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(Message started by: EBRisky on Sep 17^th, 2003, 7:03pm)

Title: Hangover
Post by EBRisky on Sep 17^th, 2003, 7:03pm

I am having a bout with headaches after about five years of nothing. This one is lasting about two months so far. I just discovered this message board. I frequently have what I describe as a "fog" or "funk" in my head. It feels a little like a constant hangover despite not drinking alcohol. I get bad headache episodes at night and sometimes during the day. I am curious whether anyone else has this fog or funk of a general pain or "heaviness" during the day?

Thanks for your help. I am so happy to have found this board. I was on prednisone and found some relief with lidocaine through the nose. My doctor now wants me to start amitriptelyene but I am nervous about having to take a pill every day.

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by Charlie on Sep 17^th, 2003, 7:17pm

Welcome to the madhouse. If you stick around you'll find some good ideas about handling this horror.

I can't say I felt like Iwas having a hangover or was foggy (other than what I've experienced for 57 years) but I know the things wore me out most of the time.

Here are two links: One for a technique I found effective and a second link to a description of this disease which does a wonderful job explaining to employers and others that this has nothing to with what is thought of as a “headache.”

http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/

http://www.ouch-uk.org/ch/note_colleagues.cfm

Good luck and keep in touch.

Charlie

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by Prense on Sep 17^th, 2003, 8:16pm

I never had a hangover feeling or type of HA without actually having a hangover...

I do get shadows which can last for quite a long time (sometimes preceeding an attack) but they are different from a HA associated with a hangover. Totally different feeling for me.

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by ckelly181 on Sep 17^th, 2003, 8:47pm

Hey Risky,

I get that heaviness feeling a lot - like a cloud of dull pain or pressure behind my eye, or on the side of my head, which hurts, but doesn't. I have to work really hard to RELAX about it, because it tends to wind me up in anxiousness and bring on the beast - especially if I'm not near the 02 tank.

The worst is when I'm teaching a class...I'm just loathe to say - go home, I have a bad one coming on...They get joy from my pain...heh heh...

Chris

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by UnsolvedEquation on Sep 17^th, 2003, 9:02pm

Well...you found the right place to ask questions about headaches...
amitriptelyene ... a sleeping pill. ??? ???
Goodluck Risky

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by cootie on Sep 17^th, 2003, 10:53pm

Hi EBRisky.........stick around cuz you'll lern alot and get alot of help here...yer in the right place fer sure ! Pam that has been in a fog fer ever

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by Patrick_A on Sep 17^th, 2003, 11:06pm

Welcome to CH.com, Lots of good Info here and at OUCH.com, Sorry ur in pain and hope ya find relief soon. You describe your hangover like i would describe a shadow, People around here refer to that as a shadow, I think!

PF, Patrick

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by EBRisky on Sep 17^th, 2003, 11:23pm

Thank you all for your help. Can someone explain more about these shadows? I would like to know the details of what they feel like so I can tell if this is actually what I am describing. Right now it is 10.43 p.m. and I have a general pain in my head. I know I can get to sleep with it, but I am also certain that in a few hours it will intensify and wake me up. It lingers there all the time waiting, it seems, to strike.

Does this make sense to you folks?

Title: Re: Hangover
Post by Patrick_A on Sep 17^th, 2003, 11:30pm

That is exactly what i would call a shadow. Mine come after the initial CH, and hang around till the next bout of the CH, or i might get a break from the CH but then start shadowing leading into my next CH. Its just kind of like a Migraine leading into a CH.

Hope that helps and only my opinion, Patrick :)