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(Message started by: BruceD on Jun 16^th, 2003, 11:57am)

Title: Does the beast taunt?
Post by BruceD on Jun 16^th, 2003, 11:57am

I feel like this year the beast has been taunting me. When I first found this site in January of this year I was nearing the end of a 5-month hellish cycle. Since that time I've had a couple of PF periods that were counted in weeks, but the beast keeps coming back. Some stretches it's a hit every-other day. Sometimes (like now) it's just a K7-8 hit every 3/4 days. It's almost like before a cycle is starting with sporatic hits where they eventually increase in frequency and regularity. However this time the beast has just been bouncing in and out as if to taunt me. (Could he be French? - sorry, but I'm a Monty Python fan)

Anyway, has this happened to anyone else here? Not that I'm complaining ... surely I'd take this to being in-cycle.

BTW, I'd thought of naming this post "Am I normal?", but I figured I'd open myself up to way too many wise-guy remarks from you yahoos! ;D

Thanks
BruceD

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by brain_cramps on Jun 16^th, 2003, 12:05pm

In the past, when my cycle ended it was GONE completely.

My last cycle ended in Oct and while I haven't been getting hit (or even shadows), some days that side of my head still feels 'bruised inside'. Its not painful at all, kinda just a reminder.

hope 'le beast' gives you a break,
grant 8)

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by don on Jun 16^th, 2003, 12:36pm

Quote:

I feel like this year the beast has been taunting me

Run Away! Run Away!

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by Mark C on Jun 16^th, 2003, 3:14pm

Hey Grant,
Me and you been going through the same shit...me too!

PFDAN's
Mark

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by cathy on Jun 16^th, 2003, 3:31pm

tell the beast if he comes back you'll bite his knee caps off.... ;D

Cathy

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by PINKY BABY on Jun 16^th, 2003, 11:00pm

:'( i am chronic, and i get the same thing. lots of shadows that panic me to think a new ccycle is coming. i just came out of a very strange cycle. i thought my cycle was over. i went almost a whole day with no pain. then, boom, it hit again with a vengence. the last day of this last cycle was one of intence horrifying pain. this time it scared my mother and family. that lasted for two days of constant sharp jabs one after another for about 45 minutes each time it hit. it hit me 5 times on my last day. i was pf all day. i do not have the droop, but a couple of jabs to let me know that he is still around. i am sorry that your pain was so bad.

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by Jim R on Jun 17^th, 2003, 12:08am

Yes, he does. Same here. 6 month cycle that never really ended for 9 because when I least expected it - ZAP! Finally going through (2 months now) a PF period but dreading July, when it came back last year. Good luck and wishing you PFDAN's - Jim R

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by cbolony on Jun 17^th, 2003, 10:47am

I have the same shit cycle ended march 6 two weeks PF then these low kip hits 5-8 aday maybe the verapamil is keeping them down who knows.When i went to the new neuro last week he said your left eye lid is drooping the side i get my CH on he said i wish i had my med students here to see this they only seen this in medical books i said are you kidding me then i started to laugh.Like i told the some members here that this neuro loves clusterheads will do anything to help them.BTW this my third neuro i think i found the right one :)

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by PINKY BABY on Jun 17^th, 2003, 11:22pm

tell me who this neuro is. i still can't find a decent one.
pinky

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by MarkHW on Jun 18^th, 2003, 9:41am

That's what started happening to me before I went from episodic to chronic.

The lines between cycles blurred until it just became one big cycle.

Mark

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by BruceD on Jun 18^th, 2003, 3:39pm

Yikes, MarkNW. That was the one answer that I was hoping not to get. I've been praying that this is just something "wierd" that will pass and not a prelude to something ugly to come. Oh well, I'll keep thinking it's just a taunt (unless I see a cow raining down on my head ... Fetchez la vache)

Take care
BruceD

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by PINKY BABY on Jun 19^th, 2003, 10:27am

Mark HW
that is the best decription of the continued ch. one pain blurrs into the other.
pinky

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by KingOfPain on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:00pm

Yes.

Has happened to me before.

Good luck.

KingOfPain

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by brain_cramps on Jun 19^th, 2003, 12:13pm

on 06/18/03 at 09:41:58, MarkHW wrote:

That's what started happening to me before I went from episodic to chronic.

on 06/18/03 at 15:39:23, BruceD wrote:

Yikes, MarkNW. That was the one answer that I was hoping not to get.

Shit - don't want to even think about that. In fact, I didn't even hear that.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!! I'M NOT LISTENING!!! BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!! ;)

grant 8)

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by BruceD on Jun 24^th, 2003, 3:19pm

bump for BigDan

Title: Re: Does the beast taunt?
Post by Big_Dan on Jun 24^th, 2003, 4:54pm

... Thanks, Bruce...

-Big Dan