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What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« on: Mar 28th, 2005, 11:57pm » |
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In my desperation to gain a foothold on the relentless CH's, I have done some whacked shit in the last few years. Back in '98 when I first went chronic my brother read about a guy overseas who did a shot of cider vinegar when a Ch would onset and it would take it away within minutes. He brought me a bottle, and I wound up drinking half that fucker and just felt sick as hell while riding out the attack (later regurgitating.)
I also tried a towel smeared with mentholatum, stuck in the freezer, wrapped around my head at onset. I do not recommend this, as I almost went blind!
The worst though had to be what I call the "salad from hell" remedy that, I still wonder if the person who introduced was serious, or I had actually been someones ginuea/joke pig. They said to take a plug of bleu cheese and stick it under the tongue, while rubbing down your chest with cider vinegar. Not only did it not stop the attack, I puked and smelled like a sickly caeser salad! To this day when I get a whiff of vinegar I instantly want to yawn technicolor. That is what made dyeing easter eggs with the kids so fun.
Now fess up. What's the worst thing you've tried?
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PS - The best thing I have found so far is shrooms - though they are hard to find.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 12:07am » |
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Years before I ever had a diagnosis, my mother convinced me that if I sliced a potato really thin, soaked the slices in vinegar and placed them over my forehead tied tightly with a hankie...my headache would go away. It didn't.  Didin't stop me from trying more than once though.  Wonder what it is about vinegar?
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 12:25am » |
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Seems to me Brad got pretty heavy into the nose spray for sinus attacks or allergy's early on before he knew what was goin on...........all that did was make BOTH his eyes read and both sides of his nose run. Sneezein durein an attack wasn't much fun either as I recall that shit caused. Sniffin for a cure Pam
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 12:45am » |
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Cayenne pepper up the nose... Not for the faint of heart 
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 1:05am » |
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I seem to remember doing table salt up the nose. Can't remember the logic behind that one.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #5 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 5:35am » |
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My husband came back from Venezuela with a "cure" -- Banana peel around the forehead. Put the icky side down, wrap with headband....... Fruitflies love it, but it didn't really do anything for the HA..... 
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #6 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 8:41am » |
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Refrigerated normal saline drops. Snorted half the damn bottle during a Kip-10.. It's a wonder I didn't drown myself! LOL
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 9:22am » |
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 8:41am, Frank_W wrote:| Refrigerated normal saline drops....LOL |
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You were trying to 'cure' yourself...
like a country HAM!
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 9:23am » |
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Definitely magnets. My dad bought these magnets and they were REALLY expensive. They had stickies so you could put them on your forehead...well, sure enough when I woke up they were all stuck in my hair, etc...but not on my head at all! So my dad cut open a headband and put them in there for me to try. They were about the size of a square domino...so I'd say if anything, it just hurt my head more! We did return them after about a week or two because they were so expensive and didn't work worth a crap!
I have also driven from my home outside of Philly to the Meadow Lands to go to this chriopractic clinic and have my neck snapped once or twice..but because I drove all the way up there during their convention, I had it done for free.
And then there was the first accupuncturist I went to. She was a total fruitcake. She was certified...but she had no clue what in hell she was doing. Just kept sticking the needles everywhere....made for a nice naptime, but it didn't do crap for the headaches. The 2nd accupuncturist actually knew what he was doing, and I could feel changes in my body as a whole...but it still did nothing for the headaches.
I'm sure I could go on and on with crazy things I've tried....but those stick out in my mind at the moment!
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« Reply #9 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 9:31am » |
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ROFL, Paul!
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 9:31am » |
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I got Mike to put hot mustard powder up his nose one time at the onset of an attack. It's amazing he still even speaks to me after that one.
do NOT try this. It does NOT work. (It does, however, keep your husband quiet for a few days.)
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #11 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 9:51am » |
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heh heh, this was my second cycle (still undiagnosed),
My head was on fire and I was getting really mad and pacing, cursing and banging head on the wall, I thought...alright fucker...lets see wha you got and I poured a half mickey of tequila into a 16oz beer stein...added about 2 tablespoons of tobasco sauce, another 4 tablespoons of louisiana hotsauce, pureed with jalapenos, hot banana pepper rings and about a teaspoon of cheyenne pepper. Burnt my throat to hell on the way down, fried my nostrils when it came back up  and was crappin' flames for 2 days after that (about 10 times a day)...and still had the CH.
Ever notice how much it hurts when you have a CH and pukin'? Needless to say...whatever it is can't be burnt out of there...lmao 
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #12 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 10:27am » |
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When I first arrived at this blessing of a place and was completely naive and without any meds I read........
rubbing cat shit and sniffing ammonia.......
Well I don't have a cat but I ran for that ammonia........
bad but desperate move.
Don't do it!! dangerous!!
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Head against this wall again
But the blows they have just a little more
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #13 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 10:41am » |
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:51am, mikey-de wrote:heh heh, this was my second cycle (still undiagnosed),
My head was on fire and I was getting really mad and pacing, cursing and banging head on the wall, I thought...alright fucker...lets see wha you got and I poured a half mickey of tequila into a 16oz beer stein...added about 2 tablespoons of tobasco sauce, another 4 tablespoons of louisiana hotsauce, pureed with jalapenos, hot banana pepper rings and about a teaspoon of cheyenne pepper. Burnt my throat to hell on the way down, fried my nostrils when it came back up and was crappin' flames for 2 days after that (about 10 times a day)...and still had the CH.
Ever notice how much it hurts when you have a CH and pukin'? Needless to say...whatever it is can't be burnt out of there...lmao |
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LMAO!! That's got to be the funniest thing I've read all week. LOL! (and I think I need a glass of water after just READING that!) LOL
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 10:27am, E-Double wrote:When I first arrived at this blessing of a place and was completely naive and without any meds I read........
rubbing cat shit and sniffing ammonia.......
Well I don't have a cat but I ran for that ammonia........
bad but desperate move.
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I remember that. The Guest Book Banditos looking for a way to laugh at someone. I'm SO glad you didn't have a cat.
I really haven't done anything crazy. Dangerous is another story. I was having the week from hell plus hadn't slept in several days. I wanted to die, but decided to settle for unconscious. I tried a mixture of oxycontin controlled release, oxycontin immediate release, phenergan, flexeril, nortriptyline, halcion and tylenol pm. With all this I got a sum total of about 3 hours of sleep and was awakened by yet another attack. Oh, yeah and puked my guts up to boot. Not fun.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #15 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 11:14am » |
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I stole a bottle of lidocaine from the clinic and poured it up my nose.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
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I once got naked and stuck a traffic cone up my ass.
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« Reply #17 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 11:35am » |
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Ben-Gay up the nose 
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:28am, echo wrote:I once got naked and stuck a traffic cone up my ass.
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Quote:| Run naked with a traffic cone shoved up your ass and scream "Look at me - I'm the space shuttle!" |
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I laughed so hard when I read this that my stomach hurt. I just had to write it down for future reference!
Still LMAO when I read it.
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:35am, pattik wrote:| Ben-Gay up the nose |
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I aint never ben-gay...
up the nose?
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...not that there's anything wrong with that. 
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thought it would have a numbing effect on that blasted nerve 
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on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:42am, Gator wrote:
Let's see. I believe the phrase was:
I laughed so hard when I read this that my stomach hurt. I just had to write it down for future reference!
Still LMAO when I read it.
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Amazed that you remembered that. Truly amazed you wrote it down for future reference.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #23 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 12:02pm » |
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Mine was actually not a "home" remedy but a remedy I tried on a vacation. I was in Germany a couple years ago and mid-cycle, but I would be damned if I was going to tour Bavaria and not drink beer. So I paid.
One night after getting pasted and finally bedding down I got hit. I was still very buzzed and decided to go for a walk. We'd just had a few inches of snow and it was a winter wonderland in this little hamlet. I'm slipping around with droopy eye, and clusterhead through this little town. Along the sidewalk everyone had these little walls that had a 3 inch covering of snow. so every few houses I would lean my face into the snow pile. Stumble along a few more houses and then plant my face into another snowpile.
Finally after walking around for an hour and half I realized I was still so drunk, and starting to feel nauseous, so I decorated a snow bank with my earlier imbibing and then went back to the Gasthaus we were staying at and found a way to sleep.
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Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried?
« Reply #24 on: Mar 29th, 2005, 12:05pm » |
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Man, y'all are some twisteds!
Cayenne pepper up the nose? Ben-gay? Salt? Saline?
And Echo, if you're running around with a traffic cone shoved up your ass, I'm a thinkin' CH isn't your biggest problem at the moment.
LMAO,
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