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(Message started by: totka on May 1^st, 2003, 3:05pm)

Title: Do you remember your very first serious CH attack?
Post by totka on May 1^st, 2003, 3:05pm

;) For a clusterhead the first CH attack as remarkable as the first kiss :-*

My story in a nutshell:

In August 1982 I was after my state examinations. It was time for do nothing after a hard and stressfull period - and I had HAs from day to day. According to my doc it was "chronic HA" and took me some pills.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by CJohnson on May 1^st, 2003, 3:14pm

I was 20, living in an apartment with my girlfriend. I woke up from a nap with a very severe and new kind of headache. She said that it sounds like a migraine. It probably got to about kip 7. I tried laying in a tub full of hot water with most of my head submerged. It went away after about an hour. I had no idea what I was in for.
-Curtis

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Miklos on May 1^st, 2003, 3:22pm

April 1986, late afternoon. I was officiating an Under 16 boys soccer game. Headache hit about twenty minutes before the end of the second half. Could not finish; AR took over for last 12 minutes. I could not replace him on the line. So much for running it out.

Drove home after the match, but I cannot tell you how I did so.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by brain_cramps on May 1^st, 2003, 3:27pm

January 1982 at college - Just got up and left in the middle of a class without saying anything, thinking my head was going to explode. Not sure if I was having a nap at the time. (one of the FEW things that I actually remember from college ;))

grant

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by jonny on May 1^st, 2003, 4:18pm

Nope, way to long ago.

...................................jonny

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by kim on May 1^st, 2003, 4:27pm

Nope. Me neither. Decades ago. It's like looking out the window of a speeding train. Flashes of a bunch of times lumped all together. Attacks at different times and places - it's clear picture in my mind with not specific sequence.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by echo on May 1^st, 2003, 4:32pm

Me either -- way too long ago. Just remember it hurt like hell and couldn't figure out why. Got drunk or stoned and partied on. ;D

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Charlie on May 1^st, 2003, 4:34pm

1969 watching Jonny Carson while staying with my girlfriend. Got up from the chair convinced I was having a stroke or done for. Lots of pacing. They have always been same. Fast and always about the same horrible intensity.

They've been gone for exactly 12 years.

Charlie

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by jonny on May 1^st, 2003, 4:48pm

on 05/01/03 at 16:34:15, Charlie wrote:

They've been gone for exactly 12 years.

Do you mean EXACTLY like as in TODAY, Charlie?

If so its time to party, Well, its always time to party but this will be special!!!!

..............................jonny

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by brain_cramps on May 1^st, 2003, 4:54pm

on 05/01/03 at 16:48:43, jonny wrote:

its always time to party

Now you're talking... just found out i'm gonna be having a bankruptcy party next week!!! it'll be the last 66ouncer of Crown Royal for a while!!!

that should be good for a headache of a different type!

going under,
grant ;D

P.S. yeah, yeah I know its off topic, but my mind wanders. ;)

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Mark C on May 1^st, 2003, 5:10pm

Funny you should ask,
I was just trying to remember that the other day. I remember having terrible "sinus" headaches when I was 12 or 13. Doc gave me NOVAHISTINE (http://www.drugs.com/xq/cfm/pageID_0/brand_Novahistine/qx/) as I remember. It was the beginning of a couple of decades of mis-diagnosis. I don't think CH was even invented then. I will be 42 this year. At least it has a name now!

PFDAN's
Mark

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Elaine on May 1^st, 2003, 7:13pm

Yes I will never forget it! I was married to my first husband. I woke up screaming in pain. I was so scard cause I had had bad headaches before but nothing like this. My ex was not the kind of man you wake up in the middle of the night. He got so mad at me he slaped me. I remember taking the kids and putting them in the car and trying to drive to my moms house. Its was the lonest drive. I remember telling mom take the kids I think something is bad wrong with me. Once the kids were save I sat in the yard of my MOMS ROCKING AND SCREAMING. That cluster lasted over three hours. .

I went though all kinds of test for weeks and all kinds of treatments for years, before I found out what they were. By the way I divorced the SOB I was married to at the time!

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by don on May 1^st, 2003, 10:20pm

to long ago but i can say this in complete confidence;

#1 hurt as much as # 573,835,000

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Frank on May 1^st, 2003, 11:24pm

I don't remember exactly on what day or where I was, but my attacks started in May 1989. I have long thought it might have coincided with my discontinuance of being a cocaine junkie a couple of weeks earlier (because Lidocaine up the nose is an effective cluster treatment). Maybe my nose was so numb during the previous seven years... I could have had clusters and not even known it.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Drk^Angel on May 1^st, 2003, 11:54pm

The earliest one I can remember: I was in school, and got a horrible pain in my eye. Teacher had someone walk me to the principal's office, where I spent the next 2 hours in pain, only to have the principal come up to me after it was over and say I looked okay to him... He was a damn jackass, but not just because of this.

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

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Bill_C on May 2^nd, 2003, 12:13am

Sure. I was trying to watch the first moon landing and didn't understand what was happening. With my head, not with the astronauts. I had worked on the Apollo program so I was damned if I wasn't going to watch, no matter what. So I did it through a haze of alcohol and pain and finally fell asleep about one in morning, exhausted of course.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Wolfmom on May 2^nd, 2003, 1:12am

I remember..1991..I was on a hunting trip..woke me in the middle of the night.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by fubar on May 2^nd, 2003, 3:09am

Like it was yesterday.

My first real 10, my first indication that something was simply not right... I was water skiing, having a great time. We were had joined up with some other skiing buddies on the water who had a large cabin cruiser, so we basically sat in the big boy drinking beer and tequila shots (I was recently 21) not feeling too bad, and my turn came up to take a few laps. I got in the water, got up easily like normal, had some great cuts and high speed jumps over the wake, when BAM... my head exploded. I was paralyzed with pain, went down instantly. My friends had rarely seen me go down like that, especially when I wasn't doing anything at all at the time (it was 1 second after completing a very hard cut and pull, hard work). So, there I sat in the water, face down, unable to move or do anything. I was able to hold my breath until the boat came back and I was dragged from the water. I couldn't even talk yet, so everybody was confused. I spent the rest of the day in the cabin wishing I had a way to knock myself out. I think my friends figured it was alcohol, but I knew it was something else. It took a long time to be diagnosed with clusters.

-Fu

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by BobG on May 2^nd, 2003, 12:29pm

No.

But at my age it's hard to remember what I ate for breakfast.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Kenzie60 on May 2^nd, 2003, 1:30pm

???I think my first attack was in May of 1989. It was the night before my brothers wedding. I recall getting up the night before in pain waking my husband. Telling him my right eye felt like it was going to blow right out of my head, the pain was horrible. The next day (the day of the wedding) I felt like shit all day, so I went to the doctor's and he said I had a sinus infection and prescribed anibiotics and i went on my way and for the next 11 years I was treated for sinus infections every spring. :(
Roseanne

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by nancyann on May 2^nd, 2003, 1:39pm

I would have to say my first 10 (though I didn't know it at the time) was January 1, 2003. Hell of a way to bring in the new year. Was driving the car with my husband in next to me and the kids in the back. Was just grateful I could pull over.

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by oringkid on May 2^nd, 2003, 1:39pm

I remember the first one, but sorta vaguely.
It was '72 or'73. I remember I was laying on my bed, don't know if I had been sleeping or not, and what felt like a cramp in my head started and got worse and worse and worse! I remember thinking after it went away, that God was punishing me for something and I didn't tell my parents. (Back then, I was Catholic) Once I realized that there wasn't anything I could think of that I should be punished for, I discarded that thought.

Sherry

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by Brian_Y on May 2^nd, 2003, 1:45pm

There was a giant snake and a doughnut and a...wait, wrong thread. Sorry...

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by jonny on May 3^rd, 2003, 3:10pm

on 05/02/03 at 12:29:32, BobG wrote:

No.
But at my age it's hard to remember what I ate for breakfast.

LMMFAO, Bob......Breakfast could be at midnight for you some days, eh? ;D

..............................jonny

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by ZAIRA on May 6^th, 2003, 3:55pm

I had the first attack the 15th August 1993, I was in the sea and I was 14 yrs. old.... :-/ >:(

Ciao, Zaira

Title: Re: Do you remember your very first serious CH att
Post by stuey on May 8^th, 2003, 4:46pm

My first experience I was in the Village in NYC three years ago. I had just left a bar after having two drinks. I wasn't drunk at all and decided to walk around cause I didn't wanna go right home being in that bad relationship I was in. So I am walking and all of a sudden I got hit. I never knew we could feel this kind of pain. I was screaming and people was looking at me like I was crazy. I thought I had an aneurysm rupture cause my mom had that happen. I must have taken 20 advils and it didn't touch the pain. So that's my first. I remember it as vividly as the first sex I have ever had. I didn't know what else was in store after that but I sure found out.