some effect in eliminating sleeping hits. I would say it let me sleep through the night one in four times. Overall... not really worth the hassle.
Busting: Was caught with my pants down. RC was the ticket for me up until day 1 of this cycle. Now for some reason it is without effect for me. Had nothing stronger readily available.
Came across the better busting treatment. Once a week dosing mid-cycle gave moderate relief lasting no more than 36 hours.
Finally broke the cycle via 3 moderately strong back-to-back doses, once per evening. It was starting to show signs of breaking. Dosing polished it off.
Imitrex / Sumatriptan: As some of you know I used myself as a guinea pig for 'moonshine sumatriptan'. Actually it is nothing of the sort. I start with Suminat Nasal, which is really just a concentrated version of injectable sumatriptan, and cut it with saline resulting with an injectable solution. I could not have been more pleased with the results.
To be honest, the home-cut sumatriptan kept me sane this episode. I flip the fuck out when in cycle and get into medicine-hoarding mode. I get particularly packrat-ish with Imitrex vials, and go light on the doses in attempts to preserve my supply.
Well, once I got the formula just right I became rather acceptant and worry-free about my episode. I was getting hit 5x daily, but I didn't give a shit... I had unlimited damn-near-free injections available. As soon as I felt a hit coming on I immediately shot up. I kept two pre-loaded syringes on the nightstand. Most nights I was back asleep within 15 minutes.
I took to occasionally using injections as a preventative... before flying, important business events, partying... if it was 4 hours+ since my last jab, I would preemptively take another shot.
So... I took 374 injections of sumatriptan, 367 of them being my moonshine variant. All injections were to the arms. Minimum time of relief as around 4 hours at peak, 5 hours for the rest of the cycle.
Average dose was 2ml with a response time around 9 minutes +/- 2 minutes. During the peak 20% of the cycle my average dose was 2.5ml-3.0ml with times ranging from 10 to 20 minutes.
Other observations: As my cycle progressed I became really good and less stupid about noting if a hit was coming on. No idea why, but for the first month or two I must have been suffering from a combination of Alzheimer's and denial. I would feel a tightening in my neck and jaw, a tick in that spot on my head, a bit of stuffiness in that nostril... and I would think to myself 'I hope it goes away'. Well, we all know that twenty minutes later I was trying to wear a hole in the carpet with my forehead, praying for the trex to take effect. I would say it took a full six weeks for me to stop hoping it wasn't a hit and getting the needle in the arm.
Once I got aggressive about jabbing I can say my hits never got worse than a 3 before aborting, with most never making it past a gentle 2.
What I would keep my moonshine sumatriptan in if my cycle lasted a bit longer:
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First serious cycle since 2004. All others during the interim nipped off via busting techniques.
I am a bit of a geek, so I experiment quite a bit when in cycle. Details below.
Duration: 140 days. June 29th - November 15th.
D3 Regimen & Testosterone: I started them both at about the same time. All I will say they did was tone down how quickly a hit came on. They did not break the cycle. Frequency of hits was unchanged.
Oxygen: I am one of the fucking idiots who cannot effectively use o2. I have a big bottle of welders o2, a great regulator, and as of now 4 demand valves. To sum it up, o2 will abort for me very temporarily. Within 10 minutes of ceasing o2 the hit is back. I guess o2 is only effective on the less-severe migrainey variants of CH ;D ;D ;D.
I would say I consider doing o2 to be a real pain in the ass relative to sticking a needle in my arm. Others would no doubt differ with that opinion.
o2 Concentrator: Bought myself an o2 Concentrator and an oximeter. The oximeter confirmed that when I was getting hit in the evening my blood o2 level was lower than normal... around 92-93%. My waking normal is 98%.
Slept for a few months with a nasal cannula on, taking o2 all night. This had some effect in eliminating sleeping hits. I would say it let me sleep through the night one in four times. Overall... not really worth the hassle.
Busting: Was caught with my pants down. RC was the ticket for me up until day 1 of this cycle. Now for some reason it is without effect for me. Had nothing stronger readily available.
Came across the better busting treatment. Once a week dosing mid-cycle gave moderate relief lasting no more than 36 hours.
Finally broke the cycle via 3 moderately strong back-to-back doses, once per evening. It was starting to show signs of breaking. Dosing polished it off.
Imitrex / Sumatriptan: As some of you know I used myself as a guinea pig for 'moonshine sumatriptan'. Actually it is nothing of the sort. I start with Suminat Nasal, which is really just a concentrated version of injectable sumatriptan, and cut it with saline resulting with an injectable solution. I could not have been more pleased with the results.
To be honest, the home-cut sumatriptan kept me sane this episode. I flip the fuck out when in cycle and get into medicine-hoarding mode. I get particularly packrat-ish with Imitrex vials, and go light on the doses in attempts to preserve my supply.
Well, once I got the formula just right I became rather acceptant and worry-free about my episode. I was getting hit 5x daily, but I didn't give a shit... I had unlimited damn-near-free injections available. As soon as I felt a hit coming on I immediately shot up. I kept two pre-loaded syringes on the nightstand. Most nights I was back asleep within 15 minutes.
I took to occasionally using injections as a preventative... before flying, important business events, partying... if it was 4 hours+ since my last jab, I would preemptively take another shot.
So... I took 374 injections of sumatriptan, 367 of them being my moonshine variant. All injections were to the arms. Minimum time of relief as around 4 hours at peak, 5 hours for the rest of the cycle.
Average dose was 2ml with a response time around 9 minutes +/- 2 minutes. During the peak 20% of the cycle my average dose was 2.5ml-3.0ml with times ranging from 10 to 20 minutes.
Other observations: As my cycle progressed I became really good and less stupid about noting if a hit was coming on. No idea why, but for the first month or two I must have been suffering from a combination of Alzheimer's and denial. I would feel a tightening in my neck and jaw, a tick in that spot on my head, a bit of stuffiness in that nostril... and I would think to myself 'I hope it goes away'. Well, we all know that twenty minutes later I was trying to wear a hole in the carpet with my forehead, praying for the trex to take effect. I would say it took a full six weeks for me to stop hoping it wasn't a hit and getting the needle in the arm.
Once I got aggressive about jabbing I can say my hits never got worse than a 3 before aborting, with most never making it past a gentle 2.
What I would keep my moonshine sumatriptan in if my cycle lasted a bit longer:
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