Hey, all...it's been a while...my question after the 2nd line, but, please read between the lines as well

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Anyway, my question...can a trigger start a cluster?

My only real known trigger is chocolate, which I absolutely MISS, but, avoid completely.  Red wine can also be a trigger for me, but, there are plenty of drinks that aren't...

Anyway, my summer bout usually starts early July...although June 21st last year.  I had a week of anogy beore the Verapamil kicked in.

So, yesterday, a friend took me out for ice cream.  (I know I'm fine with ice cream).  I had a rasberry crunch sundae.

Raberries and a nut topping...I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I did experience a little pain...I ate a little fast, and not only have I got sensitive teeth, but, am missing a filling right at the side.

Then, I felt the beast.  Not an attack (well, maybe a kip 1 or at very most, 2), but, heavy shadows.

While it made me wince, not in any real pain, but, from where it was coming from on my head, I knew what it was.  I have grown to recognise where it attacks even in shadows and I'm sure that many of you will agree, even shadows have the unmistakable signature of the beast which distinguishes a CH or even shadows from other types of headache....

Anyway, I got home, and went to bed for a few hours...this morning, I was fine.

I thought nothing of it until about half an hour ago, when I got shadows...but, not a CH attack.

So, two questions....firstly, are rasberries at all known as a trigger?  The only ingredient I don't know I'm fine with....

Also, can a sensive pain/missing filling/cold combination trigger the beast?  (When I'm being attacked by the beast, heat helps, cold makes it worse).

My second question is....can a trigger actually trigger a cluster rather just one episode?

I'm thinkig of phoning my GP in the morning to get my ECG early.  Am I panicking?

See a dentist and have the filling restored...  You might want that tooth later in life...

Then see your doc about a lab test for 25(OH)D, the serum level metabolite of vitamin D3... 

I suspect you're borderline vitamin D3 deficient and that deficiency is likely contributing to your CH cycles... 

The normal reference range for 25(OH)D is 30 to 100 ng/mL, but we've had CH'ers with active CH test as high as 42 ng/mL.

If this lab test comes back <42 ng/mL, see the following link for the anti-inflammatory regimen with 10,000 IU/day vitamin D3:

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Take care,

V/R, Batch

When out of cycle triggers don't usually have any effect on episodic sufferers. I myself can drink and pretty much live a normal life outside the cycle, but when in cycle I have to watch out for all the things like alcohol, hunger, etc.

I'm like Japanzman, off cycle, I fear nothing! :) (Excluding my wife). I can drink, stay up late, get stressed out, nothing has ever brought on a cycle for me. I spent the first 20 or so years trying so hard to identify what was starting the damned things. They just come and go with the seasons.

Joe

Hye there, JanglyMark. You wrote:


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firstly, are rasberries at all known as a trigger?  The only ingredient I don't know I'm fine with.... Also, can a sensive pain/missing filling/cold combination trigger the beast?  (When I'm being attacked by the beast, heat helps, cold makes it worse). My second question is....can a trigger actually trigger a cluster rather just one episode?

Never heard of raspberries as a trigger, but...you also had nuts, and nuts have been known to be a trigger. As is chewing, especially something crunchy. And with a bad tooth. I don't see a mystery here. Get the tooth fixed.

Second, I think you mean can a trigger set off a cycle? Because a trigger is self-defining: it is the direct precursor for an attack. Since I'm always in cycle, I can expect my known triggers to kick off a hit. For episodics? Not sure. It's a good question, but even here, you suggest your cycle may be starting early, or earlier than it used to. I should think just setting off a single hit, if you're close to cycle or in cycle, could set off a full round. Blessings. lance