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Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:22pm » |
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I cannot take heat on my head during an attack. I took a hot shower once and it about killed me. Ice pack seems to help tone down the real sharp jabs sometimes. Is that typical or are some of you able to stand a heat pack or hot shower?
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:25pm » |
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For me...it has to be ice. Like you, heat makes it much worse.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:32pm » |
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For me it has to be heat but I'm always opposite because when I am having a cluster heachache I can't get up and most people can't stay still.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #3 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:32pm » |
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Heat for me...it be a boring world if we were all the same...lol
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:37pm » |
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Personally, I can't stand either. I usually take the cold pack and put it on my knee, lower back, chest, etc. ... any where but my temple/eye area. It seems to help draw attention away from the cluster, somehow. But usually, I end up throwing it across the room anyway. Oh well, we're all different.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #5 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 8:53pm » |
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Both and neither. I usually do what feels good at that exact moment, only seconds later it being the worst thing ever to do. Moment by moment is how I take them.....
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #6 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 9:06pm » |
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Purple ......
I like cold, but I don't like to move either. Still and quiet is what I've always done. After reading about all the pacing though, I tried it on one. It definitely helped during the attack, but it seemed to make the attack last longer. I wonder if we've all just learned to cope on our own the first few cycles until we've realized we need medical assistance. Then those little "self-help" items become permenant fixtures in our anti-attack repoirtore.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #7 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 10:41pm » |
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 2nd, 2005, 11:33pm » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2005, 9:06pm, hzzz wrote:Purple ......
I like cold, but I don't like to move either. Still and quiet is what I've always done. After reading about all the pacing though, I tried it on one. It definitely helped during the attack, but it seemed to make the attack last longer. I wonder if we've all just learned to cope on our own the first few cycles until we've realized we need medical assistance. Then those little "self-help" items become permenant fixtures in our anti-attack repoirtore. |
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So now that you've tried the pacing do you rather be quiet or do the pacing?
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #9 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 6:01am » |
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #10 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 7:53am » |
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ice...the colder the better!
heat...makes things worse.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #11 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 8:42am » |
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Depends on the Kip...the lower the kip I want ice...when they ramp up ice and rock or pace, but past a certain threshold, get me to a hot shower!!!! My apartment complex has high pressure shower heads and the constant beating of the hot water on my face and skull at that point seems help...least feels like it does anyway. 
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #12 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 9:34am » |
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Hey Redd, do you have one of the pulsating type shower heads? They're great. Waterpic makes a good one. The heads that have a hose are best. You can aim it where you need it and the hose is long enough that it can be used even if you are thrashing about on the shower floor.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #13 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 11:23am » |
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Wish I did Bob, but no....it's the water saver heads because of course water is included in the rent. Some I know the water trickles out but these babys are high pressure...I love it....
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #14 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 11:31am » |
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Ice on the back of my neck, or on the top of my head and brow, on the affected side. Because I am also one of those CHers that gets a full body-temperature spike when I'm getting hit, the ice helps two-fold.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #15 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 11:44am » |
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Ice.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #16 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 3:27pm » |
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I have to have heat, as hot as i can manage with a gellpack underneath my eye.
Have to try ice sometime.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #17 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 4:59pm » |
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I take the hottest bath possible with only my nose sticking out, I think that breathing the steam off the water helps as much as the immersion. Then before i get out I turn on the cold water and stand in the spray, I think the shock of the water temperture change freaks the body out. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #18 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 5:57pm » |
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #19 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 7:33pm » |
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If anything at all, a bottle of cold water on my forehead near the site of the pain. But, in general, I can't stand any kind of touch near the affected temple.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #20 on: Mar 3rd, 2005, 7:48pm » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2005, 11:33pm, Purple_2005 wrote:
So now that you've tried the pacing do you rather be quiet or do the pacing?
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I remain still and quiet so it ends quicker. It does hurt more, but it definitely ends it quicker for me. If I'm still they almost always end in around 30 minutes. If I pace or squeeze my head it can take up to an hour for them to end.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #21 on: Mar 4th, 2005, 1:16am » |
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Ice for me too. Taking a hot shower when I am in cycle will bring them on. There is no way I can stay still. I am a rocker and if it gets worse I am a screaming pacer, pulling my hair as hard as I can or pushing it as hard as I can against the wall or floor. I am not sure if any of it really helps with the pain. But I just CANNOT be still.
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #22 on: Mar 4th, 2005, 1:26am » |
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depends, actually:
hot shower - sometimes with my clothes still on (did that one Christmas - scared the bejeezus out of the relatives and ticked off my mom because of the water dripping off me in her dining room!)...
but when I'm overheated, cold cold water - got the idea from Catlind - great and easy to do with a garden hose ....
either way, I like it coming down my head, running over the tender part that's hurting from the CH...
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #23 on: Mar 5th, 2005, 6:38am » |
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Ice or anything else cold here, thanks! Warm shower triggers CH for me sometimes.... 
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Re: Poll: Hot or ice on the head?
« Reply #24 on: Mar 5th, 2005, 7:16am » |
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Ice Cold on head. If the kip is not out of control i often times drop into a hot bath (for the neck bulge pain) and sit there with the ice on my head. If kip ramps i gotta get out of tub and move around with the ice still on my head.
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