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(Message started by: swimchica623 on Nov 25^th, 2006, 6:55pm)

Title: college students?
Post by swimchica623 on Nov 25^th, 2006, 6:55pm

Not quite sure if I picked up on this in my intro post (and if I did and forgot, I blame it on the topamax!!!) but how many college students are there out on the boards? From the cluster statistics I guess you are also girls/women/ladies whatever you call yourselves in your 20s...but any other college/grad school even high schoolers about to enter exam times? Just wondering so we can offer each other some support. I'm enjoying some oh so thrilling work after missing a lot of class being hospitalized from a long cycle filled with days and days of kip 10s and just curious if anyone is in the same boat/has been in the same boat before..anxious about a cycle coming during exam week and the like. I have 2 weeks of class an 1 week of exams... but I only have one exam this year everything else is papers.
So come on students, step right up!!!

Title: Re: college students?
Post by E-Double on Nov 25^th, 2006, 7:34pm

You'll be fine!!!
I had these in college and gradschool and will surely have them when I go onto my doctorate.
We have them and manage to work and lead successful lives and fulfill many dreams despite the pain.
You'll be fine!!!

Have your emergency strategies and educate your professors to CH so they do not think you just have a headache or are a slacker.
You'll be fine!

Keep telling yourself that and guess what.........
You will be ;)

Title: Re: college students?
Post by swimchica623 on Nov 25^th, 2006, 7:56pm

oooh PhD? in what? im a senior...im a history/classics major so thats actually kidna silly to jump into grad school for those degrees, im going to get my masters in education and teach....poor little kiddies hehehe. ive been a swim coach for awhile and thats kinda like teaching and a LOVE it.
my profs have been good so far. one ive had 4 times and she was around when i was having major asthma trouble, its an independent study too...my german professor has a little boy who gets migraines so he is understanding, not quite the same but its he's little boy, and my last professor i havent missed any classes for!!! its in afternoon class at a time that i dont get any hits and even during this last cycle i got then for three days before the hosptial, one in the morning then i went to the class, then i had one after the class, then i went to the hospital and i would have missed it if it wasnt for thanksgiving break! its only once a week, on wednesdays. i only have 2 more of them so im lucky.
thanks for your post, it made me feel better but it REAAAAALLY made my mom feel better. :-)

Title: Re: college students?
Post by brewcrew on Nov 25^th, 2006, 7:56pm

I went to college once. I gave them A LOT of money. Some of it I even had to borrow. They gave me a piece of paper. Only afterward did I learn that it was not a good trade.

I started getting cluster headaches after college. Hmmmm. Maybe I got a piece of paper AND cluster headaches. REALLY, REALLY not a good trade.

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Jonny on Nov 25^th, 2006, 8:16pm

I went four years to trade school, now I own my own company and have a HA when ever the hell I feel like it.......LOL ;;D

Title: Re: college students?
Post by jimmers on Nov 25^th, 2006, 8:21pm

I'm a professor at Drunken State University ;;D

Welcome aboard!

Jimmers

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Kevin_M on Nov 25^th, 2006, 8:33pm

I didn't have clusters yet but had to skip most of high school lying pain free out in the back parking lot.

summer school was a pain though.

Title: Re: college students?
Post by swimchica623 on Nov 25^th, 2006, 9:09pm

oh, my...im glad edouble answered first...skipping high school, drunken university.....

I GRADUATED FIRST IN MY CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND IM SET TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE WITH HONORS AND I LOVE SCHOOL AND I'M A FREAKIN OVER ACHIEVER AND I'M PROOOOOOOOOOUD OF IT!!!!!!!!!!

that's all. [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: college students?
Post by brewcrew on Nov 25^th, 2006, 9:12pm

Do they teach humility at your school? ;;D

Title: Re: college students?
Post by swimchica623 on Nov 25^th, 2006, 9:15pm

ya, that happened the first time i didnt get an A.
uuuhhh...whats this mark??? but, alas, i guess thats an inevitable part of college. ;)

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Jonny on Nov 25^th, 2006, 9:20pm

on 11/25/06 at 18:55:01, swimchica623 wrote:

I'm enjoying some oh so thrilling work after missing a lot of class being hospitalized from a long cycle filled with days and days of kip 10s and just curious if anyone is in the same boat/has been in the same boat before

Yeah, Ive been in that boat. started out chronic at 12 years old, im now 44.

Kip 10's.....you have no idea what Kip 10's are in the long run!

If your here supporting in six months I will be surprised!

Title: Re: college students?
Post by vietvet2tours on Nov 26^th, 2006, 9:48am

on 11/25/06 at 21:09:03, swimchica623 wrote:

Well ain't we special

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Callico_Kid on Nov 26^th, 2006, 10:39am

I'm the one who made the top two thirds of my high school class possible. In college I didn't graduate Cum Laude, I graduated How Come Lordy? . ;;D

My clusters didn't start until two yrs after college.

jc

Title: Re: college students?
Post by sandie99 on Nov 26^th, 2006, 12:05pm

I'm working on my Masters in journalism. :)

Sanna

Title: Re: college students?
Post by TomM on Nov 26^th, 2006, 4:01pm

Hi Swim.
Are you in school @ Salisbury State?

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Paul98 on Nov 26^th, 2006, 4:25pm

on 11/25/06 at 20:16:19, Jonny wrote:

I went four years to trade school, now I own my own company and have a HA when ever the hell I feel like it.......LOL ;;D

FUCKINABRO!

Posterchild for the americian dream!

-P.

Title: Re: college students?
Post by Kate in Oz on Nov 28^th, 2006, 6:45am

Hey Swimchica623,

I'm at University in Australia (mature age) and always start a cycle right at the begining of semester! Luckily (fingers crossed) I've got a bit of a handle on the beast at the moment and the past few cycles haven't been too bad.... but do as E-Double said, let your lecturers/tutors know what you're dealing with!

Mine have been very understanding to date - I gave them a copy of the letter to employers which explains CH and since then they always give me extensions etc when required.

Good luck with your papers. I handed in my last one (studying philosophy) a week ago.... ahhh the relief.

Take it easy and I hope you get some pain free time real soon,

Kate

Title: Re: college students?
Post by marlinsfan on Nov 28^th, 2006, 7:42am

Hey Chica, like Ex2, I had these from before college, right through grad school and many years since. I'm doing just fine now (except for the darn headaches that keep coming around every year or so).

Arm yourself with your abortives, and I would recommend you to get off the dopeymax if you want to do well in your exams. I got very dopey while I was on it, and I couldn't think of taking a test while taking that crap.

Back in my day, I used to study with a drink called Jolt (anyone remember that one?). I was marketed as having twice the sugar and caffeine as regular coke. Looking back on it, I can see how my HAs would stay away while I was studying, given all that caffeine I was sucking down!

Good luck with your exams. Keep us posted.
Jose