I was getting my E tank refill today and one of the ladys at the health center said that the 5 or so cluster people that go to that place for oxygen tend to come in around the same time.  She said she believes that whatever triggers us must be the same. I don't personally know any of the other people that go to that place for O2 but I thought it was interesting that we all start our cycle around the same time.

?????????

it's been long thought that the change of seasons, especially Spring and Fall  are the times when folks go into cycle or for those who are chronic...High cycle.  Circadiem rythum and all that.

I know that Family services gets a LOT more calls for help in the Spring and Fall and then slacks off over the winter and Summer.

The Hypothalmus is said to react to the seasons, so it;'s not so weird at all.  days getting shorter or days getting longer tend to throw it into high gear.

Linda_Howell wrote on Aug 27^th, 2010 at 6:15pm:

And I thought I was the only one who was chronic and had more intense times during spring and fall.

In the time I've been coming here I'd never before seen this mentioned! 

THANK YOU!

I've always been a Spring and Fall guy.....I think it's another reason it's so often mis diagnosed as allergies!!

Joe

It has been Fall and winter for me most often with an
occasional spring & summer here and there.  I'm always the strange one in the group.

shadows started for me as far back as late June, but when the weather broke a couple weeks ago....wham, I started getting stomped.  I almost jumped out of bedroom window last night.

My previous cycles had all begun mid-April, so I figured out I was in the clear for this year.  Surprise!  The beast found me in June.  The only thing that stays the same is change.  But a most interesting thread.

I'm a summer and winter kind of guy. Though this summer i havn't had them thank god. I know its sick but I almost wish I was in a cycle so  I had more interesting posts, and plus i feel guilty for being pain free when so many of you are chronic. I wonder if the high stress thing is keeping them away. I won't even go into that. Oh yeah and Teajay please don't jump. Tomorrow is a new day!

Spring or Autumn for me, I have had one attack during the winter and that was during my first ever skiing trip. Maybe this was down to extreme exertion, altitude and to much apres ski

As an episodic clusterhead, I know my cycles will always occur in springtime or fall.
I was expecting it this year in between halfway September and October, but somehow the Beast decided to have a go at me at around half of August, which is early for me.
I suspect it has to do with the weird summer we had here in the Netherlands - heatwave after heatwave throughout June and July, and suddenly a huge turn into autumn weather.

I am used to cycle from late September to early December normally.

Hmm...interesting.

My BF is typically a summer sufferer.  We had a pretty rainy summer where we live this year.  But he got some bad ones when we went on vacation to some hotter weather, and when we came home to similar weather, they coninued.

Maybe the heat helps to trigger them somehow.