Posted by Ted (205.188.197.29) on November 29, 1999 at 20:40:56:
In Reply to: Are you sure you have Cluster headaches? posted by Mike Burruss on November 28, 1999 at 18:36:25:
With the headbanging. That's pretty much just done in headaches by C-heads. I'll tell you from my 16 years of experience of suffering clusters and 1 year chronic that visualization isn't impossible and it can bring some relief. She isn't tripping. Why does the fact that you claim that all your headaches are 10s that that's so for all? Mine aren't all 10s and if I were to do the same as you I'd now question if you have CHs because you don't match my pattern. But, it doesn't work that way. We each have our own little things that makes our experiences unique from other sufferers.
Oh. And what's a joke and reflective of wishful thinking is that since you've suffered these for 14 years you think you're an old pro about these. Maybe you are for your own experiences, but what you wrote was not reflective of having done much research into them in general.
By the way, I usually don't approach people like this. But you just attacked someone with CHs for no reason other than you haven't tried or practiced this method (I'm assuming) and so it doesn't work for you. Kind of like someone who O2 doesn't work for claiming that if it does, than you don't have CHs. Frankly, I think you owe her an apology. But that's up to you.