hey, i wasnt aware of that, i would of thought it relaxed the muscles in the brain, i wasnt advocating anything i even said a few of my worst attacks have come from smoking....just trying to point out it does more good than harm, random but how do substances like mushrooms and Lsd help CH's ??
caffiene? that seems odd to me as stuff like that and chocolate etc used to cause me migranes as a kid

calum wrote on Jan 18^th, 2009 at 1:01pm:


Huh?.....You still smoking?

"Muscles in the brain"?.....LMMFAO

yeah i know, i didnt really pick up on what people were saying in the first page i skimmed read it and just thought people were just attacking bud
i can obviously read its just articles tend to be an overeload of words and long paragraphs which i find myself reading over and over again and my mind constantly wanders so i dont really take it in, im sure u know what i mean
@ jenny glad to provide amusement

not really, im just very unarticulate and very bad at getting my point across, i wouldnt class bud or mushrooms as drugs anyways to be honest
im looking at the clusterbuster site, this is the only decent page i can find on it.. Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or , the rest is about Lsd and mushrooms treatment for CH

fair enough, that article i posted must be a load of turd then
smoking in generall is going to be a trigger though isnt it, setting of the sinus ?

It has no effect on me, positive or negative, in regards to CH.  Booze on the other hand, errr!  I do miss my drink when in cycle.  Aren't there a few on here  for whom booze isn't a trigger?

I have read in several med. journal articles that the official word on alcohol is that it is a dietary trigger, and that it triggers clusters 70% of the time...so there's a slight chance with every drink that it might not trigger it that time.

Potter wrote on Jan 20^th, 2009 at 11:23am:

I would have tried weed....but I'm afraid of needles

I don't care who you are...that thar is funny!

Joe

when i started my CH a few years ago almost everything wa a trigger

recently they just work more on the clock.

i have smoked pot when in a cycle...at the time it did nothing (cept make me dance around like a loon) but the next few days were quite ruff.

drinking for me before would bring on a headache within minutes.
be recently again its stopped being a trigger at all....infact if i want to get a good sleep without a headach for once i just get really drunk.

i know what most will say to this but i can assure you that it works for me.
as i said in the topic about shrooms and lsa i have no problems about taking ANYTHING to stop these headaches. but its just hard for me to get the clusterbusting stuff atm so i havnt been able to try that...yet.

there has actually been alot of posts about drinking ALOT of alcohol being able to stop a cycle of headaches for about 24 hours or so...that is why i tried it....i drank one beer and got a monster headache...but kept drinking....12 beers later had the best incycle sleep ever, woke up shit the next day but no headaches.
that is not a good option...it is not a cure...but i keep it in hand and remember EVERYTHING that gets posted...i discard nothing. anything thing that might help me is something in my CV to combat this crap.

most CH meds make me really sick in the long term...esp topamax. o2 is ok but its not mobile enough for me at all...and its only like 50-70% effective...but thats better than nothing....

so.

instead of putting people down over anything just please chill out and do your own thing.
ive been holding off of saying about the drinking thing for ages because i know i would just get flamed like hell here...this is a very friendly site at times but is is also very nasty for alot of new comers.

ive been here for 3 -4 years now and most of my support has been thru pm's
i try to avoid the forums for the most part...its just not a friendly place most of the time...i hope you guys realise that..

anyway...enough of my ramble.

let pl be.
do your own thing.
peace

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Could you please show us where you saw that one?

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Let me try to explain THAT one.

We have newbies coming here on an almost daily basis.  People who are hurting and desperate.  Instead of reading about the physical aspects of this condition and scientific information to help them...they read that drinking 12 beers and getting sloppy drunk helped or WEED helped....or a dozen other crazy things helped and so they go and try it only to suffer needlessly.

          THAT is why crack-pot theories get jumped on. !!!!!!!!

cyberone wrote on Jan 24^th, 2009 at 9:58am:

Let me be the first to fulfill your expectations. 
Drinking to excess cures clusters?  What a load of crap.

     Kinder gentler Potter

For those who dont want to read 2 pages of more weed talk, here's your synopsis:

1.  Question about weed comes up.
2.  People reply that weed is a trigger to many.
3.  Someone gets their feelings hurt that people wont justify them smoking weed.
4.  People throw out the "respect card"
5.  Someone tells a joke (I like this part)
6.  In the end, noone has any good evidence that weed is anything better for CH than a possible trigger

I can't wait for the next multi-page thread about weed where we find out the same 2 things:

Weed isn't good for CH
Weed doesn't help your brain

OK.... can we get back to wrapping our heads in bananas which I would be more likely to do when stoned!

For those newbies here, ask questions and read away.  If you have Ch or support someone who has it, there is great advise all over this place.  Weed just isn't an answer.