I reckon I have done, old mate, and my cycles are now so short and easy I should really think about deleting my profile here at ch.com.

Mind you, even if we're completely wrong about growing out of it, it's such a beautiful thought and dream that gives us hope.

Let's all hope together.

AussieBrian wrote on Jan 17^th, 2015 at 10:45pm:


There...fixed it for ya....you can check out...but ya can never leave...this is FAMILY!

Me too. You must never leave us Brian.

I grew into mine. Didn't start till I was 57.

Had my last cycle at age 54, 10 years ago.  It was my longest cycle at 5 months, 3 to 8 attacks/day.  Went out with great fanfare!!!!

Not taking any medication.  I started ch at age 20.  Would get a cycle every 8-9 months, last 4-6 weeks with 2-3 attacks/day.  At age 40 the remission periods started to get longer but so did the cycle when they came.  At age 54, after a 2 1/2 year remission, that long cycle hit and that was the end of them.  I'm confident I'll never have another.

I hope one can grow out of them.  I am 46 and have been episodic since 21 but generally speaking with time the remissions get longer and the pain/frequency less severe (though the cycles themselves lasting longer).  I've just had a 3.5 year remission, a record for me.  But the beast is back a-knocking.

I like what AussieBrian said.  A nice thought.  Personally I feel that the flavour of the condition is changing over time with me, and the edge is coming off a bit.  Whether this is the improved treatment, management or psychological or something else, who knows.  It wouldnt totally shock me if they just stopped completely, but I've never seriously entertained the thought (good thing too as I'd be quite disappointed right now...)

I'm hoping that I have outgrown them.  They started at age 16; and like Bob, I got longer cluster cycles and remission periods during my 40s.  Also like Bob, I quit drinking alcohol entirely, at age 44.

Last attack in 2009.  I'm 54 now, and take no preventives.  Haven't thrown away the triptans, and still have 20 cylinders of O2 standing by, just in case.

Dennis

I sure hope to grow out of them some day.  I'm 54 and started getting cycles at 24, so 3 decades of them 

I can say that the severity has diminished in the last 10 years, and the remissions are longer.  I just came back into cycle, it's been2 years I think, and so far nothing over a 5.  And that is a whole lot better than it used to be.  And alcohol doesn't seem to be the automatic trigger it usually is...

Good luck!

It is a known phenomenon that some CHers go into complete remission when they get older.

As for me - I'm 43 now, living with the beast since I was 11, during which I was chronic, episodic and also had periods of years in which I had few attacks or none. In the past decade my remissions suddenly became shorter and my cycles got longer 2-3 weeks, than 4-5 and my last cycle (9/2014) was 9 weeks long.

Completely stopped drinking alcohol in 2010. Hardly made a noticeable change.

On the other hand, my headaches and cycles are more manageable now. After mastering my triggers and the use of triptans, O2, energy drinks etc. and with a little help from the D3 Regimen, even my 9-week cycle was relatively easy to survive.

I do believe complete remission is possible, though.

I sure hope to out grow these attacks. After 40 years of episodic and chronic I'm getting darn sick of them.


Hey Batch, how'd you get a picture of my first wife?

I'm a doctor new to web site and I think you all are nuts until my six weeks of hell begins each year. I think of the verse "If your eye offends thee, pluck it out." I'm down with that. As a surgeon, I think I can maybe pull it off at home. I wonder if anyone at work would notice the next morning.
Thanks and I look forward to battling the demon with you.