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DJNOUCH
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Exercise & Clusters
« on: Aug 16th, 2005, 7:30am » |
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I have been a chronic cluster sufferer for about 7 years now with an average of about 2 major attacks a day. I have always worked out with resistance type training, however about two months ago we bought an elipitcal stepper for cardio exercise. I have been doing one hour on this machine three days a week....and have not had a single attack since....... Is there any known connection that anyone knows about ? Or is this strictly a coincidence ? Would sincerely appreciate any input ... David (Nlokahi@aol.com)
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #1 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 9:04am » |
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Don't know about exercise as a preventative for ch but I can abort an oncomming attack with a few minutes of "streneous" exercise. Not sure if it's endorphins or hyperventillating.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #2 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 9:14am » |
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I don't know about as a preventative either (as my wife likes to remind me that I don't go to the gym enough...), but for me it doesn't work as an abortive. I have tried heavy cardio at the onset of an attack, and it increases the pain level quickly and intensely for me.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #3 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 12:02pm » |
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I'm episodic and sometimes find that rapid breathing (almost hyperventilating) can help subside and attack. Not sure it would work for everyone, though.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #4 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 4:17pm » |
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I'm episodic. Excercise, or the lack thereof, never seemed to make much difference in the number of hits, or intensity, until my cycle this year. If I so much as break a sweat, I got hit. The more I worked out, the higher the intensity and longer the hit lasted.
Glad it's working for you.
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PS no wonder I've gained a pound or two (or twenty) 
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #5 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 6:29pm » |
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Opposite for me. If I want to gaurentee an attack, all I have to do is go for a hard run. The attack occurs almost exactly 1.5 hours after I finish the run.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #6 on: Aug 16th, 2005, 9:27pm » |
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Exercise has never caused mine. But I have found if one is starting I run up and down the stairs and it can abort it.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #7 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 1:54am » |
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I used to dance professionally and then when in cycle I would get hit after a dance session.
But the strange thing is that during a hit (if I am at home and put music on) and do some full out dancing it sometimes help to abort. 
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #8 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 9:01am » |
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Hard labor of excercise throughoug a day will nearly always trigger a serious attack. Exercise at the onset of an attack has not been effective at aborting an attack. Outside of pacing the floors I just cannot concentrate on rapid physical movement.
I actually have to remind myself to just breathe during severe attacks because I often find myslef holding my breath. When I do breath again it's usually heavy and deep breathing to compensate and I once thought that this brought relief.
I did some deep breathing exercises to test this theory and the result was at best 50/50 which is very close to the percentage of attacks that ramp up and mysteriously stop without any concious intervention on my part.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #9 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 10:58am » |
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A long hot day of exercise triggered my last cycle. Moderate exercise makes my head feel better during the cycle. Not sure if it's really related or not since I've experienced it both ways. I've gotten relief during exercise and have had exercise trigger them.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #10 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 1:27pm » |
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When in cycle, if I do any strenous aerobic activity for more than 15 or 20 minute, I will get a Kip 8+ headache within 20 minutes of stopping the excercise.
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Re: Exercise & Clusters
« Reply #11 on: Aug 17th, 2005, 2:12pm » |
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on Aug 16th, 2005, 6:29pm, 1968eric wrote:| Opposite for me. If I want to gaurentee an attack, all I have to do is go for a hard run. The attack occurs almost exactly 1.5 hours after I finish the run. |
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Mine is timed at about 17 to 32 minutes from the completion of my run, including cool down walk.... You gotta love these things. Was able to run this week for first time since July 15  with completion of cycle. Still ifnd that I start "thinking" about it as my run gets near the end. Will I or won't I. Today I came in and downed a Red Bull and took 5 minutes of O2 "just in case". Wacky behavior are us.
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