Posted by lc bob on March 15, 1999 at 12:57:38:
In Reply to: Marijuana and cluster headaches posted by Jeff on March 13, 1999 at 21:44:51:
Jeff,
i too am a 20-year veteran of daily cannabis use. first CH bout august 1998. i'm not an alcohol aficionado - just don't like the taste. but i'm not a fascist - i'll bend the elbow when the right situation arises. bottom line is i don't miss alcohol due to the CH trigger threat ... but i would miss Mary Jane.
that said ... i do think boo's (not booze i'm a water drinker - for the CH relief - and i've noticed that if i drink a slug of h2o with every hit, the mj-CH trigger response is suppressed. that's logical to me. it occurred to me that a perennial symptom of hemp indulgence is the well-known "cottonmouth" ... which suggests a capacity to dehydrate. ergo - since hydration suppresses my CH and pot suppresses my hydration ... i drink water when i smoke. now, i'm not proposing the use of the evil weed to ameliorate the CH (although some, like Barb D., have experienced CH relief from it) ... nor do i disagree with Linda B. - that it doesn't help CH (gawd, a triple negative!) ... i think it's like most of our sad suggestions here that work for some and not for others. yours is a timely post for me, Jeff, because just this weekend i became so angry at the 2-day-old shadow i couldn't seem to shake, that i actually "challenged" the CH ... "told" it i was going out - no matter what "it thought" ... and i went to a bar saturday and had 2 drinks (a veritable flood of liquor for me) ... and got pretty pasted (well, it was JD and pain freedom remains a human right - addictions notwithstanding
(thank goodness that here in california they only bust you for smoking something with a filter on it.
-lcbob