Click this link to read a post I like on the clusterheadaches.com message board...

May 17^th, 2025 at 3:39pm

	Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register
	Search box updated Dec 3, 2011... Search ch.com with Google!

New CH.com Forum › Cluster Headache Help and Support › Getting to Know Ya › New but not new

(Moderators: Mrs Deej, DJ)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

New but not new (Read 1277 times)

Jrcox

CH.com Veteran

Offline

I Love CH.com!

Posts: 123
FARMINGTON, MN
Gender: male

New but not new
Mar 12^th, 2009 at 8:15pm

I have been a sufferer for going on 12 years now. I have know of this and usually visit it now and again. It seems like when ever my cycle starts I get all my meds and tanks together. Visit my doctor. Do research online the whole 9 yards. Then finally my cycle ends and I just stop. Not sure why. The 6 to 8 weeks my cycle last wears me out and it's like I want to forget about it and move on for the next year. Then I scramble to get everyhing in place as soon as they start again. Now that I am going through a divorce. I am actually going to have to deal with this alone. For the first time in 8 years. Very scared.

IP Logged

Click Here to visit the CH.com Facebook page!

B.Baer

CH.com Veteran

Offline

I Love CH.com!

Posts: 154
Northeast Pennsylvania
Gender: male

Re: New but not new
Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2009 at 8:49pm

I certainly can relate, I went in cycle for the first time about 15 years ago, while going through a divorce. I was already alone and then hit with these cursed things. I was probably as down as I have ever been in my life.

6 years ago, I meet the woman I am married to now. She is the one who found this site and made me aware of all it had to offer. I have made great strides in learning to deal with our medical rarity. She has comforted me and supported me, and believe me, as you know, we can be a handful when in cycle. She dealt with me pushing her away and not letting her near me, but through it all she helped. She researched and joined this site a number of years ago.

I just joined this site during this cycle. I, like you, would research read and then not come back till next cycle. I aim to remedy that this time.

The point is, it will turn around for you, if I've learned one thing, it's that the people who have these are some of the strongest people on earth. You have to be to cope with it.

You're never really alone, just look around this site, we all share a common bond. You'll find caring and compassionate sufferers and supporters. We are only a keyboard away, and I can attest to the fact sometimes a phone call away. It will get better and it starts now.

I know it'll be a rough ride for a while, these damn things are hard enough without the additional stress of divorce. You'll come out the other side, a wiser and stornger person. I know I did.

Best of luck and feel free to PM me if you need to.

Baer

IP Logged

Iddy CH.com Alumnus Offline Smile Posts: 486 Toronto,Canada Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2009 at 10:48pm That's the wonderful thing about this site. I think it is only natural to want to forget and put behind you the pain of your cycle. The support is always here,all you have to do is crank up the keyboard. Wishing you all the best and PFD. Iddy
Back to top	Walk in Peace "If you can, help others, if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." Dalai Lama IP Logged

Mrs Deej YaBB Administrator Offline My life is what I make it, and it's beautiful! Posts: 1348 Tornado Alley Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #3 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 2:27am Jrcox wrote on Mar 12^th, 2009 at 8:15pm: I am actually going to have to deal with this alone. For the first time in 8 years. Very scared. But you're not actually gonna have to go through this alone...you have all of us.
Back to top	"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby IP Logged

Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #4 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 2:36am Stef's right. Sorry about the big D, that sucks. But you don't need to be alone with this. I used to hide from the board off cycle, afraid even thnking of it...much less POSTING about it would start a new cycle. Jump on in and allow us to lend you a hand. joe
Back to top	"Somebody had to say it" is usually a piss poor excuse to be mean. IP Logged

DennisM1045 CH.com Alumnus Offline One wave at a time! Posts: 3437 Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #5 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 8:39am I'll add my welcome to the list. You'll never be alone around here It sounds like you have a good plan in place for dealing with the beast. Just let us know if we can help in some way. -Dennis-
Back to top	Where there is life, there is hope. Where there is Oxygen, you must use proper caution. So be safe, don't smoke while using O2. Kill the pain and not yourself. IP Logged

George

CH.com Moderator
CH.com Alumnus

Offline

Black-Billed Magpie

Posts: 8126
Boise, Idaho USA
Gender: male

Re: New but not new
Reply #6 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 9:44am

Welcome.

I used to come to CH.com when I was in cycle (mostly lurking) and stayed away when I was out. Did that for about six years. I think a lot of episodics do that.

Sorry you're going through a divorce at the same time you're in active cycle. It's like a perfect storm of suck.

Come see us often--as Steph said, you won't have to go through this alone.

All the best,

George

"Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound." (Thomas More, author of "Utopia", and Chancellor of England. 1477-1535)

IP Logged

midwestbeth CH.com Sponsor Offline Posts: 1123 Edwardsville, IL Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #7 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 9:49am Hi and welcome! Sorry to hear you are going through a tough time right now. Hope the beast leaves you soon, but know that you will never be alone as long as this site exists. Beth
Back to top	Dum vita est spes est IP Logged

Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: New but not new Reply #8 - Mar 13^th, 2009 at 10:11am Hi! I too am sorry that you are having a rough time. You aren't alone though! Stick around .... we grow on ya! Jeannie
Back to top	« Last Edit: Mar 13^th, 2009 at 10:11am by Jeannie » "It's all a grand illusion when you think you're in control." ~ Kenny Chesney IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page

©1998-2013 Web Vision Enterprises LLC All rights reserved. All information on this site is protected by international
copyright laws. You may not re-distribute any information from this site without written permission from
Web Vision Enterprises LLC and the webmaster of this site. Violators will be prosecuted.
You may view our privacy policy and financial disclosure statement here

DISCLAIMER: All information contained on this web site is for informational purposes only. It is in no way intended to be used as a replacement for professional medical treatment. clusterheadaches.com makes no claims as to the scientific/clinical validity of the information on this site OR to that of the information linked to from this site. All information taken from the internet should be discussed with a medical professional!