My name is Miranda and I live in Phoenix, AZ.  My first cycle started as far back as 21 years ago, when I was 13.  I wasn't diagnosed until around 2009.  Basically, I have episodes every 2 yearsish, though in recent years, it's been closer to 3.  They last about 6-8 weeks, typically lighter and lesser hits in the beginning, peak in the middle of the cycle and decrease towards the end.  Many of my cycles have been triggered by a postpartum period-had cycles within two weeks of giving birth to 3 of my four children.  Never had them while pregnant. 
This cycle has started on the tail end of a weird gastrointestinal issue that started in the beginning of November: hives, vomiting, stomach pain, etc.  Was on antibiotics, prilosec and then pantoprazole, and benadryl for a little while, wondering if all/some of this triggered my cycle.  Right now I am following a pretty low histamine diet, I'm only a week in, so it's hard to tell whether it's made a difference on the severity and frequency.
I also have a bottle of indomethacin on my counter.  While researching cluster headaches, I found another condition-episodic paroxysmal hemicrania that seems to mimic cluster headaches, but is more common in women and tend to have more day hits, than night-like I do. I guess the way they diagnose between the two is the effectiveness of indomethacin.  Would you say it's atypical to have hits in the day for the majority of this group? 
I guess I should have tried it already, but I really try to avoid all of these medications as much as possible and would like to see if mending my immune system might help.  Has anybody had any luck with managing diet, supplements, nutrition to try and tame this beast?

Looking forward to chatting with you all and thank you for your guidance and support. I've been stalking these message boards for help long before I officially joined today. 

Thank you so much Mark! I am actually on my way back from my local Sprouts, picked up all of these supplements. So excited to get this started. I actually just had some blood work done and they did test my Vitamin D levels, should I do the survey with that information or is it a different test?

I was talking about the survey on the anti-inflammatory protocol.  Where you have your Vitamin D levels tested and then try the protocol for 30 days and test them again?

Hi and welcome. It's good that you made the plunge and posted.

I bet it was tough going through CH without a diagnosis whilst trying to get through school even if it was "only" 6-8 weeks. And your experience of not having CH during pregnancy is something that quite a few mothers have reported here over the years too.

A cycle starting after a gastrointestinal issue seems to align to a few of Batch's recent posts (he is the D3 guru). Ask him all your D3 questions and you'll get great replies from him.

Indomethacin is very good for paroxysmal hemicrania but not for CH. It is often used to differentiate between the two as a response or lack of it will point to one of them. But when using it make sure you take something to protect your stomach lining as it can cause issues.

Whilst many get CH at night, quite a few get them during the day (about 95% of mine are during the day), so that won't rule out CH.

First off, let me say that you are all are the most amazing people ever.  The resources and wealth of knowledge on this page are beyond what I have seen in any health forum, ever.  Just incredible. 

Thank you Mark, Pattik, Mike and Aussie Brian-your insight and shared experiences are so helpful!

Batch-I have to do some more digging in this forum to find out how the anti-inflammatory regimen was introduced to the group, but from what I gathered you are no less than the guru on this topic.  From the bottom of my heart, thank you!!!! I started yesterday-and my hit this morning was about 10 minutes long on oxygen and it was so low level that I probably could have watched TV throughout it.  The hit this afternoon was about maybe 10 minutes and felt more like a shadow than a real headache.  I am also eating extremely clean (anti-inflammatory diet) just to really drive this home, but the difference with the supplements added from just the day before is significant.  While it's still early in the cycle (usually ramps up), they usually get worse and more frequent instead of getting better, and it seems to be doing to the opposite now!
I am so glad that you mentioned my children and husband, it's almost like you read my mind.  A huge motivation for me to figure this out from a natural perspective is so that should this god forbid-start to happen to one of my children, even when they become adults, I want to be able to help them get better.  I was just thinking that I need to figure out how I can get them going on this-so thank you for that resource-I want to do this ASAP.   

Again, thank you all so so much! This makes an incredible difference.