Hello,

I find that, shortly before I go through a cluster cycle, I start really craving salt.  I was just curious if this is a normal thing, if it's something that, as usual, happens in a few cases and not in others, or if it's just that I have a taste for salt.  I mean, I can go for a while without really noticing, and then, out of the blue, like clockwork, I crave it like crazy.

I have noticed that during a cycle, I need more salt to taste it. I take Lithium and we actually need more salt when taking it. Not before a cycle that I've noticed.

Since Cluster Attacks can affect the Ganglion Nerve, it is possible that this could affect your taste buds! 

Here's the "scientific" definition: The facial nerve is the seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves. It emerges from the brainstem between the pons and the medulla, and controls the muscles of facial expression, and taste to the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. It also supplies preganglionic parasympathetic fibers to several head and neck ganglia.

I know I get a small painful knot on my neck which the doctor said was caused by the Ganglion Nerve.  I know that I CRAVE salt, but can't partake because of other medical condition.

monty wrote on Jun 24^th, 2008 at 2:02pm:


So could it be that, during the periods of attack, the change that clusters cause block the pathways of transport for these ions.

Hmmmm that may be why Saul went and bought Sea salth for cooking the other day. We've never used it before but he said he really wanted it LOL!