All,

     I've seen numerous posts, etc re: melatonin.
     There is a product called "Drank" that is an "anti-energy" drink. It has melatonin and valerian (among other things) in it. I know that valerian root has been used in folk medicine to help with migraine, and from reading here for a while I see that melatonin has been mentioned numerous times. I have been drinking 2 cans per day (1 in the morning and another in the evening) for quite a while now (about 6 months or so this cycle. If I've gone chronic I guess it's not a cycle?). It's certainly no cure, but it does seem to have reduced the intensity of my attacks somewhat. The CH's are still real bad, but not quite as bad as before I started using this regimen.
       At first I started drinking it at night to help me sleep, but when this current cycle started, I went from 1 to 2 per day and as I said, it has helped take a little of the edge off the attacks. Not enough for my taste, but every little bit helps.
       Having said that, the first week or 2 I drank it (before this cycle), it just about put me to sleep about an hour afterwards. But after a while my body got used to it, and as long as I have some caffeine in the morning, I'm not sleepy at work. The one I have in the evening is along with several meds  that make me sleep through most attacks. I know I'm still getting a nightly visit because I wake up exhausted, the sheets are all over the place, and the left side of my face feels like the Devil has been using a hammer on it. So I feel like crap, but that's one less dose of 'trex I have to take. Now if the insurance folks weren't such asses about paying for the 'trex - 8 shots per month is all they will cover - I might not be taking so much other stuff. Oh well, "it is what it is" as some people say.
         Today though I had a daytime attack, so The Beast seems to to ramping up. 
        Anyway, take this for what it's worth. Maybe it will help some of you, too.
        Oh frack here he comes again! This makes going form 1/day to 3 in 24 hrs! Gotta go! #€£{}%%^_\!!!!!!!!!!!! Until next time ....

According to one of our resident newbie know-it-alls, you should be extremely sick by now, Agostino:

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...and it seems as though the US and Canada are about the only places you can get it without a prescription.

Agostino Leyre wrote on Jul 28^th, 2010 at 1:23pm:


     Agostino, I think it may be because of some bad press some years (maybe decades?) ago where people were having some bad side effects. Although now that I think of it, it may have been L-tryptophan that got the bad press. Either way, it was a nonRx thing to help people get to sleep.

Maybe it means that I lack certain social filters....

Agostino Leyre wrote on Jul 28^th, 2010 at 1:16pm:

A couple of months ago I was getting hit kinda constant after work...
430 to 6 ish.  For about 7 to 10 days I hit the melatonin at 4 to try to "break" the cycle.   dunno how effective it was, but no complaints here.  I am so random w/ these things & none of the "normal" triggers.   I also avoid caffeine..... 

Brew wrote on Jul 28^th, 2010 at 2:51pm:


hahahaha