Clusterheadaches.com Message Board


    
      
        Clusterheadaches.com Message Board
        (http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi)
      

        New Message Board Archives >> 2003 Posts >> recollections.
        
(Message started by: kim on Nov 1^st, 2003, 3:01pm)

Title: recollections.
Post by kim on Nov 1^st, 2003, 3:01pm

It's been about 12 weeks. I wake up running down the hall headed for the "on" switch for coffee pot, my triptan for abortive.............then i scramble for bathroom where i turn water on in tub HOT. I grab coffee pot and pour out a cup b4 the brew is finished and dash back to bathroom where i strip and jump in the tub. I have a wash rag and switch water to ice cold (Cold goes on face). I slap the cold rag on my face and sink into the HOT water hoping it will relieve the KNOT in my neck/shoulder. I keep putting the rag under the cold water and slapping it over my face. All the while I'm swiggin the coffee. By now my husband has come in to refresh the coffee and i keep drinking it. This i do each time. I don't last more than 10 minutes in the tub because as the attack ramps i can no longer even stand to be sitting in a bathtub and must move around. So, dripping i stump out of the tub ........talking to myself ("i can't take this anymore").....as I stomp around ..........this usually lasts about 25 minutes - sometimes longer...................it's the habitual ritual - the daily dance ..........it ends with me sitting on my couch in the EXACT SAME SPOT each time, wet towel twisted and wrung tite around my neck to bring pressure/relief to that spot. That cold rag is still gripped in my hand and pressed over my eye. or side of nostril, or sumptimes i stuff it in my mouth on the side where my teeth hurt and clamp it tite..........
i rock ...........rythmic. not too fast but always with a precise and repetitive motion while my head tilts toward my neck and my mouth suspends unclosed and i drool - like a self-induced trance. Finally, i feel that pain DRAIN like a clogged sink - it trickles down and empties from my body through my neck. Blessed calm and no more pain. I am peaceful once again. Until it comes back.

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by BarbaraD on Nov 1^st, 2003, 7:15pm

Awesome...

I've been going through the archives today and there's some descriptions that were totally unreal if one had not been there. those of us who go there TOO often can only feel it and cringe for them.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by Patrick_A on Nov 1^st, 2003, 7:49pm

I am also amazed at some of our similarities. Like how the pain just kind of slowly drifts away, and how you can actually feel it draining. Mine will start easing off and be gone in about 3 minutes. Sitting there with your head in your hands, all of your ammunition within an arms reach, and smiling because it is finally gone.

Patrick

http://216.40.249.192/s/contrib/sarge/Guillotine_anim.gif

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by Prense on Nov 1^st, 2003, 8:58pm

I am relieved when it's gone, but I can hardly say that I smile afterwards. As long as the trex keeps working, my dance will continue to be... Stab and go! ;;D

My "new" doc is a bit concerned with the amount of my trex usage... Oh well, I told her to get me on a preventative that does better than nothing, and that usage will decline! ;;D

Thanks for sharing Kim...

Chris

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by Marc on Nov 1^st, 2003, 9:25pm

If I'm only getting hit with one full blown CH per day, I get euphoric when the pain leaves me - it's actually a "high".

If I'm getting hit multiple times a day, when the pain drains away my victory is short lived. I cringe while I wait in terror for the next one.......

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by sheppard1 on Nov 2^nd, 2003, 11:00am

Marc--Same thing here. If it's just one attack per day, I get the euphoric feeling....but if I'm getting drilled 3-6 times per day, that feeling doesn't exist, just dread.

I think a lot of it has to do with how much sleep I get. If I'm exhausted, then it's just dreadful feelings of imminent return.

Title: Re: recollections.
Post by Jimmy_B on Nov 2^nd, 2003, 11:15am

Kim,

Your description caused me to remember these God Damn H/A's (Head-Aches, Yeah Right ???)...My nose usually begins to clear up, right before they end...I'm always euphoric when that happens. Especially for the 1am beast-feeding.

Jim