Hi Helen

I am doing really well, longest headache free period ever (since age 14) so definitely something I feel good about.  Been taking magnesium, Vitamin D, C, E and melatonin (6 mg)--so don't know if that is what is doing it or if I am just aging out of them lol!  Anyway, knock on wood they will stay away.  Hope you are doing well!

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Actually, I've changed my stance on this.  If they're older, have a mustache and/or beard and a slight balding spot, they may get them.  It's that testosterone thing.

Read this post and had to respond! I am a female who is having some big problems getting a diagnosis of CH just because I'm female. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "You don't have cluster headaches because you aren't the typical CH sufferer." And I have also been told that I'm having clusters of migraines and not CH's!!! It is extremely frustrating because I fit the cluster quiz PERFECTLY! Even the neurologist told me he "doesn't want to jump to the diagnosis of CH when what I’m suffering from is probably just a different type of migraines then what I've had in the past." What's up with Doctors refusing to label something as a cluster headache? Regardless if ALL symptoms point that way? It's not that I'm hell bent on being diagnosed a clusterhead but I feel like I won't ever get the proper treatment without the correct diagnosis! I agree it’s very aggravating. 

Joni wrote on Nov 19^th, 2009 at 2:34am:


Beyond this scope, had read of a survivor of Auschwitz, a death march to Dachau, then five months hospitalization.  He visits an aunt after the war who went on about wartime, "My dear Charles, if you only knew how hungry we were here!"  Hearing that, his efforts to talk about it ended.  Some met disbelief.

We're not the first, worst off, or last with transmitting endured.  Others struggle, seems sometimes if you want to hear a mind's grasp of comparable or outstepped, maybe disregard, just bring up yours.


Thanks, Deej.