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What is the wildest thing you did to abort a CH
« on: Mar 13th, 2003, 12:17pm » |
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Wondering if it would be interesting to list the wildest, strangest stupidest things we've done to abort an attack of CH. Here are a couple of mine:
1. Felt one coming on while at work. Immediately got up from my desk and went outside to run until it went away (works 90% of the time for me after 10 -15 minutes of running). After about 10 seconds of running I stepped in a hole and severely sprained my ankle. I went flying and landed in a giant puddle. Not funny at the time, but it makes me laugh now.
2. Twisted and wrenched my sprained ankle hoping that my ankle pain would override my CH pain. (CH pain seemed to just laugh)
3. Brushed my teeth so harshly and for such duration that my gums were torn up bigtime and bleeding profusely.
4. Jumped off my porch and landed on my back hoping to "jar something loose"
5. Shoved a spoon down my throat to make myself yak to rid myself of any toxins in my stomach which could be causing the attack.
Needless to say,
None of these things aborted the attack.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #1 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 12:22pm » |
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...went to the ER...... 
...also the smartest: an ER doc finally diagnosed me and put me onto oxygen........ ;D
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #2 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 12:27pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2003, 12:17pm, CJohnson wrote:| 4. Jumped off my porch and landed on my back hoping to "jar something loose" |
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This must be the winner - doubt that anyone can beat this one.. I do not even come close ;D
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #3 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 12:32pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2003, 12:17pm, CJohnson wrote:| 4. Jumped off my porch and landed on my back hoping to "jar something loose" |
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Holy shit!!! 
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #4 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 2:28pm » |
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Based on the advice of doctor from long ago, I tried to effect a rapid blood pressure change by going nude into our fenced backyard at 2:00 AM in February when the wind chill was 8 degrees. While I was standing there waiting for something to happen (it didn't), I was briskly goosed by the nose of a large, hairy dog which had entered through the open front gate. Scared the devil out of both of us. He ran; I ran!
No pain for about two minutes until the abject terror wore off. Well, my wife told me not to do it in the first place.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #5 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 2:37pm » |
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Hmmm... maybe I'm just not 'wild' enough. Well, there is the 'bang head on something hard' approach. I've done it, but it's never worked. Put an ice cube on my eye.
Probably the wildest thing was stuffing red hot Cholula sauce up my nose. It didn't matter cause the CH hurt worse than the Cholula. It didn't help either.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #6 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 3:22pm » |
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I'm a boring wimp when it comes to my attacks. The only I have ever done is rock or pace. Thats it for me...
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #7 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 3:34pm » |
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A boring wimp? I would say an intelligent sensible person. None of the extreme things I 've ever done (please bear in mind I was in my very early twenties and knew very little about CH) have had any effect whatsoever. The only thing that has ever worked for me to abort an attack was to run until I was totally out of breath. It works most of the time and the subsiding of the pain seems to eerily coincide with the degree to which I have caught my breath. Once I have caught my breath and am breathing normally the pain is all but gone. Have you ever tried just taking off running as soon as you feel one coming on? Does this work for anyone else?
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #8 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 3:38pm » |
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Besides banging my head into a metal stall door in a bathroom in a Atalnta nightclub and having to be carried to my room with astonished people wondering who the
"drugged out" woman was...........???
I guess it would have to be getting hit on an plane at 35,000 feet over Texas...out of Imitrex.....going into the small bathroom,.......on my knees ,sucking air out of the AC vents in there. Oh......with people banging on the door to get in. Jeeeeez, what we won't do, huh?
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #9 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 4:09pm » |
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While driving down Interstate 75 I slamed on the breaks, skidded to a stop, got out of the van, ran around it several times looking for a cool place to press the side of my head against.  Soon a cop came along and wanted to know what the hell I was doing. I finally convinced him I was not drunk when he saw that only one eye was bloodshot. 
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 4:10pm » |
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While driving down Interstate 75 I slamed on the breaks, skidded to a stop, got out of the van, ran around it several times looking for a cool place to press the side of my head against. Soon a cop came along and wanted to know what the hell I was doing. I finally convinced him I was not drunk when he saw that only one eye was bloodshot.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #12 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 6:42pm » |
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OMG Billy!
I hate to laugh at other peoples pain but.....
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
Poor guy..... ;D ;D
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #13 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 6:43pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2003, 2:28pm, MKenney wrote:Based on the advice of doctor from long ago, I tried to effect a rapid blood pressure change by going nude into our fenced backyard at 2:00 AM in February when the wind chill was 8 degrees. While I was standing there waiting for something to happen (it didn't), I was briskly goosed by the nose of a large, hairy dog which had entered through the open front gate. Scared the devil out of both of us. He ran; I ran!
No pain for about two minutes until the abject terror wore off. Well, my wife told me not to do it in the first place. |
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LMAO!!! That is funny!
as for me...I've never done anything wild to make my head stop hurting. Cry out loud sometimes...if no one is around.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #14 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 7:03pm » |
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i pace in a locked dark room & literally thank god everytime a bad one ends. i'm not really that religious but why not, he still listens......right? .........Jack
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #15 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 7:12pm » |
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CRAZY?
Got the cold down......LOL ;D
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #16 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 9:24pm » |
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The original inquiry failed to consider unplanned efforts to abort a cluster.
In 1994 I was managing the installation and software implementation of a very expensive IBM continuous form laser printer (229 ppm) at the Baptist Annuity Board (basically an insurance company). We were working in the, literally, "glass house" control room. A headache started and scaled up very quickly. I knew of an area that was very, very cold and isolated so I was on my way.
I reached for the glass house door with my left hand expecting to walk out on the right hand side. Wrong! I ran into a regular glass wall at top speed. Knocked me out cold for about ten minutes.
Results? Big assed bruise on my forehead. Upside? Headache only lasted twenty more minutes that I can remember, but I couldn't decide which part of my head hurt the most.
Collateral? The BAB wanted to know if I was a practicing Baptist. And, would I like to buy a policy?
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #17 on: Mar 13th, 2003, 9:36pm » |
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OMG BillyJ that is one of the funniest things I've read in quite a while.
I guess I'm a bit more timid than some here... I pretty much always at least have on a pair of boxers and boots when dancing outside in the snow. Also, I haven't done the dirt diving thing from CJohnson, but I have dived head first into a snowbank to get cold quick.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #18 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 12:39am » |
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Hey jonny, at least you kept your socks on.....wouldn't want you to catch cold!!!!!
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #19 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 9:47am » |
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on Mar 13th, 2003, 3:38pm, Linda_Howell wrote:
I guess it would have to be getting hit on an plane at 35,000 feet over Texas...out of Imitrex.....going into the small bathroom,.......on my knees ,sucking air out of the AC vents in there. Oh......with people banging on the door to get in. Jeeeeez, what we won't do, huh? |
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Wow, I hope this doesn't happen to me tomorrow - going cross-country to Cali tmw AM. I am bringing plenty of Imitrex ns with me just in case though
The only thing that I can think of - besides the constant rocking and fetal position - is the one time I got hit pretty hard at work. I went into the bathroom and locked myself in a stall. After snorting the 'trex, I paced and banged my head against the walls. When I finally got back to my desk, there was a nice bruise on my forehead and everyone wondered what my problem was.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #20 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 10:08am » |
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Couple of things -
First - The dumbest thing I have ever done to get rid of a Cluster - Since the doctor told me I couldn't play football because if I took a shot to the head I might die since I had had a major head injury with surgery - He tells me this after 10 years of martial arts training. So, I decide that I am going to go into the bathroom and slam my head as hard as I can on the edge of the bath tub in an effort to knock myself out and hopefully die in the process. After the 6th hit, all I ended up with was a bloody forhead that needed stitches.
Second - The smartest thing I have ever done was go to the ER. I had 2 docs that worked hard and found the remedy which was really cool.
Lastly, Jonny, it sure must have been cold there. Either you are very poorly endowed or very shriveled. I could never cover my package like that.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #21 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 10:10am » |
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I used to stand on my head hoping the increased blood pressure to my brain would ease the pain. Running down the street like a fucking mad-man did actually work for me to. I wonder why? maybe theres a correlation.
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« Reply #22 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 4:24pm » |
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One time I tried lighting my head on fire and putting it out with a hammer every two minutes.
It didnt work.
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #23 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 7:58pm » |
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Hyperventalated into a paper bag (this was my mother's idea, by the way - some cockamamey remedy she stumbled on - anyway - it didn't work
ran around the back yard at breakneck speed - tripped in one of the holes the dog dug and put her bone in - went flying and ended up with a badly sprained ankle
Repeatedly flung myself on my bed while muttering to myself(this gives the appearance of a very bizarre person )
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Re: What is the wildest thing you did to abort a C
« Reply #24 on: Mar 14th, 2003, 8:47pm » |
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I think the funniest CH cure I ever read is Marc's "Unusual Hands On Method". I can't find it in the archives anymore though.
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