sorry to hear your hurtin dude, I have been a lefty for over twenty years. NEVER have been hit on the right side, EVER. I am sure someone hear can offer you a bit of knowledge on the matter. The pred. always kills my cycle. Your situation sounds a bit unique, but, as others have said before me, "the only predictable thing about CH is,,, they are UNpredictable".  Good luck.    Tuck

The "switching" sides is not common, but it's not really "unusal" either (did that make sense?). We've had a lot of posts lately of this happening.

I'm chronic and have always been a lefty, but last year during a "high cycle" mine switched over to the right side. Weird. They switched back to the left and have been on the left ever since. Guess Mr. Demon just wanted to show me what he could do - I didn't even try to figure it out.

Hope you have a long remission.

Hugs BD

Right sided 30 years, have never gone left. Like Barbara said, not common but several have posted about switching sides. I'd still mention it to your doc and have all the usual checks. I've always worried about ignoring something wrong with me cuz I tend to lump all my maladies into the "related to CH" category!

As far as your "predictable" cycles going haywire....prior to turning 40 they were setting the atomic clock by the regularity of when my cycles started and stopped. I hit 40 and they started bouncing all over the place. Nowadays I just keep 8 E-tanks in my garage year round so I'm never caught unprepared.

Guiseppi

Guiseppi wrote on Aug 13^th, 2008 at 10:47am:

As good a tip as you'll get anywhere free for nothing, but the switcheroony is common for some of us and as scarey as all get-out.

I've been right-sided, left-sided, top-and-bottom sided, side-swiped, sliced, diced and pureed. Recently beat off a major port-side torpedo-attack to find the bombers coming in on my starboard bow only the following morning!

I wore 'em down and won again but (and you wouldn't read it in Rippley's) it switcheroonied again and starts coming up through the top of my hard palate, boiling the contents of my nostril, then doing its best to remove my eyeball through my ear.

Yet I've never regarded myself as "chronic", regardless the time involved.  Every invasion is a seperate war to be fought on its own merit.

Recognise your enemy, respect your enemy, and as quickly as it changes tactics so must you.

It's in your mind to do it.

Guiseppi wrote on Aug 13^th, 2008 at 10:47am:


I could have written THAT, with just a couple minor changes. 26 yrs for me, atomic clock went kablooie around 47, I keep 4 tanks at ALL times.

Jon

I despise episodic sufferers some times because I’m jealous of what it was like to have HA PF time as a 6 year chronic, but I know that pain is pain whether you have it all the time or not.

It took some time for me to be able to sympathize with the episodic announcement of a fellow sufferers cycle starting at a bad time in their life when I am always having a hard time with the crap myself.

I’m thinking out loud again so PF to all, Rolo….

By the way, I keep 5 M and 3 E tanks in my stock and always a left sider.