Are there are any common signs that a cycle is coming to an end? I know everybody is different and no two clusters are the same I was wondering what happens to folks as the beast decides to leave?

Haha thanks for that! Would never have known!

There seems to be no consistent answer to this.  Some episodic's cycles end abruptly, with a high-kip attack--then nothing.  Others (like me) have fewer and fewer attacks at lowered intensity until they fade completely away.

I can't say whether yours will end suddenly or will fizzle out, but from what I've seen around here, if your cycle ends one way or the other, it's a pretty good indicator that any future cycles you have will probably end the same way.

'Course, I'll say that, and someone else's experience will be entirely different.   

Best,

George 

New guy's experience: Individual attacks end differently. Some end evenly and rapidly, as if someone was turning down a volume knob on a radio. Then again, some seem to be ending, but then jump back up as loud as they were at their peak, kind of like a CD skipping. Others just... End.

When a cycle ends, it just means no more for me. There is no show stopping pain or anything. The "final" attack in any given cycle could be a real headbanger, or it could be very mild. (This is always frightening, having been a chronic sufferer most of my my life, up until a few years ago, when I started having attacks episodically, with 2-2.5 year remission periods not being uncommon. I guess I'm still not used to being episodic at this point.)

Some of it depends, I suppose, on whether one is chronic or episodic. We've acknowledged that chronics do have cycles of high and lower hits, and frequency, over a year's time. I know I do. So I kinda look at the low-no hits in one day's time as a cycle change. When I was episodic, I agree with Potter, I knew it was done when my eye stopped trying to vacate my body. Two weeks, as Joe said, is probably a good indicator. Blessings, lance

Being chronic my experiences do not apply, but over the last 12 years here I have found that MOST episodics go out with a bang.  In others words most hits ramp up in extreme intensity for a while and then just fade away.   I hope that is what is happening to you.

One week I was having attacks then the next gone . been having shadows several times a day of varying intensity since then and I'm now around the time my cycle started last year, here's hoping Ill stay with the shadows 

God bless

Nigel

I don't say they are over until it has been 2 weeks.