Jerry - I've heard stories of MS patients that take 100,000 i.u.'s per day for three months at a time. I don't think you're even CLOSE to toxic levels.

Hello everyone, my name is Felipe, I'm a 22 year old student from Chile, and this is my third cycle (2008 and 2010 being the other two). I know I should introduce myself first in the other part of the forum but I thought that, as this concerns batchs formula I should merge both posts in this one.

My first cycle lasted only 2 weeks, getting hit  once a day in the morning. On my second cycle I inmediatly started taking pred taper and that took care of it, for a week... When I begun to lower the doses the beast came back with vengance, two hits a day and very nasty ones... That lasted a month ( I know this is nothing compared with what some of you guys must endure, but that one month broke me real hard emotionally...)

Last week I started a new cycle (1-2 hits per day ranging from 5 to 8 on kip scale) and came here looking for an alternative to the pred taper, as I am afraid of "the vengance".
I found this post and read the first 12 pages of it. I started following Batch's formula and test my luck:
1) first day I used 6000 UI vitD and 3000mg of O3, as I get my hits usually at 9am I waited for the next day....
2)that day i got a mild hit at 11am ( weird) and a second one, more intense and lasting an hour at 10:30pm. I started using 8000 UI that day.
3) third day only got hit once in the morning, moderated, almost an hour long, so I boosted up to 10000 UI
4) fourth day got hit twice: 10:30am and 1:30pm (really weird!) both moderated in intensity, and lasting about 40 min each. I started to lose faith in this formula for me...but mantained the dose 10000 UI and added calcium citrate (350mg) and Mg (75mg) with Zinc (20mg).
5) today, got hit twice 9:45 am and 12:00am, both very mild and responded to oxigen very well, lasting 15-20min each.

Now, this was the last day I wanted to try the formula before starting with the prednisone taper, but. I still don't know what to do. I'm afraid that I havent been taking the vitD in a correct manner ( here in Chile we only have 400UI pills, so I must take 25 pills a day to get 10000UI....thats right...25!) after each attack I feel completely tired and the only thing I can do is sleep for a while, so I have been taking the vitD pills only in the afternoon when I wake up. Maybe I should start taking them before the first hit? About 7:00am?
My neuro recommended me to start with the pred ASAP, but he hasn't read or really know anything about the vitD treatment.
I'm afraid that if I start taking prednisone today I will prolong my cycle and make it worst at the end. I know I will be PF if I start it, but maybe...and just maybe, the cycle is ending with Batch's formula and in a few day I will be PF without the prednisone.

I really need your advice in this one... Should I start with the pred and keep taking the vitD at the same time? Should I wait for it to kick in? Have I been taking the vitD in a correct way? Do you guys know if the pred taper can prolong the cycles or make them worst?

I have complete respect for you guys, this is a horrible condition and it takes a lot, and I mean A LOT to overcome the fear and anxiety it envolves. Your opinion means very much to me.
I am proud to share with you from now on in this beautiful community.

PF days to you all,

Felipe

Felipe
Same story in Norway: 400 IU D3 is max.  Make sure you take them with food, preferably some fatty food.  You should up Mg and Ca to 500mg.
Don't lose faith, be a scientist

Hey Everyone,

It's been a few weeks since I started my D3/Omega3/Calcium and unfortunately, I haven't seen the results I had hoped for just yet.  Definitely not giving up but was hoping to get some addtional advice.  I'm wondering if I need to increase the D3 dosage.  I'm 6'10" and about 240lbs so just wondering if I am above the height / weight for the 10,000IU dosage. 

I've been chronic for 11 years now and one thing I've learned is that my CH have a mind of their own.  I generally get them at the same time each day but they can change any time and shift me to a new cycle or a new level of severity.  I think I've seen a drop in the amount of pain for each headache but not in frequency.

Just to refresh what I'm taking:
10,000IU D3
1800mg Omeg-3
666 mg Calcium
266mg Magnesium
10mg zinc

Really appreciate everyone's efforts here...just need a little more help...I feel like I'm doing something wrong.

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Yes.

Back in cycle. Just completed a pred taper. While on the pred I was pretty much PF. 1st day off and I'm back in the saddle though.

I'm going to the store to grab all this stuff now and get in on the experiment.

Batch, it looks like this routine doesn't break a cycle, but just stops hits from happening while in cycle?

Has anyone tried some triggers while successfully doing this to see if the hits occur? It would be interesting to know if this suspends the cycle not just the hits, or if the cycle is continuing but the hits are just absent from the cycle.

And thank you very much, Mr. Batch sir! This is most excellent work!!!!

I have to share with you all how incredible I feel right now. I've been mis-diagnosed with migraines for the last 2 years (even after my self diagnoses a year ago, that doctors didn't believe) and thought I'd just give up and deal with these things on my own when they happen. Besides, my episodes only lasted 2 weeks every 6 months. Piece of cake! Then the beast decided to change the rules, I'm in week 6 now  So last week I got online to do more research and found.... HOME! This place is great. After reading the first couple of pages of this post I decided to purchase the ingredients of this regime and start with a ½ dose. I also made an appointment with a new doctor and continued to read everything my brain would absorb on CH.

I just got back from my new doctor's office where I gave her the exact same 'symptoms' that I gave the previous 2 doctors. She asked a couple of questions about migraine symptoms and I thought I was gonna have to break out the literature I brought. Lucky for me, she said that she would like to refer me to a neuro and that she didn't believe these were migraines. I asked her what she thought they were and she started to tell me about this very rare condition called cluster headaches! She was hesitant to diagnose this only because I am female and it's rare for women to have it. I was so excited that I found a doctor who had, at least, heard of them!!  She also wanted me to have some blood work done and told me that she was ordering a CBC. Then she asked if there was anything else and I told her to please include the 25(OH)D along with that. She smiled and said "You've done some homework."

I'll keep you posted on the results, but for now... I'm going up to full dose on the Batch Regimen! The hits lessened with the ½ dose… let’s see if I can knock ‘em out with a full dose