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(Message started by: roger on Mar 14^th, 2005, 6:47am)

Title: found by accident
Post by roger on Mar 14^th, 2005, 6:47am

:)after suffering for nearly 40yrs i came across pain relief by accident, after trying steriods and amatripterlin without success i was having a very bad attack one night and out of desperation came across some strong pain killers in the medicine cabinate took two as perscribed and the pain was eased in ten minutes, carried on taking them every four hours and to my amazment no more pain. not a cure but instant relief hope this works for somone else

Title: Re: found by accident
Post by judkins on Mar 14^th, 2005, 8:54am

HI roger... really pleased you found some relief after so many years. They must have been strong ones. Hope you continue to have pain free days and nights. ;)

Title: Re: found by accident
Post by jokrs2 on Mar 14^th, 2005, 4:47pm

Welcome Roger.
At first I felt a bit of pain relief when my doctor put me on morphine sulfate and/or methadone 14 years ago thinking I just had migraines. But then I developed resistance and eventually the opioids were NO help at all. I know it helped you but narcotic addiction is just an additional problem and as your dosage wears off rebound headaches will probably add more pain to the clusters. And of course, withdrawal is a hoot!:o I wish you luck my friend and pain free days & nights. Joe

Title: Re: found by accident
Post by pubgirl on Mar 15^th, 2005, 6:15pm

Roger

I'm glad they help you but most people who have Ch find painkillers of any kind useless, and often damaging.

It is a shame no-one gave you the correct treatment for CH at any point during your long years of suffering.

I would urge any new people reading this to avoid painkillers and focus on the treatments that actually work

Wendy