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Title: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by PrettyH8Machine on Mar 28th, 2005, 11:57pm In my desperation to gain a foothold on the relentless CH's, I have done some whacked shit in the last few years. Back in '98 when I first went chronic my brother read about a guy overseas who did a shot of cider vinegar when a Ch would onset and it would take it away within minutes. He brought me a bottle, and I wound up drinking half that fucker and just felt sick as hell while riding out the attack (later regurgitating.) I also tried a towel smeared with mentholatum, stuck in the freezer, wrapped around my head at onset. I do not recommend this, as I almost went blind! The worst though had to be what I call the "salad from hell" remedy that, I still wonder if the person who introduced was serious, or I had actually been someones ginuea/joke pig. They said to take a plug of bleu cheese and stick it under the tongue, while rubbing down your chest with cider vinegar. Not only did it not stop the attack, I puked and smelled like a sickly caeser salad! To this day when I get a whiff of vinegar I instantly want to yawn technicolor. That is what made dyeing easter eggs with the kids so fun. Now fess up. What's the worst thing you've tried? CD PS - The best thing I have found so far is shrooms - though they are hard to find. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by nani on Mar 29th, 2005, 12:07am Years before I ever had a diagnosis, my mother convinced me that if I sliced a potato really thin, soaked the slices in vinegar and placed them over my forehead tied tightly with a hankie...my headache would go away. It didn't. :( Didin't stop me from trying more than once though. :-/ Wonder what it is about vinegar? Best thing I've found is kudzu. Cheap, pretty easy to find and legal. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by cootie on Mar 29th, 2005, 12:25am Seems to me Brad got pretty heavy into the nose spray for sinus attacks or allergy's early on before he knew what was goin on...........all that did was make BOTH his eyes read and both sides of his nose run. Sneezein durein an attack wasn't much fun either as I recall that shit caused. Sniffin for a cure Pam I'll be you don't eat pickles do ya Carl ? |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by rextangle on Mar 29th, 2005, 12:45am Cayenne pepper up the nose... Not for the faint of heart [smiley=nono.gif] |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by zrmulcahy on Mar 29th, 2005, 1:05am I seem to remember doing table salt up the nose. Can't remember the logic behind that one. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by BarbaraD on Mar 29th, 2005, 5:35am My husband came back from Venezuela with a "cure" -- Banana peel around the forehead. Put the icky side down, wrap with headband....... Fruitflies love it, but it didn't really do anything for the HA..... :P Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Frank_W on Mar 29th, 2005, 8:41am Refrigerated normal saline drops. Snorted half the damn bottle during a Kip-10.. It's a wonder I didn't drown myself! LOL |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by vig on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:22am on 03/29/05 at 08:41:20, Frank_W wrote:
You were trying to 'cure' yourself... like a country HAM! |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Lizzie2 on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:23am Definitely magnets. My dad bought these magnets and they were REALLY expensive. They had stickies so you could put them on your forehead...well, sure enough when I woke up they were all stuck in my hair, etc...but not on my head at all! So my dad cut open a headband and put them in there for me to try. They were about the size of a square domino...so I'd say if anything, it just hurt my head more! We did return them after about a week or two because they were so expensive and didn't work worth a crap! I have also driven from my home outside of Philly to the Meadow Lands to go to this chriopractic clinic and have my neck snapped once or twice..but because I drove all the way up there during their convention, I had it done for free. And then there was the first accupuncturist I went to. She was a total fruitcake. She was certified...but she had no clue what in hell she was doing. Just kept sticking the needles everywhere....made for a nice naptime, but it didn't do crap for the headaches. The 2nd accupuncturist actually knew what he was doing, and I could feel changes in my body as a whole...but it still did nothing for the headaches. I'm sure I could go on and on with crazy things I've tried....but those stick out in my mind at the moment! Lizzie :) |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Frank_W on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:31am ROFL, Paul! |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Margi on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:31am I got Mike to put hot mustard powder up his nose one time at the onset of an attack. It's amazing he still even speaks to me after that one. do NOT try this. It does NOT work. (It does, however, keep your husband quiet for a few days.) |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by mikey-de on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:51am heh heh, this was my second cycle (still undiagnosed), My head was on fire and I was getting really mad and pacing, cursing and banging head on the wall, I thought...alright fucker...lets see wha you got and I poured a half mickey of tequila into a 16oz beer stein...added about 2 tablespoons of tobasco sauce, another 4 tablespoons of louisiana hotsauce, pureed with jalapenos, hot banana pepper rings and about a teaspoon of cheyenne pepper. Burnt my throat to hell on the way down, fried my nostrils when it came back up [smiley=hurl.gif]and was crappin' flames for 2 days after that (about 10 times a day)...and still had the CH. Ever notice how much it hurts when you have a CH and pukin'? Needless to say...whatever it is can't be burnt out of there...lmao [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by E-Double on Mar 29th, 2005, 10:27am When I first arrived at this blessing of a place and was completely naive and without any meds I read........ rubbing cat shit and sniffing ammonia....... Well I don't have a cat but I ran for that ammonia........ bad but desperate move. Don't do it!! dangerous!! |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Frank_W on Mar 29th, 2005, 10:41am on 03/29/05 at 09:51:42, mikey-de wrote:
LMAO!! That's got to be the funniest thing I've read all week. LOL! (and I think I need a glass of water after just READING that!) LOL [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Gator on Mar 29th, 2005, 10:44am on 03/29/05 at 10:27:57, E-Double wrote:
I remember that. The Guest Book Banditos looking for a way to laugh at someone. I'm SO glad you didn't have a cat. I really haven't done anything crazy. Dangerous is another story. I was having the week from hell plus hadn't slept in several days. I wanted to die, but decided to settle for unconscious. I tried a mixture of oxycontin controlled release, oxycontin immediate release, phenergan, flexeril, nortriptyline, halcion and tylenol pm. With all this I got a sum total of about 3 hours of sleep and was awakened by yet another attack. Oh, yeah and puked my guts up to boot. Not fun. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by vietvet2tours on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:14am I stole a bottle of lidocaine from the clinic and poured it up my nose. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by echo on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:28am I once got naked and stuck a traffic cone up my ass. Oh wait -- that was a party Never mind. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by pattik on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:35am Ben-Gay up the nose :o |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Gator on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:42am on 03/29/05 at 11:28:07, echo wrote:
Let's see. I believe the phrase was: Quote:
I laughed so hard when I read this that my stomach hurt. I just had to write it down for future reference! Still LMAO when I read it. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by vig on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:43am on 03/29/05 at 11:35:28, pattik wrote:
I aint never ben-gay... ;;D up the nose? :o |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by pattik on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:44am ...not that there's anything wrong with that. ;) |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by pattik on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:46am thought it would have a numbing effect on that blasted nerve >:( |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by echo on Mar 29th, 2005, 11:47am on 03/29/05 at 11:42:38, Gator wrote:
Amazed that you remembered that. Truly amazed you wrote it down for future reference. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by seasonalboomer on Mar 29th, 2005, 12:02pm Mine was actually not a "home" remedy but a remedy I tried on a vacation. I was in Germany a couple years ago and mid-cycle, but I would be damned if I was going to tour Bavaria and not drink beer. So I paid. One night after getting pasted and finally bedding down I got hit. I was still very buzzed and decided to go for a walk. We'd just had a few inches of snow and it was a winter wonderland in this little hamlet. I'm slipping around with droopy eye, and clusterhead through this little town. Along the sidewalk everyone had these little walls that had a 3 inch covering of snow. so every few houses I would lean my face into the snow pile. Stumble along a few more houses and then plant my face into another snowpile. Finally after walking around for an hour and half I realized I was still so drunk, and starting to feel nauseous, so I decorated a snow bank with my earlier imbibing and then went back to the Gasthaus we were staying at and found a way to sleep. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by PrettyH8Machine on Mar 29th, 2005, 12:05pm Man, y'all are some twisteds! Cayenne pepper up the nose? Ben-gay? Salt? Saline? And Echo, if you're running around with a traffic cone shoved up your ass, I'm a thinkin' CH isn't your biggest problem at the moment. :o LMAO, CD |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Jayne on Mar 29th, 2005, 1:25pm I have tried "Icy Hot" on the side of my face and the top of my head during an attack, which led to all sorts of shinanigans. I have tried light therapy. I have tried all sorts of crazy things |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Peppermint on Mar 29th, 2005, 1:37pm on 03/29/05 at 13:25:27, Jayne wrote:
You didn't think someone would just let this one slip by eh? ;;D I think a story is in order Jaynie- *snapping fingers to magically disappear* |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by E-Double on Mar 29th, 2005, 1:45pm on 03/29/05 at 13:25:27, Jayne wrote:
Yeah! ditto what Pep said......whattabout it "Lucky Lucy"?? [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by eyes_afire on Mar 29th, 2005, 6:24pm The 'craziest' (depending on your definition) was a large (~ 4.5 - 5 g dried) dose of shrooms. Man, you should have seen god... At least it worked... for a little while. Which is more than I can say for stuffing Cholula pepper sauce up the nose. Lesson: Burning nose doesn't rate when I have demon in my skull. --- Steve |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by echo on Mar 29th, 2005, 9:44pm on 03/29/05 at 12:05:49, PrettyH8Machine wrote:
But it was only one traffic cone. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Jayne on Mar 30th, 2005, 6:29am on 03/29/05 at 13:45:25, E-Double wrote:
I we could find the original Lucy post I would be glad to post it again for the newbies to have a laugh at...I just would know how to go about finding the thing. (the post) |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Mar 30th, 2005, 6:39am Jayne - I'll bet before the end of the day one of our resident "gurus" will have found that post. I laughed 'till I cried with that one - I sure hope it makes its way to the top of the heap again. Hugs to you, girl. Carol |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by PrettyH8Machine on Mar 30th, 2005, 7:03am ;;D Here ya go Luv... A funny thing happened to me. Rated R!!!! « from: Jayne on: Jul 28th, 2004, 10:27am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are easily offeneded, please don't read anymore. This is a true story and it happened to me about 4 years ago. I have only told a handfull of people the tale, but I thought we could all use a good laugh around here, so here goes. This story comes in 2 parts. Part 1 A few years ago I had read on the board that the use of Capsapian cream or the cream that sportsmen use for injuries, would help a clusterheadache. I read that if you applied the cream to the side of the headache it would help the pain. I ran out and and bought a tube. A couple of days later I had the chance to test it out. The beast awoke in my head. I opened up the tube and smeared some of the cream to my temple, forehead and jaw area. I got back into bed and waitied for the magic to happen. Oh my god, it made it worse if that is possible. In my pain, I used my hand to get the excess cream off my face and I wiped it on the bed sheet on the side of my bed. I kept wiping and wiping. I ran into the shower to rinse it off, then danced with the beast for the duration. End of part one. Side note. Sometimes in the throes of pain, I forget what I have done. Part2 (5 days later) I was getting ready for bed and I felt a little...errr.......tense shall we say. Being a chronically single woman, I need help to eerrr....de-stress. So I went to find my "big man in a drawer" I found him. Got into bed. I looked closely at "him" and it had a little feather on the end of it. (My down comforter is a pain). Well I couldn't be bothered to get out of bed again, so I wiped the feather off on the side of my bed sheet. So I began to ...errrrr...destress myself. This unfamiliar sensation began to take over my nether regions. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! My Lucy was on FIRE!!!!!!!! I jumped out of bed as fast as I could, clambered into the shower, turned the cold water, grabbed the shower head and tried to calm the raging flames that were taking over my woomanhood. Later, I was in my living room trying to figure out what in the hell had just happened. I called my best friend and told her the story in a shakey voice. "Karen, someone sabotaged my dildo...whaaaaaaaaaa" "I think someone must have dipped it in hot sauce whaaaaaaa" "I'm coming over" she said. Karen arrived at my house 20 minutes later with a ziplock bag and some cold yogurt. We figured it must have been the maintenance men. "I'm calling the cops in the morning" said Karen She ordered me to put the offending object into the ziplock bag. "They might be able to fingerprint it" The next morning Karen called me and reported she had indeed called the cop shop and asked if it was possible for a vibrator to be fingerprinted. I think they thought it was a prank call. Well a few days went by, I had already got a lock put on my bedroom door, and Karen still had my "man" in a bag. I was relaxing watching TV when all of a sudden it dawned on me what I had done. "Oh Shit" I called Karen and told her, and we laughed till we cried. My Lucy has never really been the same |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Frank_W on Mar 30th, 2005, 9:20am *laughing so hard, I'm cryin'!* LMAO!! |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by seasonalboomer on Mar 30th, 2005, 9:43am I'm trying to not attract attention in my office i'm laughing so hard at that one and I don't want to have to tell anyone what I'm cryin' laugin' about. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by LadyLuv on Mar 30th, 2005, 11:47am Approximately 15 years ago, I read an article (which I still have) that stated: "Treatment with capsaicin cream ended the pain for more than 80% of the 100 Cluster Headache Patients studied in three tests by Dr. Bruno Fusco, a former visting research scientist at the Univeristy of Washington.. Dr. Fusco, is also a professor of internal medicine @ the University of Rome, Italy. My first thought was Thank God.. A cure.. [smiley=bow.gif] So I rushed right out and purchased a LARGE tube of capacine (marketed under the name Zostrix) and took a cotton swab and applied it to the inside of my nostral just as the article advised me to do.. It was the only time in my all my years of CH that I felt I would rather have the CH... My nostral felt like someone had stuck a hot poker iron in it, I did a stomp and scream dance for five minutes.. That was the first and last time I put pepper in my nose.. [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif] Peace & Blessing Lady Luv |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Tiannia on Mar 30th, 2005, 12:01pm [smiley=crackup.gif] OMF Hun you had me in tears right as my supervisor came into my office. Now how am I supposed to have a professional conversation when all I can think about is your sabatoged dildo. I keep breaking into a smile everytime I start to open my mouth. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by Gator on Mar 30th, 2005, 12:42pm Thanks Carl for finding Jayne's story. I'm laughing just as hard today as when she first posted it. What an interesting life you lead, Jayne. Lady Luv, what can I say? You're not alone in doing the "stomp and scream dance." Thanks for sharing. Some of these posts are hilarious and yet sad at the same time. We do some strange and dangerous stuff to fight the beast. |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by LadyLuv on Mar 30th, 2005, 2:09pm Talking about a hot time between the sheets..[smiley=laugh.gif] Jayne I just caused the entire office to run into my office.. I was laughing so hard that I was screaming and crying all at the same time. [smiley=crackup.gif] You have made my day, no, no, you have made my week... Peace & Blessings Lady Luv |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by ghost62 on Mar 30th, 2005, 6:26pm :o :o :o [smiley=bow.gif] [smiley=bow.gif] [smiley=bow.gif] [smiley=headbanger.gif] [smiley=headbanger.gif] [smiley=headbanger.gif] [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif] [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif] [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif] [smiley=bloos.gif] [smiley=bloos.gif] [smiley=bloos.gif] now that about killed me :o :o :o |
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Title: Re: What Is The Craziest Home Remedy You've Tried? Post by j-rome on Nov 1st, 2005, 9:36pm We had a friend of the family who thought she had answers to all medical conditions. Well...being a CH sufferer, you pretty much willing to try anything. I'm not sure if your familiar with those big rubber bands with handles on the end that you can use at the gym? Anyway, she told me to hold on to the band with both hands, and stretch out my legs so the band would be under the arch of my feet. So here I am, 3 AM with my wifes work out equipment on my hard wood floor, waiting for a miracle. Well....It never came!! So word to all, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME ;;D |
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