Shadows can be different, and because you get a shadow, it doesn't mean you have to get a full blown CH either.

Some shadows can linger all day and you might not get a CH.

If you drink 1/2 a beer as you near your season, that may cause a hard shadow and if you stop drinking that beer, you might escape the CH.

I had a shadow last night that didn't develop into a CH, but I thought it might.

I seem to dry out when nearing the end of my season, and so no runny nostril on just the right and no weeping right eye either now.

At the beginning back in early Oct I used rolls of paper towels in a few days.

Seems to me you are typing at kip 5/6.

Are you getting familiar with the side bar menu?

I can type pretty well at up to kip 4. Much past that and my typing gets like yours, only worse since I can't type.

Read up on o2, and get it... Probably you will get most of your life back.

Hi Bob & Mac  thanks for answering...its 6.55am here & i'm up getting having my breakfast b4 i get ready 4work (i work at a GP medical practice) lol. I had 2get up last nite about 3am because the headache got worse in my eye but managed to get back 2bed & eventually drop back off 2sleep. This morning though the pain still there - like a muscle ache (as bob said above) but have the snottiness coming & going but bearable so far,will go about my day as usual & hope it taper's off.
I cant see the menu bar on the left like you mentioned? Is there a way of getting it to show on my laptop by changing the settings or something, thanks - steph 

Thanks Chad - do u mind explaining how ur shadows r 4u - ur symptoms - if u dont mind. It helps me by knowing that the symptoms i get are similar 2others and it is "the norm" i know from reading other messages on here that it does vary so much  from person to person & even then it can change.

I am just learning 2accept all of this - and gettin used 2calling it and its symptoms by other names...

I am still waiting to try o2 - its very soul rendering not 2get the help 4the pain when its bad - i have been given the  Imigran tablets to try by prof jones at my local hospital (nov 5th) and told to come back this Thursday but they dont work as i guess u wud knw.I did try my own GP but he dismissed the pain and told me i had 2wait and c the proff and let him decide wat i was 2hav next.

I have prev been a seasonal suffer but this year its been every month which has led me at long last 2a correct diagnosis - over the yrs i have seen a eye specialist/teeth took out blah blah - i say blah blah blah becuz it just goes on and on. I thought back in nov that now its been diag corr that it wudb easy frm this point 2get the correct help but wat a load of bollocks.

But i wont give up, i cant.I just want it diagnosed officially and put onto my medical records - to get some o2 2try. And fingers crossed that will help as it seems 2help so many others. I have read up on all the medications an am very wary of trying bcuz of the poss side effects - whereas the o2 does not seem 2hav any.

That 4me wud b my ideal outcome lol but i will hav 2wait and c....i will try the meds if the o2 doesnt wrk....wen i eventually get as far as that, i will hav2 wait4 "the 1's with power" prescribing the correct things that actually will help.
This thursday will tell wen i'v been 4my appointment back at hospital - god knws wat i will feel like if i still get no where.

I am lucky bcuz i do work and i enjoy a full life with my family/partner - i love sports and do yoga ect, all 2help me keep well in mind/body and spirit (though that side is strugglin abit) i always count my blessing everyday - i knw how lucky i am  - but this "thing" can bring me2 my knees, though i dont show or tell no one ....just on here i allow myself a moment of weakness, 2feel alittle sorrow 4myself LOL  LOL LOL.

24yrs its took 2ger this far and by no means thanks 2the dr's, its been many paths 2go dwn and some of them hav been wrong.

I had NEVER heard of CH till nov 5th 2009 when the proff sent home telling me i had Cluster Headaches ( i was gutted 2b told i had a headache - how can a headache b SUCH AGONY)  but as soon has i started researching it on the internet & found this forum and watched the utube videos of those brave souls who let themselves b filmed whilst havin attack - EVERYTHING jus fell in2place - i cried my eyes out..was relieved 2knw it wasnt just me, that this pain was agony, was real and that i wasnt a mardy bugr.

I go on abit dont i - sorry  its just that i dont mention it 2any1 else so i have no one 2ask becuz they dont knw- dont believe and lets be honest, most dont care!!!

I have been having shadows all day comin and going lasting for over 10/15 mins and has built up2 bout 40 mins - pain 3/4 & 4/5 - just about cope able or bearable which ever way u want 2put it - i'v got red bull in the house now - but dont really know when i should take it?? I if took it wen i'm getting lesser painful shadows - wud that stop any coming at all?

Shadows can hang around for wks - would i b living on red bull and take it at the 1st signs of anything.

Do i take it now 0n 4/5 or wait till it gets worse - do i drink it quick in one go - do i have more than 1can? Dont knw, dont knw, dont knw     

I am off 2 LA january 15th 2meet up with a penpal that i have known 4over 35yrs - i am so excited and looking 4ward 2going!!! It will b my 1st time travelling on my own. Will b staying for 16days and she is taking me to Las Vegas/Mexico/Yosemite National Park - wherever we get chance 2go in the short time i have there.

So though i knw i feel shi't now and that i prob hav started another cycle thing (the worst was oct beyond 10 that i will not think about - nov 1ended in kip 8/9) i am hoping this one (if it is 1) will be a lesser1 again (but i really dont knw wat 2expect with this "beast" as u all call it on here) i hav my fingers crossed that i will be PF whilst there.

I am going 2stock up on Melatonin whislt there as well - i buy mine frm Biova and its cost around £20 (with postage)for 240 3mg tablets & now i'v started takin 9mg every night i will soon go through them.

Hi Helen, thanks 4the info - i have taken note and will ask prof jones when i see him this thur 9am QMC hospital. He has only prescribed the imigran tabs so far and obv they have no effect at all. Prof jones is otorhinologist NOt neurologist and i am waiting to be referred. Did ask my own gp but he will not untill this dr has finished treating me.....very frustrating. I have emailed/faxed and sent by post a 4page letter going through everything and am hoping that he will have read it betime i c him fri 4my 15 min app.
Can i ask you - wud it do any good 2take Taurine 1000mg as a supplement on a reg basis like i now 9mg melatonin every night , instead of the red bull? Thanks again, steph 

I hate the shadows worse than a full blown hit most of the time. I usually get muscle ache in my neck at the base of my skull like I was head banging too hard for too long. And then when the shadow is gone, the ache takes as long as any normal muscle ache to go away.

Well, Steph first off i would go to work and play pirate and get on o2. And with that bottle, if you couldn't get straight 100% out of what ever regulator was on it, I would yank that mess off and breath right off the bottle valve.

If this happens again, turn the knob on at the bottle and turn it off a few times.. LEARN how that bottle works for flow.

When you finally get on with this progam and get out of your own way, the last bad pain you get will be kickin' yerself in the butt...

I would be willing to beat anyone who denided me o2 with a big bat.. That way I would consider the little damage i could do to still be less than equal to a hard kip 9/10.

get o2, get it now!  Ask this marine guy, about oxegen acetelene garage torches set up to gas weld and cut steel..

He has to know about the equiment. I can kill a CH if I move fast to get on it 10psi. Talking with Marc, I ramped the psi up to 45, which just flows out of the torch grip.

i wrap my hand around the cold brass, so I don't freeze to it. The tank is in a barn, and the temps here are close to 0 degrees F.

What was inside that bottle was the right stuff.. To me this is like refusing tea, because it's in a beer mug..

BTW I refuse to drink beer in a tea cup 

I am sorry you hurt.. Get o2 get o2 Get o2.