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(Message started by: berszoo on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 1:37pm)

Title: Is climate a factor?
Post by berszoo on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 1:37pm

Hello!

I've been a sufferer for 8 years, read this site regularly. Of course there is no treatment. But since the cluster is related to the hippotalamus, I was wondering. Where the climate is always the same (like tropical), is cluster the same? Maybe your body does not have to accomodate to the ever changing wheather. Does anybody have experience with moving to a different continent, and having no more headaches?

Zoltan Beres
Hungary

Title: Re: Is climate a factor?
Post by zrmulcahy on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 5:58pm

I have heard that cluster has a higher incidence further from the equator. It doesn't have to do with the climate per se they think. Instead it has to do with the pattern of days getting longer or shorter, which has less variation closer to the equator. The hypothalamus is involved in the daily rhythm of the body; perhaps adjusting to different day lengths stresses it out.

Title: Re: Is climate a factor?
Post by Jonny on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 6:08pm

You got a fucked up brain....get over and deal with it....why ask why? ;;D

Title: Re: Is climate a factor?
Post by jokrs2 on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 9:16pm

Jonny lives "far" from the equator... ;;D

Tattoo anyone ? 8)

Title: Re: Is climate a factor?
Post by floridian on Apr 3^rd, 2005, 10:55pm

Less change in daylength through the year is good for some episodics. Heat is a trigger for some. The best place to live is Ecuador, where they have glaciers on the equator.

http://www.med-owl.com/clusterheadaches/tiki-index.php?page=Latitude