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Something weird going on
Jun 18^th, 2015 at 12:55am

Not sure what's going on in my head! Haven't experienced anything like this before! I have this pain just above both eyebrows, not CH, no kip scale, just annoying. Over the counter meds won't shift it, I don't wear reading glasses. So, I'm wondering if it's eye strain from spending time on the computer, or something else. Thoughts.

Cheers, Hoppy.

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Mike NZ CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Oxygen rocks! D3 too! Posts: 3785 Auckland, New Zealand Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #1 - Jun 18^th, 2015 at 5:08pm It isn't something we can diagnose, so it will be the standard advice when you get a significant change to headaches which is to consult your doctor. If you think it could be eye strain, then you might want to get your eyes tested too.
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maz CH.com Hall of Famer Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 1071 Hampshire, England Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #2 - Jun 18^th, 2015 at 5:17pm Hi Hoppy, Do as Mike says, see your doctor and also get your eyes tested. Hope you're OK Hoppy. Maz.
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Reply #3 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 12:37am

Funny you should bring this up! If you can bear with me I've got a little story for you. Two years ago when my cycle started up in mid May I checked in here and learned about the D3 regimen so I jumped on board . Nothing happened at first for 2 weeks and then my ch's started changing... for the better mostly, but I also started getting nasty day long sinus type headaches, top of my forehead, all across the front, not ch style at all. Over the course of several days they dissipated.... I'd have that weird headache for a few hours every couple days and then they quit altogether along with my ch's. My brother-in-law is a chronic ch'er so I convinced him to start the D3 regimen 2 years ago also but he quit the regimen. I never did find out why till today.

      This May when the beast came home to roost I started up the regimen again with very similar results and time table. Those strange headaches came back also but not till my ch's started getting better. Had one of those weirdos for a full day and then 2 or 3 hour ones after that in the following weeks, no more than 3 or 4 of them in total. They're gone now along with my ch's.

      Now here's the funny part... Tim stopped by today to pick up some fresh strawberries my wife had picked and instead of coming in the house he took off running. (running and getting winded is a trick we both use to kill a ch) He ended up using my O2 to finish it off. I hounded him about restarting the D3 regimen and he said it made his headaches worse. Oh yeah, how so? He then described the headache that you're talking about that also appears to be the same kind I would get when the regimen starts working. BTW, he's chronic but his ch's always seem to peak when mine start up.

      With 2 cycles using D3 now under my belt, my take on this is it's a sign that the regimen is going into effect, a phase that I go through on the way to becoming PF.

      So my question for you is this... is this your typical start time of the year? If so, maybe you're having a similar response that my brother-in-law and I had and they will be as short lived as mine were. Hope so!

                  Sean

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Reply #4 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 2:14am

Hi Sean,
To answer your Questioning

! With me, the Smiley

always came through the front door at the start of Spring and the beginning of Fall, and would leave by the back door just as quick when the season changed. I've never had CH's any other times of the year. I'm upping my vitamin D-3 to 10,000iu /day, and see If that sorts it out, and who knows what tricks the Smiley

got up his sleeve seeing as we are all different.

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Sean McE CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 143 Seattle, Wa Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #5 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 2:36am Hi Hoppy, Just curious, did that weird headache last longer than a day? Still going on now? Sean
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Reply #6 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 2:37am

Hoppy,
I agree with Sean, I too have experienced similar quite often, not all the time, but when I have experienced "shadows" they come in all shapes and forms. Sometimes, just a nagging headache that wont go, can be both sides and exactly how you described, above both the eyebrows, like a pressure ! I've put them down to shadows and seem to be always right !
whether its sinus related, Hmm starting to feel there's a connection, over the last few years I've noticed I get a sort of hay fever, blocked real deep. I think there's some credence in what Batch has been advocating recently regarding hystomines and pollen etc. I mean its winter over here, but Ive still got an English garden sprouting the winter bloom, and I always come away sniffling when trimming back some of the vine type plants I have.
Just saying, not saying that that's what it is for you, but good advice was given before, along the lines of getting in and seeing your local doctor, just to be sure.
Hope it ends for you soon hoppy

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maz CH.com Hall of Famer Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 1071 Hampshire, England Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #7 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 2:38am Good morning Hoppy and Sean Just a thought - Have you had your blood tested lately. Is it remotely possible that you've taken a little too much D3 and are reaching toxic levels.
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Reply #8 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 2:43am

Morning to you too Colin
Where do you live ?
I have an almost constant headache when I'm in cycle. The CHs come and go as normal, but the background headache is ever present. It's always worse first thing in the morning when I wake up. I take normal OTC pills for it and it fades off but never completely goes, until the cycle is over.
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blacklab Ex Member	Re: Something weird going on Reply #9 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:01am Hi Maz, I'm in Melbourne Australia Maz, one of those Kiwi's that went abroad LOL I shall endeavour to work out how to put those details up next to my name. I am ( as my wife sais) a computer Neanderthal ! I try my hardest, but the abacus was as technical as I got in my schooling days regards colin
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Reply #10 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:03am

Hi Sean & Colin,
Sean, they have been going on non stop for about a week now, and nothing I do seems to make any difference, hoping, raising my D-3 intake will f**k him off, If It's he that's lurking.

Colin, you could be on the money! I too have an English garden, pollen everywhere, but It's never bothered me before.

Maz, I'm no where near toxic, my last test was 117.50 nmol/L so if anything, my levels could be far too low.

Hoppy.

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blacklab Ex Member	Re: Something weird going on Reply #11 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:09am Hi Hoppy, The one that effects me the most, is when I'm trimming the 4 different varieties of jasmine vines Hoppy, its guaranteed to get me all stuffy, even when not in flower. Maz, I've worked it out ! Just for you I've managed to work out how to put my location up in that area ! colin
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Reply #12 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:21am

   Good Morning to you maz,    I shouldn't be too high, I was at 20,000 a day through May and at 10,000 for all of June, but the real clue ( at least for me) was these strange headaches came and pretty much went during my third week on D3 (before I even had a chance to get too high). The same week that my ch's were subsiding. Since I got these weirdo headaches both cycles and at the same time my ch's were decreasing I just attributed them to a phase I was going through as my ch's went away.
      They're definitely not shadows as I know shadows. Completely wrong location. Shadows (at least for me) are where my clusters are and are like a mini cluster. These buggers are centered at the top of my forehead and they feel like a sinus headache. They were a nuisance but short lived. Hoppys comment caused me to respond since I've often wondered if others had gone through a similar experience went starting the D3 regimen.

      You're right though.. I'm about do for a test.    Sean

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Hoppy CH.com Alumnus Offline LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Posts: 1890 Perth WA Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #13 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:26am Colin, A penny just dropped, I've been blowing my nose for about three weeks now, just full of fluid, maybe a trip to the chemist is called for, to get some allergy tabs. Hoppy.
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Reply #14 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:27am

In thinking about it now, I haven't had a full on cycle for nearly 6-8 months, when a full blown cycle was on its last legs, the last few days, I would get the head ache above the eye brows ! that's how I knew my cycle was ending, everytime ! that's the first time I experienced them, so when they came when I wasn't in cycle, I put them down to shadows, the beast was trying, but couldn't break thru.
Its funny really, everyone's shadows or there experience or perception seems to be different, but I know I only get them when the beasts about ! strange

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Reply #15 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:30am

Hoppy wrote on Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:26am:

Colin,
A penny just dropped, I've been blowing my nose for about
three weeks now, just full of fluid, maybe a trip to the
chemist is called for, to get some allergy tabs.

Hoppy.

Hoppy, I just came off a bad Flu a month ago, the beast never came, but maybe try the benadrol thing that batch was advocating !
let us know how you go

colin

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Re: Something weird going on
Reply #16 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:38am

Benedryl, Hoppy, Benedryl. Accept no substitute unless it's the generic form of Benedryl. Those aren't my words , they're Batch's. BTW, I have allergies too.
I was hoping your weird headaches were short lived. If it's a sinus headache, they're no fun either and don't respond well to over the counter stuff but hot steamy showers help em drain and relieve the pressure.
Sean

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maz CH.com Hall of Famer Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 1071 Hampshire, England Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #17 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 3:51am Colin, we were in Melbourne at the beginning of December 2013. If only we'd known. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay there even though it was only for a few days. Very pretty river. Maz.
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blacklab Ex Member	Re: Something weird going on Reply #18 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 4:03am Yes Hoppy, Benadryl is available here Maz, really you were here in Melbourne ! I live only 5-6 miles from the city centre, nice and handy ! Gee, if only we knew indeed. Well, you'll just have to plan another Australian holiday Maz ! Its a big place, plenty to see colin
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Reply #19 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 4:05am

Hoppy, my wife gets bad sinus headaches and she does the Crocodile Dundee thing.....stick your head over a pan of simmering water with a towel draped over your head to trap the steam and breath through your nose.... minus the coke of course. If it is a sinus headache, Benedryl won't make it go away, getting your sinus to drain will. Benedryl will dry things up though.

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Hoppy CH.com Alumnus Offline LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Posts: 1890 Perth WA Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #20 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 4:10am Thanks Colin, Off too the Chemist right now, I don't think I could handle another night without sleep. Hoppy
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Hoppy CH.com Alumnus Offline LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Posts: 1890 Perth WA Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #21 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 4:15am Sean, at least that will be a start, so as I can take these tissues out of my nose. Hoppy
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Reply #22 - Jun 19^th, 2015 at 9:48am

yep, Benadryl.. in Texas the pollen is terrible and my head is stopped up and the old allergy headaches are abounding.. I think about half the people in Texas have sinus infections and I'm boarding on one.

Saline rinse of the sinus helps some.. and Benadryl. Not much else you can do till you get an infection then it's antibiotics (UGH!)..

Just the season.. Hope it goes away soon.. Kiss

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AussieBrian CH.com Hall of Famer Offline CH - It's all in your head! Posts: 3851 Cairns, Qld, Australia Gender:	Re: Something weird going on Reply #24 - Jun 20^th, 2015 at 10:52pm My doctor said when he gets unusual headaches he goes home and makes wild, passionate love with his wife and perhaps I should try the same thing. Didn't help my headaches but he sure has a nice house.
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