My daughter is in her cycle right now (3-4 weeks into it), and she experiencing some symptoms that I haven't heard/read about.  She's having stronger shadows than she's had in the past, and today the CH side of her face is very red and feels sunburned.  She also gets occasional "lightning-bolt" pain, lasting just a very brief time (less than a second)-- the kind of pain that I think of as being typical of trigeminal neuralgia.

She doesn't have oxygen (I know, believe me, I know!!) and she treats her CH attacks by blowing cool air from a fan onto her CH side, or using ice packs.  She says that it works really well for her . . . but I guess I'm wondering whether maybe she's somehow irritating the trigeminal nerve by doing that, and that's what her symptoms are about.

Anyone get those symptoms?  Any comments?

Thanks very much.  (I'm a long-time lurker and learner here, and I'm pretty active over at ClusterBusters, where I have also posted this question.)

Thanks, Nani. 
8345 posts!  Wow--what a generous person you are.

wimsey1 wrote on Jul 26^th, 2013 at 8:08am:
  Thank you very much, lance.  Incidentally, I made a similar anecdotal observation over at cb.com just a few days ago, based on my daughter's situation (she used to have O2) and that of some other posters there.