Sunset, don't smoke anything period while going through a cycle.

I smoke ganj on occassion myself, but only during remission.  It's not worth the trigger.  Drink plenty of water and try some of numerous abortive techniques discussed on this forum, especially O2.

If you want prevention and if you smoke the fine green, look into shrooms or check this site out Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or ; It actually can abort and entire cycle for some.

Wishing you PF days

I had the same problem you're having with oxygen, it would stop the CH in less then 10 minutes. Within 20 minutes of shutting down the 02, it's back. For the last several years, I've been combining cafergot with my oxygen. Cafergot is an old school CH med, taken in pill form. I think the combo is caffeine and ergotamine (sp?) but not entirely sure. The 02 would punch the ch down, the cafergot bought me up to 12 hours pain free time.

Several people on the board have posted the same results combining coffee or an energy drink with their oxygen. They got the same results, oxygen would shut down the CH, energy drinks bought them several hours pain free time, I intend to try that next cycle.

Marijuana is a vasodiolator, for CH'ers, that's bad. I'm thinking you'll wanna stash the stash till the cycle is over!

Guiseppi

before ch was mentioned to me, i thought smokin weed would help.  should of seen me...funny now i think of it.  i was puffin so hard , my poor father was beside himself, but whatever he could do to help, he let it slide.  I didn't vomit though, which usually happens to me, and it didn't help. never tried it again...to abort a headache 

angela

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Yep, is for me too.  But it's rather harmless when I'm not in cycle.  Aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddd just like everything else, it effects different people differently.  Use with caution.

Huge trigger.  While it may help for migraines, it did not help me during a ch.  I thought my eye was gonna burst out of my head.  I can't even be around cigarette smoke during a ch.

your english is better than my italian.

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I've stopped being a user of marijuana for about 10 years now.  I noticed during a 13 month stay in The Netherlands that Marijuana and Hashish was a somewhat weak trigger for my cluster headaches.

That was rather infuriating, as in The Netherlands the stuff is readily available and decriminalized!  It was fun walking around with a brain that was turned into "nutty putty", but not when a CH attack followed in 30-60 minutes.   

Of course, YMMV (Your Milage May Vary)....

Wishing you well,

Ray

Well I must say you guys are (after the O2) are wonderful and great to know there is all this support out there.

On the positive side - having been hit by the beast for the first time this year I have learned to fight back in various ways
Taurine and B6 three times a day seems to keep things in to a minimal ( painlevel 5 maybe) and I always have one of those 5 hour energy drinks nearby which kept the beast down the other day when I was on the golf course.
Vigorous exercise helps too.
No alchohol and No weed until this is all over

meanwhile I saw a head doctor the other day - got in to see him quickly because he is a teaching doctor and CH is interesting enough that he wanted to use me as a example for a student in his office.

so this head ache doctor is spending time teaching people about CH and how to recognize it because all to often it goes undiagnosed - all good stuff

he prescribed "verapamil" as a 'preventative'  and I've been on it for two days only - the first night I had three mild attachs but since then nothing  --- I've got to watch my blood pressure, it's not recommended for anyone with heart problems - I'll let everyone know how it works.

Anyways thank you all for being there - if anyone in the Toronto area wants to know this doctors name  its - Dr. Jonathan Gladstone - he has clinics in Toronto and CLeveland and really seems to know what he is talking about - doesn't have a great opinion about the internet, blogs or naturalist remedies - - believes in the proven clinical stuff but he was quite pleasant and we will see if his solution works.

Sunset

This Thanksgiving will be 3 years quit smoking weed and I never thought pot was a trigger but if I even had a twing of a CH coming on and I smoked I was guaranteed a kip 10 as you can guess as soon as I put 2 and 2 togather I never did that again. I have to say I don't miss smoking that shit at all.




Dave

I have found my two triggers. One more so than the other. That is wedd and booze... both things unfortunately I do enjoy on occasion.

Thankfully I do carry an O2 bottle with me (perks of being in EMS I guess). Therefore I can bust them quick as soon as I start to feel the twinge of pain.

I have found however, if I do one or the other completely alone. IE: If I smoke but not drink, my chances are higher that I won't be attacked in my daze. Same with drinking without smoking.

I have also noticed when I do either, or both I tend to smoke cigarettes like they made them illegal too, yet if I limit my cig smoking the chances are a slight bit higher that I won't be attacked.

I am episodic and haven't really found a cycle or pattern to my attacks yet, just little triggers.

Like said above, stay on the O2 10 or minutes even after the pain leaves. It's a big help, I haven't relapsed but once after the O2 treatment and that was an odd day where I had 4 attacks in 12 hours... very, very, very rare I get more than 1 a day even without O2.

Short answer, yea weeds a trigger my friend, limit yourself, stop smoking, or battle the beast is really the only options. I know myself I have cut back so much that it's now once a week at most I'll indulge in smoke or drink, I hate fighting the beast without whacking him on the head with my O2 bottle.

-Jeremy