Hey Geordie Lass,

Try neutral mineral spirits or silicone spray as a stand-in for furniture polish...  a little goes a long way.

Regarding your son's cluster headaches...  have him see his PCP for a 25(OH)D lab test.  This is the serum level metabolite of vitamin D3 that's used to measure its status.  The normal reference range for 25(OH)D is 30 to 100 ng/mL.  Unfortunately, too many physicians will say the results of this lab test are normal at a serum concentration of 31 ng/mL...  While that may be a high enough 25(OH)D serum concentration to prevent rickets and osteomalacia... it's far too low to prevent CH

The odds are your son is vitamin D3 deficient and that deficiency is contributing to the frequency, severity and duration of his cluster headaches.

We've more than sufficient data confirming a causal relationship between a vitamin D3 deficiency and cluster headache.  240 out of the 300 CH'ers (80%) who started the anti-inflammatory regimen with 10,000 IU/day vitamin D3 experienced a significant reduction in the frequency, severity and duration of their cluster headaches. Most of them experienced a pain free response.

Moreover, lab tests for 25(OH)D reported by CH'ers experiencing a favorable response have all fallen in a range of 60 to 110 ng/mL.

If you're interested in this non-prescription solution to preventing your son's cluster headaches, please see the following link and discuss it with your son's neurologist or PCP.

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If you want to see what other CH'ers are saying about their experience with the anti-inflammatory regimen, click on the following link:

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Take care and please keep us posted.

V/R, Batch