Cross your fingers Lib!!!!!

Joe

Marc wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 1:29pm:

marc i wish my hits followed some kind of schedule. i wish i could sleep when im in cycle even if it were an hour or 2.

JustNotRight wrote on Aug 5^th, 2010 at 5:43am:


Does that mean you are in that cluster fog all the time with the swollen feeling, too?

Boy Oracle that describes my first 15 or so years. 2 hits a day, 2 cycles a year, I swear you could set the atomic clock by them! Hit my 40's bout 10 years ago and they've been all over the board ever since!

Joe

Guiseppi wrote on Aug 5^th, 2010 at 3:51pm:


Mine seem to arrive at a set time to the minute for 2-3 weeks, then they have changed to a new time about 20 minutes later for another few weeks. At the same time, with the end of winter and spring starting the days have been getting noticeably longer, so it's as if the trigger is a set time after it gets dark, with the 20 minute jump every so often to catch up with the change in daylight duration.

I wonder if there is a connection since the hypothalamus is involved with CHs and it's the centre of a lot of body clock type functions?

The Hypothalamus involvement is one of the few things most agree on Mike. HOW and WHY.....still mysteries....

Joe

Hi there.

First post for me, but I have read forum posts occasionally over the last few years - predominantly when suffering!

I am currently out of cycle, and have been so for two years now. Not suffered since moving from the UK to Australia and hoping they'll never return.

The only two triggers that I could pin down were:
- hot, stuffy air;
- alcohol.

I wanted to expand on the alcohol issue, because it could help other sufferers who avoid beer as a known trigger.

I found that I could drink almost any alcohol type without triggering a CH. However, when in cycle, just a few sips of a Wheat Beer would trigger an event.

I noticed this because I rarely drink wheat beers, but the few times I did when in cycle, they triggered without fail. Beers made entirely from malted barley were no problem.

If you regard beer as a trigger and you predominantly drink beers containing wheat, then it may be worth risking a beer containing no wheat?! Small chance that you'll be fine I'm sure, but I love beer so much and would hate to think that like-minded beer lovers may be cutting it out of their diet entirely if they didn't need to.

This may help no-one at all, but if just one sufferer is able to enjoy beer that they'd otherwise avoid, then sharing this was worth while!

Cheers,
Dan.

Welcome to the board Dan! When you get a chance, start a new thread intro'ing yourself on the getting to know you board. Give everyone a chance to give you a proper hello.

Joe