We know only too well what you mean, mate, from the inside. Have you looked at trying Oxygen? A lot of people get a lot of relief from it.

Welcome home,

Brian.

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Wondering if either you (or sleepytime) have wives or partners with whom you share the beast?  If so, please send them here for support.  We're not only a community of clusterheads, but include those who love them as well.

Best of luck in your journey with the beast.

Hi Dusty

  Very glad you found us . . . you are no loner alone with the beast.

  One of my favorite motto's on this board is, "Nothing works for everyone, but SOMETHING works for everyone" . . . . and here you have a very good chance of finding the "something" that works for you.

  I used to use heat as well . . . either hot shower on the affected side (I'm also right-side), or totally submerging myself in very hot water.  Now, I use ice packs with the 02 if the 02 doesn't have immediate effect.  When I first started to use ice, I would get an additional shot of pain if I held it in the same place too long.  Now, I move it around .  .  . eye, side of face, upper/lower sinuses . . . usually shortens the abort time.

  And YES . . . I'm another 02 pusher . . . you're going to meet a lot here . . . because it works (for most of us).

  Read, read, read . . . post often and ask any questions you might have.  The answers you will get here come from people who truly know your pain.

  I no longer fear the beast at the level I once did . . . because I now have some control over him, when before (I came here),  I was constantly in very real fear of "the next one" (How soon, how bad, how long will it be?)

  Be Safe,    PFDANs

     Richard

One thing you need to understand about 'History" is that there were many misconseptions about Ch/Horners/ Horners Neuralgia/  for a very long time. 

Most data will say that CH is primarily a Male disorder.  4/6-to-1 male to female ratio.

Trust us female sufferers that this has led to many mis-diagnosis for far too long.

I know from family accounts of my Grandmother's and Great grandmothers symptoms that they both were most likely Ch sufferers.

My Great Grandmother was said to have "hysterical headaches".  My Grandmother was determined to have "Sick headaches".

Each of my aunts and uncles (that haven't passed on now, and  before they did) have related to me the charactoristics of the ways my fore-Mothers suffered. 

The most telling of the episodes was, (and I've mentioned this before in old posts)  was that my farming great grandmother in the cheese making industry, one day was so fed up with the pain that she took the bottle of mercury they used to put down lame cows in the herd and was pouring herself a spoon full. 

Mom said she and Janet, her sister, caught her and stopped it. (this was a time when extened family still lived under the same roof, depression era).

Mom also told me of the months long boughts with headaches her mother would get. My grandmother.   Mom was the ypoungest in the family and was the one to be held home to bake the bread and do the housework while Grandma had her "sick" headaches.  Mom said she never was "sick" as in nausia or vomiting, but aggitated and paced about for hours and then slept and repeat.  Doctors orders were to lay still, but Grandma couldn't.  She needed to pace about.

By that time lame cows were euthanised by the vet, not by the owners, so the mercury wansn't handy.  I wonder what Grandma would have done.

Mom was spared the family curse.  I happen to be one who wasn't spared.

That is this family history as I can know it.