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(Message started by: DJNOUCH on Apr 12th, 2003, 12:31pm)

Title: Sun Exposure
Post by DJNOUCH on Apr 12th, 2003, 12:31pm
I have been chronic for 5 years...Lately everytime we go out to the pool......just sitting and catching some rays....within about 30 minutes I have and incredible attack !   Has anyone else experienced this....?  Is it the bright sun or what ?   Welcome input and suggestions. DJN...Also...would appreciate your responding directly to my e address if possible   Nlokahi@aol.com as my computer is acting up and I have one heck of a time getting back on the the internet....Many Thanks

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Kenzie60 on Apr 12th, 2003, 1:11pm
I always get them from sun glare when I am driving in the late afternoon.  I also noticed that if I am in the hot sun I will start to develop shadows.  I think sun could be one of my triggers.
Roseanne

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by cbolony on Apr 12th, 2003, 4:26pm
DJNOUCH heat sometimes triggers a ch for me.If i get in a car in the summer and the car is real hot in 10 mins i will get a ch

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Karla on Apr 12th, 2003, 6:59pm
Heat triggers my ch.  I find the heat from the sun will make me misserable.  I also get ch from oven heat, indoor heat, heater in a car, working outside in garden, etc.

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Opus on Apr 12th, 2003, 7:13pm
I thought that bright sunlight was triggering shadows until I realized they were not shadows but migraines. I guess for me the worst migraines are only 1/4 of the pain of clusters.
   opus :P

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Wendy1 on Apr 12th, 2003, 8:19pm
Heat will DEFINATELY trigger a h/a for me.  It sucks cause I'm a beach lover.  I've actually had to go from beach to ER.  Even if I'm getting overheated in a room it can trigger, but heat from the sun will trigger.  Wendy

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by cluster0557 on Apr 13th, 2003, 2:15am
I am an avid boater. Over the last two seasons in the Midwest I could barely get out on the boat due to Sun firing Cluster.

For me it had nothing to do with heat just the bright sunshine. Same this winter, I prayed for cloudy days.

Worse than Sun for me is high intensity flourescent lights like those found at target stores. Instant cluster in 10 minutes when I went there for Xmas shopping last season.

Weird part about it is if I do not have the hemicrania continua HA then Sunlight does not bother. FLourescents always do.

Doc's I have seen have no clue.

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by don on Apr 13th, 2003, 2:24am
High heat will always trigger an attack  while I am in cycle.

Maybe we should all go colonize Antartica.

Emperial Kingdom of Cluster Heads.

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Mark C on Apr 13th, 2003, 2:27pm
Heat, light, bad....cold, dark, good.


http://tinyurl.com/9g1f

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by brain_cramps on Apr 13th, 2003, 4:55pm
Guess I won't be moving to the Caymans   ;)

grant  8)

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by DaveHar on Apr 13th, 2003, 5:44pm
The bright light of the sun or any heavy light will trigger me into a migraine. If I do not catch it fast enough I will roll right into a CH from hell. I have to have extra dark shades on all summer and even when we have a bright sunny winter day. Cold is a wonderful thing for me but heat is murder.

Dave

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by kim on Apr 13th, 2003, 6:19pm
While in cycle -NEVER  hang out at the beach  - it is truly a hideous signt and experience

Hampton Beech drop out :D

YOWSA! ;)

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Not4Hire on Apr 13th, 2003, 6:50pm

on 04/13/03 at 14:27:41, Mark C wrote:
Heat, light, bad....cold, dark, good.


http://tinyurl.com/9g1f



WAY-cool-avatar......MARk C......

(?) may i add: supporters, Ueli, informed, Federation, USA...........Saddam,  Borg, most doctors, snake oil, ignorant people........

this is FUN>>how many can y'all put on each side (symetrically) for +/- ???

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by TomM on Apr 14th, 2003, 7:49am

on 04/13/03 at 16:55:09, brain_cramps wrote:
Guess I won't be moving to the Caymans   ;))
I love the Caymans and go every year in June. Fantasitc snorkeling and the rum punch is not bad,
either. ;)


Quote:
I am an avid boater. Over the last two seasons in the Midwest I could barely get out on the boat due to Sun firing Cluster.
Try Maui Jim. http://www.mauijim.com/mjweb/public/index.jsp   They're pricey but worth it. E-mail me and I can order a pair a lot cheaper than your local retailer.
The older I get the more the sunlight bothers my eyes hence I wear sunglasses on cloudy days. And when I'm in cycle...forget it. No light, no sound, no motion (except for my rocking/pounding/etc.).

MarkC--love the revolving Ying-Yang.

TomM  8)



Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by BruceD on Apr 14th, 2003, 1:14pm

on 04/13/03 at 14:27:41, Mark C wrote:
Heat, light, bad....cold, dark, good.


http://tinyurl.com/9g1f


Exactly!

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by sailpappy on Apr 19th, 2003, 10:29pm
;D ;D ;D for almost 8 years I lived on the water, I sailed 250-350 days out of the year, I never had the heat or the sun trigger an attack, in fact I reduced down to a managable average, I was tanned so dark that when I had to go to wisconsin to get the Grandkids everyone stared at us like we were from another planet or something, I had to ask someone why and thay said, Your tan, Man, Your tan!
     However driving with the sun shining through trees in a broken pattern, similar to blinking would trigger them everytime! Never wore sun block or sun Glasses?
                                                   Pappy
http://www.gifs.net/animate/sungulls.gif
http://www.gifs.net/animate/sailboat.gif

Maybe it was the way you had your neck pressed against the lounge chair or straining your eyes to look at the Babes????

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by Drk^Angel on Apr 19th, 2003, 10:40pm
Definately no sunlight or flourescent lights for me during cycle... Have to wear really dark sunglasses... Bad bad bad stuff.

PFDAN................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by andy on Apr 19th, 2003, 10:40pm
Im moving to the north pole!!  LOL.................andy

Title: Re: Sun Exposure
Post by cluster0557 on Apr 20th, 2003, 2:06am

on 04/14/03 at 07:49:57, TomM wrote:
Try Maui Jim. http://www.mauijim.com/mjweb/public/index.jsp   They're pricey but worth it. E-mail me and I can order a pair a lot cheaper than your local retailer.

MarkC--love the revolving Ying-Yang.


Only one problem with the good idea. They won't stay on my face when skiing or tubing or air chairing.

My current Sunglasses do the job when I am not doing any of the above but if I skip theplay it just not worth boating

And I  Can't fish worth a damn when  on a Slalom ski ;D



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