Author |
Topic: Cold water (Read 3393 times) |
|
warnberh
New Board Newbie
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Posts: 3
|
Sorry if I'm a re-iterating an old post here (I'm new) but since I TRY to stay away from drugs most of the time (still take them though), I have always been on the look out for more practical measures to help CH pain...
This one isn't glamorous, but it helps me, maybe you can get some use out of it.
When I am in the middle of a bad one, I take some ridiculously cold water (out of a pitcher in the fridge will do) and I hold it in my mouth on the side of the headache, forcing towards my top teeth. I keep doing this for about 30 minutes and it has a numbing effect.
It doesn't make it go away, but it helps a little, and plus, the whole time you do this, you get to hydrate, which doesn't hurt. Also, the routine of it is distracting, which helps too.
Anyway, here's hoping that helps someone.
|
|
 IP Logged |
|
|
|
echo
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Chronic and still alive --- I Win!
Gender: 
Posts: 4214
|
 |
Re: Cold water
« Reply #1 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 5:50pm » |
 Quote  Modify
|
Welcome to the board.
We all do whatever works during the dance. My personal favorite is to pour water on the concrete floor in the basement and try to drive my eye into the bedrock under it.
|
|
IP Logged |
"If you love something, let it go. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it".
Proud Dad of a US Marine, and a former Marine turned Police Officer.
|
|
|
Jonny
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Give me a shovel Ill dig my own grave!
 
Gender:
Posts: 26213
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #2 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 6:19pm » |
Quote Modify
|
warnberh,
That has been posted before, but it was years ago.....thanks for posting it again for the new folks that may find some help with it.
Echo,
I thought I told you to knock the floor thing off, your just going to damage the damn floor...LOL 
|
|
IP Logged |
It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
- Guiseppi
|
|
|
Guiseppi
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Gender:
Posts: 2703
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #3 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 6:27pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I used to do the same thing with crushed ice. I'd force it against the soft palate area on the roof of my mouth, on the side that hurt. It seemed to help a lot. Would reduce it by as many as 2-3 clicks on the pain scale.
Now a days I kill them in 10 minutes with oxygen. My little green tank and I are inseperable in cycle. Take care.
Guiseppi
|
|
IP Logged |
Why are all sensors, seeking intelligent life, pointed AWAY from earth?
|
|
|
warnberh
New Board Newbie
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Posts: 3
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 6:43pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I REALLY need to get an oxygen tank.....and a diving board for my basement.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Jonny
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Give me a shovel Ill dig my own grave!
Gender:
Posts: 26213
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #5 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 6:50pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Apr 17th, 2008, 6:43pm, warnberh wrote:| I REALLY need to get an oxygen tank.....and a diving board for my basement. |
|
Let me know if the doc wont give you 02, Ill sneak you in the back door and show you how to get it on your own!
Oh, forget about the diving board, Echo has lost all his teeth trying that over the years....it never works....LOL 
|
|
IP Logged |
It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
- Guiseppi
|
|
|
mezza
New Board Junior
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Gender: 
Posts: 95
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #6 on: Apr 17th, 2008, 7:57pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I've put ice cubes in my mouth too like guiseppe and held them there to numb it- does seem to help some- Sometimes just doing something while waiting for the abortives to kick in or the HA to go away rather than jumping around or pacing holding my head, feels proactive and like i am more in control
Thanks for posting- I am sure it will help others too!
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
wanna_swap_brains
New Board Junior
Gender:
Posts: 71
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #8 on: Apr 18th, 2008, 2:46am » |
Quote Modify
|
hi,wet the side of your head with cold water,then use an ice pack to kinda massage it,seems better than just an ice pack.stuart oh i only found this coz one of my brilliantly made ice packs(by me)leaked all over me.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
echo
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Chronic and still alive --- I Win!
Gender:
Posts: 4214
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #9 on: Apr 18th, 2008, 2:19pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Apr 17th, 2008, 6:50pm, Jonny wrote:
Oh, forget about the diving board, Echo has lost all his teeth trying that over the years....it never works....LOL
|
|
But I'm going to keep trying.
I laminated by testicles to the carpet but that didn't work either -- did have a great shine to them though.
|
|
IP Logged |
"If you love something, let it go. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it".
Proud Dad of a US Marine, and a former Marine turned Police Officer.
|
|
|
Batch
New Board Old Timer
FOX 2 - Check 6
Gender:
Posts: 302
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #10 on: Apr 18th, 2008, 9:17pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Warnberth,
ANYTHING that works as a vasoconstrictor in the head will have a beneficial effect on a cluster headache attack. The body senses cold in the head either by cold water or ice in the mouth, ice on top of or around the head as a potential case of hypothermia. That triggers the body's defense mechanisms to keep the core (gut) temperature in the safe range. The normal response to make this happen is to constrict the arteries, capillaries, and veins in the extremities including the head... (not needed when it gets too cold out side) to stop the loss of body heat and keep the core temperature in the safe zone.
The net result is the inner branch of the carotid artery that wraps around the trigeminal nerve also constricts as it would if you took imitrex or used a high flow oxygen therapy. All this is part of the abortive mechanism that helps to end the pain of a cluster headache attack.
Take care,
V/R, Batch
|
|
IP Logged |
You love lots of things if you live around them. But there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, not any before nor after, that’s as lovely as a great airplane. Man has one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely airplane he loses it to, there is where his heart will forever be.
|
|
|
kevmd
New Board Veteran
Who needs a hypothalamus anyway?
Gender:
Posts: 148
|
|
Re: Cold water
« Reply #11 on: Apr 18th, 2008, 11:40pm » |
Quote Modify
|
ice cold showers work great early in cycle for me
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
Help
Search
Members
Member Map
Login
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print
test rss