Posted by Brian W on October 11, 1998 at 11:28:11:
In Reply to: the persistant monsters- I'm going mad posted by jeremy on October 10, 1998 at 22:39:48:
Hey Jeremy,
Our thoughts are with you in your battle with the monster. He's incidious and clever. Your reference to having the resilience of a virus brought this article to mind that is found at infotrieve.
http://www.infotrieve.com/freemedline/cgi-bin/std_format.cgi?med98-99+236103+('cluster+headache')+AND+(virus):TI
If that link doesn't work go to http://www.infotrieve.com click on free medline and do a search using 'cluster headache' in the first line and 'virus' as the second parameter. We've been following Jim Carney's reports of his clusters having their roots in a candida fungal infestation. To my knowledge there has never been proof that any outside infection could cause clusters until this article which connects them to the influenza virus.
Since i read this article the other day, there are more questions presented by this discovery than there are questions answered by it.
Here is the body of the precis of the article:
A serologically proven case of parainfluenza viral infection was associated with the onset and
disappearance of cluster headache. The patient had long-standing migraine that ceased
during the cluster headache period and recurred when the latter stopped. Possibly, the virus
was neurally transmitted to the trigeminal-autonomic system, creating an inflammatory
response that transiently precipitated cluster headache and obliterated migraine.
End of copy and paste.
This is the first evidence i've seen that any type of infection can bring about cluster symptoms.
Painfree days a'head,
Brian W