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http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Cluster Headache Help and Support >> Cluster Headache Specific >> What are your triggers? http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1399596289 Message started by svargas05 on May 8^th, 2014 at 8:44pm

Title: What are your triggers?
Post by svargas05 on May 8^th, 2014 at 8:44pm

Go ahead and list what triggers your headaches...so far, the only thing besides time itself that trigger mine is alcohol.

Haven't found correlation with other things.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by SmallNStout on May 9^th, 2014 at 7:02pm

apparently being a human being alive on Earth is my trigger.

Definitely alcohol (which is sad, cuz I love my wine).

ANY and ALL changes in weather (which really sucks since I live in FL and it changes every 10 minutes).

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by Dave_W on May 26^th, 2014 at 9:16am

Alcohol, chocolate, and cheesy jumbo hot dogs. Actually, any kind of aged cheese or processed meats. Ick.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by BobG on May 27^th, 2014 at 1:02pm

REM sleep. Barometric pressure below 30.00. Strong smells such as air fresheners, flavored candles, old-lady-going-to-church perfume.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by maz on May 27^th, 2014 at 5:01pm

My doctor goes away on holiday......I start a cycle.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by Guiseppi on May 27^th, 2014 at 5:09pm

maz wrote on May 27^th, 2014 at 5:01pm:

My doctor goes away on holiday......I start a cycle.

LOVE it!!

Mine are sleep deprivation, major sleep cycle disruptions, sustained stress, extreme hunger and alcohol.

JOe

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by Mike NZ on May 30^th, 2014 at 7:10am

Guiseppi wrote on May 27^th, 2014 at 5:09pm:

Mine are sleep deprivation, major sleep cycle disruptions, sustained stress, extreme hunger and alcohol.

Very similar to mine although it is a reduction in stress for me (vacations / weekends) but no problems with alcohol (I'm one of the lucky ones).

It is interesting that my migraine triggers are very similar to my CH ones other than the addition of caffeine and chocolate as triggers.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by Hoppy on May 30^th, 2014 at 3:49pm

All processed foods that contain nitrates.
Chocolate.
Cheese.
Pizza.
Alcohol.
But, only when I'm in a cycle.

Hoppy.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by renana on Jun 13^th, 2014 at 11:22am

It's such an important topic.

Though thinking about it - I'm not sure there is a (specific) trigger, or maybe everything is a trigger when in cycle.
I tried finding out about it so I'll know what to avoid, at some point I've come to think everything that made other people feel good (smoking, drinking, eating delicious foods) would be a trigger for me.
I got over that, because it was too depressing :(

The one thing I do avoid is stressful situations as much as I can. I don't have a medical proof for that but I tend to start my cycles when I'm most needed at work or school or home.
And when a cycle starts - I give up physical exercising.
(and Alcohol - that goes without saying)

Nana

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by TalD on Jun 29^th, 2014 at 9:26pm

Those are mine, ordered in the rate of how much do they affect me:
Alcohol
Lack of sleep
Hunger (I guess it is the lack of sugar in my blood)
Strong light
Thirst
Aromatic smells, like fuel smell

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by bluesunshine on Jul 2^nd, 2014 at 11:30pm

During cycle, beer and alcohol are definitely triggers.

My last cycle started after a night of too much beer and Jagermeister. Can jagermeister be a trigger of a cycle? No I will not drink that again to find out, I will never touch Jagermeister again.

blue

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by AussieBrian on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 7:03am

Thirty five years searching and I've yet to find a trigger.

I truly wish I could, so long as it's not beer.

Title: Re: What are your triggers?
Post by Sconley50 on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 9:25pm

Triggers? As far as I can find, there are no triggers. My son has kept track, and we have no idea what causes them to start or what causes them to stop. He has had the headaches for as long as 2 years (with one 6-week break). He has separated from his wife and has now had a few days in the past 2 months with no headaches.