Has anyone ever experienced this??

It's the weirdest thing. I had started getting a headache yesterday, by the evening it was getting quite strong, it was concentrated between and behind my eyes, not like any I've had before, but felt like it was splitting my head open (I know nothing in comparison to CH, I won't even pretend it). No amount of pain killers eased it, I was up all night.  My partner hadn't been answering his phone all night, he was with his cousin, but I just knew in my heart something was wrong.

I have received a text now that he was attacked by a severe CH yesterday and taken to the emergency hospital around 6:30pm. He wouldn't let his cousin tell me yesterday as he didn't want me to worry.

I knew the beast was due as remission has been around 6 months now. I hope this bout won't last as long as the last, which was his longest yet at 4 months. This will be our first season since we've been together.

Anyway, the point of topic, I just can't help but think my weird headache last night was connected. Have any other supporters ever experienced such a thing, especially when you haven't known??

Nope...never heard of such a thing.  I have great sympathy but no sympathy headaches.

I will say that I can 'spot' one at early onset, when I'm physically in the room with Blake...can spot them in other sufferers too sometimes.  Blake says I know when one is coming before he does...not so sure about that though.

Good luck...

Hi all,
Just to let you know sympathy pains were a bit far fetched. I did some research online and found we had been hit by a severe geomagnetic storm, which for some will pass unnoticed, for others can induce headaches, and for migraine and CH suffers can induce an attack.  So it wasn't so much coincidental that our headaches occurred simultaneously as atmospheric. And it wasn't the start of his season, it was a complete one off (totally unlike CH patterns) and was extremely severe.

I'm glad I have an explanation now rather than thinking I'm mad, and I'm also glad the beast isn't back - not yet anyway.

Gives us more time to find a source for imitrex/imigran injections and find a way to import them...

Linda_Howell wrote on Feb 25^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:


Hi,

We are not living in the states... 
We're in Egypt! Here you don't get prescriptions for anything, just go to a pharmacy and buy what you need.  We have an oxygen tank beside the bed at home ready, and is easily filled on request, but our country stopped importing imigran/imitrex - and to bring it from another country needs a prescription which cannot be written from Egypt. I have found some online sites which claim to sell and export medication without prescription, but not sure on the reliability and they don't deliver to Egypt anyway - which still leaves us with who to deliver to and where, and how that person can ship it to Egypt given most companies (like FedEx & DHL) don't deal with drugs.

Jackie wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010 at 9:22am:


Believe him. I can't count how many times Stacey has said "Is the O2 out in the truck?" or "Do you have a Zomig in your pocket?" when I wasn't even thinking about it - yet. 

Obvious signs, she claims........