I stumble upon the site yesterday, I’m so glad I did. 
A little background….
I was diagnosed with Cluster Headaches 5 years ago, after seeing many doctors, several trips to the ER and several pain medicines that never did work.  When my neurologist first diagnosed me I thought he was crazy and even crazier treating me with blood pressure medicine.   It turns out he was so right!

My first cycle was in spring of 2010, then my second November 2012 and now November 2015.  It comes between 11pm -2:30 am, I feel the pressure same spot all day long, more some days than others, but it does not break through until night.  Left temple, same spot, same everything.  Since the 6th of this month I have had two nights they did not break through.  This cycle seems to be more out of control, I never have them during the day but had one today (I am very worried!!).  The medicine is not working like it did in 2012.  I take Verapamil 80mg 3x a day and Sumatriptan 20mg nose spray at night after it breaks through.  With the spray they have been lasting about 20-30 mins,  but last night is was over an hour. 

I don’t have words for the pain!! It is even hard to explain the feeling when it goes away, I feel almost an instant relief, it is like a “rush” (weird) .

I don’t drink alcohol of any kind during the cycle (miss my wine), nothing carbonated, eat high protein low fat.  I was told to stop exercising (killing me, normally do yoga twice a week), but I do drink one cup of coffee in the morning.  Trying to eliminate all the triggers.. but does not seem to be working this time.

I am just looking for some help, anyway to slow these things down, stop them or just make the pain less?

Ivtobhappy wrote, I take Verapamil 80mg 3x a day

That dosage is normally to low when it comes to treating CH's! You need to be taking 360-480mg/day, but do look at the vitamin D regime on here, with the beast visiting us clusterheads in the Spring and Fall it has a good record to become pain free, myself included.

Hoppy

Thanks for the feedback…I been reading through the site and it does appear my dose is pretty low, I will start with getting that corrected.   I am not familiar with the vitamin D regime, but from what I read it is 10,000 IU/day D3, I will pick some up today on my way home. 
Thanks again, a little bit of hope goes along way when dealing with this.    I get all kinds of advice on migraines from family, they don’t understand this is different. 

Hold off on the D3 purchase until you hear from "Batch". There is other stuff that goes with the d3. You'll be hearing from him I'm sure.

helliknowpain wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 4:54pm:

Hi, and welcome.

I vote for D3 too, but it's vital that you take the co-factors that go with it, to keep you balanced, or you could do yourself harm.
Hopefully the D3, once in your system, will get you pain free as it has done for many of us.

But, for those sneaky ones that may break through, ask your neuro for the sumatriptan auto injections. Same drug as your nasal spray but 100 times better. I go from full blown 10/10 pain to completely pain free in less than10 minutes.

Keep reading here, and you'll learn all there is to know.