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Name your triggers?
« on: Jun 25th, 2006, 12:55pm » |
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If you have any? I guess this is the million dollar question though - if you knew WHAT triggered them then I know for damn sure I'd avoid that completely!!
I'm just looking for things to look at as possible triggers - are they the same as a migraine list of triggers? Choc, MSG, alcohol, etc.?
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #1 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 1:27pm » |
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You will only find a small percentage of CHers with triggers other than alcohol, sleep, relaxation and nitroglycerine.
Unlike migraine which has many
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #2 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 2:05pm » |
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Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.
But I seem to be noticing something with sugar - as in ice cream or something sweetened and CH's. Don't know if it really IS something or if I've just now accepted that this is another cycle beginning and that's why I'm getting hit so often - or if it really IS triggering a headache.
Obviously I've been avoiding it but I still woke with a kip 4-5 this morning.....
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 2:29pm » |
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Aspartame (equal) will always trigger an attack for me. So will nuts & citrics sometimes.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #4 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 2:42pm » |
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When I am in cycle(two years pain free) Beer,reefer,steam,hot weather. Otherwise they just came every four hours and lasted one hour each, almost to the minute, and the cycle lasted thirty days The whole cycle would take around ninety days with a thirty day ramp up and a thirty day wind down.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 2:45pm » |
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I haven't had a true cycle for years but back during my active periods alcohol was trigger #1. Relaxing was #2 and strong smells were #3.
Nowadays it’s relaxing and naps.
And I often feel shadows start if I spend more than a few minutes in the stinky places like the perfume aisles in the big department stores, the soap/detergent aisles in supermarkets or those odiferous damn candle shops.
Oh yeah, and the restroom on a Greyhound Bus.
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I'd say that relaxing is a trigger for you. Can you take an afternoon nap with out getting hit?
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #6 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 3:12pm » |
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Definate triggers for me are the same as bobs
Alcohol, perfumes, misc. cleaning solutions, and relaxation.
Things I avoid are grocery store detergent aisles, department stores, walmart, chinese restaurants.
Many other things I associate with triggers but I think the reality is that these things for me were mostly coincidental as during a hard cycle I get hit at least every hour.
There were times I felt it was dairy products or citrus etc.., other times I felt it was due to the fact I was exhaling after inhaling.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #7 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 4:46pm » |
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Well, I just woke from a nap and had a shadow of a headache - enough to put me on the o2 tank for 10 minutes
Apparently sleep is it too - how cruel is that. As if anything about these headaches ISN'T cruel?!
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #8 on: Jun 25th, 2006, 11:40pm » |
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For me:
1) Relaxation
2) Blood sugar issues (too high, too low, or rapid falling)
3) Heat (working or exercising outside when it's hot)
4) Falling barometer (during or before a storm)
5) Strong smells (I walked into a gourmet spice store recently and it hit me so hard & fast I thought I might pass out).
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #9 on: Jun 26th, 2006, 6:07am » |
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Barometric pressure changing is about the only thing I can put my finger on.
Nothing else seems to bother me that I can pinpoint. Looks like when they get ready to hit - they just do.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #10 on: Jun 26th, 2006, 9:26am » |
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sleep muggy heat relaxing and airplane cabin pressure went to spain for a week a few years back and on the plane my face suddenly cracked loudly and bang i got to spend a week in spain with clusters decided since then im only holidaying in the sunny uk 
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #11 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 9:08am » |
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When in cycle:
1.) Alcohol
2.) Vigorous cardiovascular exercise for more than 30 min. (or less, in heat)
3.) Certain floral scents from flowering shrubs and vines (Jasmine, Honeysuckle for example)
4.) Too much sleep or too little sleep
5.) Too much stress or too little stress
6.) The musty smell of a beer splashed bar room and cigarettes
7.) My mother-in-law when she sits in the back seat behind my head in the car.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #12 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 10:38am » |
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on Jun 27th, 2006, 9:08am, seasonalboomer wrote:
7.) My mother-in-law when she sits in the back seat behind my head in the car.
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Man, that would give me a cluster and I'm not even a clusterhead!! (I mean my beast-in-law, not yours Scott. )
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #13 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 7:43pm » |
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I used to think just about everything was a trigger.
Now, after all these years, I believe it's only alcohol and aromas.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #14 on: Jul 5th, 2006, 12:39pm » |
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1. Photoperiod.
2. Alcohol (in cycle).
3. REM sleep.
4. When it's time for them to come, they come.
That's it.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #15 on: Jul 5th, 2006, 8:27pm » |
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barometric pressure changes. (Every time it rains or snows.) Heat. both trigger kip10s for me.
Aspartame triggers migraines for me.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #16 on: Jul 6th, 2006, 6:59pm » |
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Triggers for migraine, but the clusters just come or don't come.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #17 on: Jul 7th, 2006, 2:12am » |
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Extreme hot or cold weather and naps during the day (the basics).
I have noticed that every cycle I've had since quitting cigarettes (199 are alot less painful. The pain is still severe but not quite as bad.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #18 on: Jul 7th, 2006, 10:23pm » |
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I sometimes get hit when I am shaking and tumbling, If my wife takes a bath in her perfume, I can not be around when she is using her hairspray, beer, brown alcohol, red wine, Hazel Nuts I use to love those things or any of the hazelnut coffee just the smell kills.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #19 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 3:29pm » |
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Alcohol of any kind (when in cycle)
Perfumes/ scented candles, etc (I do not go through the perfume aisles in department store or in to candle shops at all any more - even when out of cycle.
Napping during the day (not that I ever have time anyway
 , or really relaxing in the evening after dinner (big hit time for me - I do laundry or something fun, like that instead)
Sometimes, but not always, red meat.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #20 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 4:44pm » |
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When off cycle, I'm immune. When I'm on cycle, alcohol, especially grain alcohols, dramatically changing sleep cycle, going from days to graves, and stress. But like everyone else said, I can religously avoid every trigger and still get hit 2X a day!
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #21 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 6:13pm » |
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#1 relaxation-
#2 relaxation
#3 sleeping too long
#4 1:30-3:00 p.m.
#5 stuff air-need fresh air
#6 relaxation
MYNM, what's shaking and tumbling?
Alot of you seem to react to smells-hmm..never noticed that myself.
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #22 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 7:19am » |
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Alcohol while on cycle ( when not on, im immune too)
and taking a nap in the day after work,
this is annoying because the lack of sleep from the night before makes me really need to charge my batteries.
musty air
when its "close" ie humid
when its hot
i too havent noticed anything about strong smells - i might watch out for that one !!
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #23 on: Jul 12th, 2006, 3:14pm » |
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seasons, relaxation (always got hit when I got off work), beer,
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Re: Name your triggers?
« Reply #24 on: Jul 15th, 2006, 1:08am » |
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1. Going to sleep.
2. Alcohol.
3. Half burnt jet fuel.
Maybe some others but I'm not seeing them anymore...
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