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dinopeep1 CH.com Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 4 x0\|Santa Barbara\|USA\|\|0\|0\|CA,California	Cluster headaches and weightlifting Dec 18^th, 2009 at 12:22am The past two days I've gotten excruciating headaches, I'd say 9's on the kip scale, about a half hour after intense weightlifting. Is this a coincidence or is there a correlation between weightlifting and an attack?
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Re: Cluster headaches and weightlifting
Reply #1 - Dec 18^th, 2009 at 8:19am

No, we regularly have this question during the warmer times of year but, I suspect, this applies to any vigorous exercise which elevates body temp.
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Lancet. 1999 Sep 18;354(9183):1001-2.
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Lancet. 2000 Jan 8;355(9198):147.

A new cluster headache precipitant: increased body heat.

Blau JN, Engel HO.

Exercise, a hot bath, or elevated environmental temperature provoked cluster headaches, within 1 h, in 75 out of 200 patients. This new observation accords with recognised precipitants--alcohol, histamine, and gyceryl trinitrate--perhaps via generalised vasodilatation or hypothalamic activation.

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monty CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 1056 The Swamp, Florida	Re: Cluster headaches and weightlifting Reply #2 - Dec 18^th, 2009 at 10:57am Also, lifting is going to temporarily elevate blood pressure in a way that heat or aerobic exercise does not. This could set off switches in vascular tissues that bring on a hit.
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Re: Cluster headaches and weightlifting
Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2010 at 10:06am

i get a lot of pain in my C1-C2 area of my neck associated with the clusters.
Whenever I tried to do any sort of weight lifting I usually aggravate my neck which in turn brings on a cluster. Very frustrating. I found swimming to be great but who the heck has access to a lap pool all the time...alternatively who wants to be swimming laps in some community center and have to go run out in -20 celsius to get some oxygen from the car.
I'm wondering what some of you have found to be the best way to stay fit without provoking pain or an attack.

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