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(Message started by: thomas on Nov 26th, 2007, 2:52pm)
Title: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thomas on Nov 26th, 2007, 2:52pm
So this Thanksgiving my wife and I went to see her family in Indiana.  Due to us both being in cycle, having the kids with us, and everybody sleeping at her aunt's house.  We decided to rent a hotel room in order to not disturb everybody thoughout the night with our "dancing".  At 2:00am I got hit, started using 4Way to abort it.  (see meds board)  Due to all of the nasal discharge, I had a mess of tissue on the floor.  After the hit was over, I scooped up all of the tissue and flushed them down the toilet.  When I got up again at 6:00 (with another hit) did the same thing.  So around 8:00 when we were getting ready to leave, I come out of the shower and notice that I only have one sock, I turned the room upside down, but to no avail.  The only thing I can surmise is that I flushed it down the toilet at some time.   ;;D
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Ray on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:03pm
In a desparate search for relief of CH, 20 years ago, I went to a pain management clinic in Columbus.  The "Dr" convinced me to get a lidocaine infusion.  Not only is this dangerous, it was totally ineffective.  The doctor was later put out of business by the IRS for tax evasion!!

The name of the doctor is available via PM if anyone is interested!

Ray
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Charlotte on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:20pm
Before I joined the board, I put 50mg crushed imitrex tablet in an oz of brandy, and was trying to get it into my system faster - It did not work.

Charlotte
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by midwestbeth on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:23pm
Driving.................Don't even try, just pull over for your and everyone else's safety.

Beth
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by plungerjoke on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:32pm
been lucky and never had to drive!
being at a loud rock concert and not leaving is my only one.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by wildhaus on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:41pm
Driving.................
every time I get hit and dont manage to abort it at work
I just jump in the car and run home.........   alone
even so they offer to drive me.......  and I state I am OK...

that is...... how stupid I get!

Michael
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by seasonalboomer on Nov 26th, 2007, 3:58pm
Walking around a little German village in the middle of the night, intoxicated, repeatedly placing my face into freshly fallen snow on the walls around people's yards until I couldn't stand it, then walking a another few houses and doing it again. I can't imagine what all the facial impressions must have looked like the next morning.    :-/

Scott
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Linda_Howell on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:06pm

 More than I care to remember, but:

1.  Standing with  my head in the freezer.

2. out of 02, had someone drive me around and around the block in the dead of winter so I could stick my head out the window for the air.  Kind of like dogs do.

3.  Banging my head(on purpose) into the corner of a hard object instead of directly straight on.

4.  while in a restaurant, going into their  bathroom instead of out to my car when I was getting hit.  The cops were called.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by George_J on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:06pm
Once, when I was eighteen, I sat--or writhed, rather--in a sun-heated car for an hour.  In August.

Must have been 140 in there.

You know how it is--try anything.  I guess I thought breathing heated air and goading myself to sweat even more than I usually do during a hit might "burn" it out of me, or "sweat out the poison".  

That was back in the days when I was convinced that I was being "poisoned" during CH attacks, and that the attacks "neutralized" the "poison".  Somehow.  And then they'd go away, until the next time.  

(When you're a kid, and on your own with this, you end up believing a lot of strange things about CH. )

I got dehydrated, but that's about it.

Doesn't work.  Trust me.

Best,

George
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Ghost on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:08pm
Alright one might notice the Goat dont smile, well have pulled 12 yep thats right 12 of my own with pliers, oragel, and cotton balls. went to feed store got horse antibiotics quartered good for 4 days each,didnt want infection.
piece of advise to anyone else who may think they want to try that DONT!!!!!  once the nerve breaks loose you know you did a bad thing. also now have 4 broken below the gum line.

Mike
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by midwestbeth on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:23pm
Thought of one more.  During a kip 10 I banged my head on the wall so hard, I knew I gave myself a regular headache on top of the ch.  Chewed up two Excedrin.


Quote:
while in a restaurant, going into their  bathroom instead of out to my car when I was getting hit.  The cops were called.


I just know this is going to happen to me one day.  Thank you Helen for the OUCH cards!  Having those with me gives me peice of mind when I am out in public.

Beth
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cynjeep89 on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:43pm
My first CH arrived when I was 13 years old.

The aspirin that I took was not working so I though I would try some Ben Gay lotion to try to ease the pain...(I know, stupid idea  :-[)  When you are desperate for pain relief you will try anything.

I used the entire tube of that crap on my head and not only did it do nothing to relieve the pain but I smelled like a locker room and looked like hell.  Took days to wash that smell outta my hair.

I have also done the head hanging out of the passenger side window of a car.

New Year's Eve party at a friend's house about 3 years ago the beast came to visit.  I escaped to the bathroom on the second floor to try to tame the beast...no luck.  To top it off, while I was getting hit, some girl was trying to sing along with the band....I swore it was Yoko Ono.

The hostess of the party found me, ran and got John and they poured me into his car so he could get me home ASAP.

It was about 20 degrees outside and there we were....John speeding down I-95 and me hanging 1/2 way out of the car.  Was really lucky I wasn't decapitated by another car.

Took hours to get all of the knots out of my hair....sheesh.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thebbz on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:43pm
After having no sucess with a few Frova tabs I misjudged the time and followed it a few hours later with a 100mg imitrex tab.
NEVER MIX TRIPTANS.
Stupidest thing I ever done. Real pukefest it was. I thought I was croakin.
thebb
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thomas on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:50pm

on 11/26/07 at 16:43:44, thebbz wrote:
After having no sucess with a few Frova tabs I misjudged the time and followed it a few hours later with a 100mg imitrex tab.
NEVER MIX TRIPTANS.
Stupidest thing I ever done. Real pukefest it was. I thought I was croakin.
thebb


Reminds me of the time I took my normal dose of sansert, then got hit about 10 mins later, so I took a trex shot, they kicked in at the same time, thought I was a goner.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by brewcrew on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:51pm

on 11/26/07 at 16:43:44, thebbz wrote:
After having no sucess with a few Frova tabs I misjudged the time and followed it a few hours later with a 100mg imitrex tab.
NEVER MIX TRIPTANS.
Stupidest thing I ever done. Real pukefest it was. I thought I was croakin.
thebb

The more clear and present danger with that is having your coronary arteries clamp so far shut that your heart muscle is starved (i.e., a heart attack).

You're probably lucky you puked.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thebbz on Nov 26th, 2007, 4:55pm
Better out than in. ;)
thebb
amazing what THAT pain will make you do.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by vietvet2tours on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:05pm

on 11/26/07 at 16:55:08, thebbz wrote:
Better out than in. ;)
thebb
amazing what THAT pain will make you do.


Caused you to move back to this hell hole called Montana?

      Potter

             
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Racer1_NC on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:06pm
I don't think this qualifies as stupid.....just funny. While at the OUCH conference in Richmond I felt one coming on in the meeting room. I quickly grabbed my O2 tank, ducked in to the nearest bathroom, and headed for a stall. The O2 worked it's magic and stepped from the stall to the stares of several businessmen who I assume thought Darth Vader had been occupying the last stall. I just smiled and walked out.  ;;D

B
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by brewcrew on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:16pm

on 11/26/07 at 17:06:26, Racer1_NC wrote:
I don't think this qualifies as stupid.....just funny. While at the OUCH conference in Richmond I felt one coming on in the meeting room. I quickly grabbed my O2 tank, ducked in to the nearest bathroom, and headed for a stall. The O2 worked it's magic and stepped from the stall to the stares of several businessmen who I assume thought Darth Vader had been occupying the last stall. I just smiled and walked out.  ;;D

B

They were laughing at that long piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Racer1_NC on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:20pm

on 11/26/07 at 17:16:15, brewcrew wrote:
They were laughing at that long piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe.


LOL...could be.  :D
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by PollyPocket on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:30pm
anyone who's been on topey can give you an arms length list of stupid stuff!

Me?  nearly burned the house down cuz I forgot that I put an empty pan on the stove and turned it on. But the best (worst) was sitting in my car completely unable to get out of the seat- I couldn't figure out how to unlatch the seat belt.  :o
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Linda_Howell on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:42pm
Not mine but Cluster Chucks:

 
Quote:
Why my WINKY ?? ?? - Updated
« on: Jun 23rd, 2005, 10:08am »  Quote  Modify  

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Ok, I know this is a caring and compassionate group, and we can relate things without any snide, or uncalled for remarks.  RIGHT ?? ??  I know Drummer posted of his, somewhat similar, unfortunate experience, a long time ago.  He spoke of needing a safety kit, to protect himself.  He may be right.

As you all know, I get hit fairly often.  Many times, if I am downstairs in the living room, and there are visitors here, when I get hit, I grab my oxygen mask and then run into the half bath with it, so I can be in privacy.  Many times I sit on the throne and bounce and rock around.  In doing this, I cracked and broke the toilet seat, in the front, so that there is a split, and with pressure, it opens up.  I have been meaning to replace that seat.  I AM GOING TO DO THAT TODAY !! !! !!

WELL, let me relate what happened today.  A co-worker stopped by to see how I am doing, as I have missed so much work, of late.  I just had on a pair of gym shorts, as I had not gotten dressed yet.  Naturally, the beast made a call.  I turned on the oxygen, grabbed my mask and made a bee line for the bathroom.  While in there, I felt I had another bodily function to do, so I dropped my drawers and sat down.  I did what I had to do, but continued to sit there, rocking, while dealing with the beast.

While rocking, I slid forward on the seat, the gap opened up, and YUP, my dangling “best part” got into that gap, and when I rocked, it pinched it, HARD !! !! !!  Well, I jumped up, screaming, and when I lifted my weight off the seat, the gap closed completely, with a VERY important part of me still in it!  When I jumped up, and the gap closed, the seat proceeded to rip a hunk of skin on my poor ole winky.  I started to jump around holding my injured part, and proceeded to trip on my shorts, that were at my ankles. That caused me to fall into the door, causing it to fly open, smashing my nose, and falling out into the kitchen.

So there I am, rolling, naked, on the floor, screaming, with one hand on my groin, covered in blood, the other hand on my nose, also covered in blood, with my co-worker staring in absolute horror at me, trying VERY hard not to laugh, not knowing what to do, as he has been warned, DO NOT GO NEAR ME, OR TOUCH ME when I am getting hit !! !! !!

I think my winky is out of commission for a while ... Like it makes a difference ...

The good thing is, during this process, the beast left.  The problem is, do I think I could repeat this procedure several times a day, to kill a hit?  Hmm mm mm ... I am not sure I want to try it again.

Where is that safety kit?

Chuck
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cynjeep89 on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:50pm
Winky Abuse!!!!
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Ray on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:54pm
Poor Chuck!

Ouchie!
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Gena on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:56pm
Stupid thing ch has made me do?

Does spend the night with a man who flushes his sock down the toilet count? :-*
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thomas on Nov 26th, 2007, 5:58pm

on 11/26/07 at 17:56:43, Gena wrote:
Stupid thing ch has made me do?

Does spend the night with a man who flushes his sock down the toilet count? :-*

You're lucky I can barely move right now. ;)
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Melissa on Nov 26th, 2007, 6:04pm
I would have been more concerned if it was his underwear. ;;D
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cynjeep89 on Nov 26th, 2007, 6:09pm
And all of this time Gena was blaming your missing socks on the dryer!

Mystery solved.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by gore2424 on Nov 26th, 2007, 6:14pm
When got hit hard used to sit, lay, & roll around on water bed then repeatedly hit left elbow funny bone on wooden bed frame well after months of that my left hand and fingers were starting to go numb so had to have an operation to move the ulner nerve in elbow and many many times in garage I would hit big toes with a big hammer to direct pain some where else wifey caught me many times and yelled at me oh well Terry
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Tiannia on Nov 26th, 2007, 6:50pm
Given drving as got to be the dumbest thing that I have ever done.

I was working at an engineering firm when these started.  The people htere used to freek out when I would get hit and I woud grab one of the huge board center rings of the ARch and mylar paper and repeatedly beat myself in the head with them.  
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Linda_Howell on Nov 26th, 2007, 7:14pm

    Drummers:


Quote:
Posted by drummer on May 15, 1999 at 12:18:09:

OK, since I have gotten to know you people over the course of the past several months, I think I can now open up and bare my soul to you; so to speak. I trust you guys. Anyone who doesn’t suffer from cluster headaches or supports someone who has clusters; please close this window right away.

Okee Dokee. Now that we are alone, I shall bare my soul. I’ll start at the end of my story, then jump to the beginning and then work my way to the end again. I am trusting that none of you will laugh, make fun or talk about me behind my back. I trust that you will keep this, “our little secret”.

My wife has just purchased me a cluster headache “safety kit”. (This is the end of the story). The kit contains, one pair of safety eye goggles, a jock strap with cup and a small flashlight.

Now. The beginning of my story. Like some of you, I have been getting my cluster attacks at 3:00am. This is a bad time for me because usually I am sound asleep. My mental sharpness is somewhat dull at this time in the morning.

My normal procedure for dealing with a cluster headache is to simply swallow two Ercaf pills, then turn my Oxygen tank to the “on” position. I then take the Oxygen mask, which I keep hanging on the tank for easy accessibility, and place it on my face and breathe, rock my body and quietly moan while sitting on the sofa in our living room. The Oxygen mask is fitted with a convenient elastic band to hold the mask in place on my face. This leaves my hands and arms free to flail about and hit my head and bang on the coffee table. I have performed this simple routine approximately, 8,286 times in the past 15 years.

Well, the other day at 3:00am, this simple routine took a turn for the worse. I was rudely awakened by the Demon in my head. This caused me to jump from the bed, naked, and run down the stairs to my Ercaf and Oxygen. Swallowing the Ercaf did not pose a problem. It was my fight with the Oxygen tank and mask that was quite unsettling. You see, I had no problem turning the Oxygen on. But, I had some difficulty grabbing the mask from the tank.

It seems that the elastic band on the mask got stuck on the handle of the Oxygen tank. I don’t know what it’s like at 3:00am where you live, but where I live it’s really, really dark. I couldn’t see and I really didn’t have time to fully assess the situation with my stuck Oxygen mask. I couldn’t figure out why the mask didn’t want to be placed on my face. So, I just pulled as hard as I could. I now realize that this was a mistake. The elastic band, rather quickly, came unstuck from the Oxygen tank. The elastic band rebounded off the tank and snapped “Mr. Winky”. This is the name I have given to my “you-know-what”.

I’ve found that whenever “Mr. Winky” is injured it causes me to double over fairly fast. Doubling over on this particular day caused me to poke my eye on the Oxygen tank’s handle. The pulling of the mask also made the little plastic tube that joins the tank with the mask break free from the mask. The mask had now become useless. Being rather resourceful, I immediately shoved the tube into my left nostril and found my favorite place to sit on our sofa. My hands that are normally free to flail about were now used to hold “Mr. Winky” and my right eye.

I guess I made quite a commotion. My wife, who knows not to visit me during a cluster headache, now, paid me a visit. Seeing me naked on the sofa with an Oxygen tube in my nose and holding “Mr. Winky” with one hand and my eye with the other, caused her to ask me, “What are you doing”? Still suffering the cluster headache, I had just enough energy to lift my head and politely grunt. The next day my wife purchased me the Cluster Headache Safety Kit. I think I now deserve to be a member of O.U.C.H.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by john_d on Nov 26th, 2007, 7:20pm
 Once I unloaded an entire truck full of lumber on a forklift, when I was unloading the truck drivers were making jokes at me, I didn't notice but the yard guy saw my contorted face and tears and runny nose and he thought I was crying?  yeah right.      

I was a plane captain in the Navy and I led a fully active P3, a good sized aircraft with 4 props, into a parking space while getting hit.   Now that was just dumb.  
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Rosybabe on Nov 26th, 2007, 7:21pm
I was having a bad hit in my college dorm late one night and I got up went to the sink (inside the room and put cold water all over my face and then I rest my head against the mirror (I probably hit it harder than I think) when I stood up the mirror came down but I could not see it because all the water falling of my face and the edge of the mirror landed on my nose cutting it about 1/2 inch and deep, with all the water and the blood I look like someone beat the hell out of me plus CH.
I went and woke up  my roomate and she screamed like she had seen jason from the movie ...I had to explain all that to the Doctor and the people at college..not nice at all..
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by jimmers on Nov 26th, 2007, 7:27pm
One time after a softball game, I was at the bar celebrating and the beast came calling. I didn't know alcohol was a trigger at the time because I didn't know what Ch were. Anyway I asked my Mom if she had any aspirin (She owned the bar). She handed me a bottle of aspirin and I took about 30 of them at one time. Bad move! My stomach was in knots for 2 days!

Jimmers
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cash5542 on Nov 26th, 2007, 7:37pm
Last summer Lisa and I were window shopping on a Sat. in July in Lewes Deleware. This has to be one of the quaintest little beach towns on the East coast ,however peak tourism in the summer. Lisa got a hit and I dropped the closed redbull trying to open it. Forgetting it was carbonated I picked it up and opened it and it exploded allover everything and everyone within 10 feet. This included random tourists. In the meantime Lisa was banging her head on a parking meter loooking for any releif.  With Redbull gone and EVERYONE watching us I felt a sense of panic. I looked up and we were standing in front of a coffee shop.  Fortunately the owner was a migraine sufferer and gave Lisa 2 cups of the the strongest ice coffee she had. She was so amazed at Lisa's total relief 10 min. later. All ended well!
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by kimh on Nov 26th, 2007, 8:22pm
Oh mhy lessee..........

I have stuck my head in the freezer in a frenzy sucking cold wind.  I've guzzled coffee rapid fire to head awf the beast, i've begged my kids to "call dad'" ,HEAD HIM OFF AT THE PASS WARN HIM - they know he will not reach home in timefor "the dance".

if you knew someone who sprints to the feezer mid-conversation, to frantically grab frozen peas...............you see their face......you know the deal.  If you told anyone they'd not understand the  nutsnis of it ..........so you don't.  You only watch as you know this person over and over who does this STUFF TO  OUTRUN THE PAIN.  Andyou love them.

Okay.  I've stoodon my head waving my legs back and forth with frozen peas stuck to my eyeball and cursing the entire world that has afflicted me WHY ME!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess i'm special :)
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by purpleydog on Nov 26th, 2007, 9:46pm
This is just kind of interesting.

I was at work a couple months ago, had been in a bad cycle, and started to get hit. I reached into my purse, got out a vial of trex, and a syringe, popped the top off, and filled the syringe. All while my boss was at his desk about 5 feet away from me.

I gave myself a shot, while he was watching me, and put the syringe away. I looked over at him, and said I had a migraine (I didn't want to get into the CH discussion/ explanation), and he said he didn't even notice, he wasn't paying attention. His wife is a diabetic, and she gave herself shots all the time. So, it was no big deal. He didn't say another word, and neither did I.

One neat thing, I was visiting a friend back in April, and went into a monster cycle from hell. I'd go out onto the deck for the cool air, I couldn't see, trex was barely working, O2 wasn't helping. When I'd come back in, the cat would lead the way from the sliding glass doors, to the bedroom, so I could hit the O2 anyway. The cat made sure I got there safe. I thought that was very cool. I could open my eyes just enough to see the cat.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by rolo65 on Nov 26th, 2007, 10:44pm
Driving home from Duluth hoping the spare E tank would get me there while my coworker (without a valid DL) was keeping me from driving off the road. It’s hard to steer with your knee, hold the mask with the right hand, dig a hole in your left temple, see with your right eye, and no hand left to hold the hanky. ;;D

I’ll bet I could find a way to smoke if I had to. [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cynjeep89 on Nov 26th, 2007, 10:51pm
PD,

It is amazing to see how animals react when they can tell we are in pain.

Every dog that I have had since I started with CHs 37 years ago has always stayed nearby me right before and during a hit.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Charlie on Nov 26th, 2007, 11:20pm
I used to push around some kitchen furniture in the dark with the window open in a blizzard but that's nothing unusual for clusterheads. Getting hit while doing the Ann Arbor flea market....It's huge and one of the best...is no fun, especially when it happened in August. It's the only time I had a summer cycle.

Charlie
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Groov on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:10am

on 11/26/07 at 16:43:31, cynjeep89 wrote:
 To top it off, while I was getting hit, some girl was trying to sing along with the band....I swore it was Yoko Ono.



That can easily trigger an attack. Yoko's singing can also summons terradactyl birds, cause blindness and inner ear infections.

You were lucky to get out before any permanent damage occurred.  [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by purpleydog on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:32am

on 11/26/07 at 22:51:26, cynjeep89 wrote:
PD,

It is amazing to see how animals react when they can tell we are in pain.

Every dog that I have had since I started with CHs 37 years ago has always stayed nearby me right before and during a hit.



I agree with you, cyn. My dogs always knew when I was in pain. And now the cats do.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by George_J on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:34am

on 11/26/07 at 22:51:26, cynjeep89 wrote:
PD,

It is amazing to see how animals react when they can tell we are in pain.

Every dog that I have had since I started with CHs 37 years ago has always stayed nearby me right before and during a hit.


That's interesting.

The cats who live here do just the opposite when I get hit.  They run away and hide.

'Course, I don't blame them.  I'm usually....not myself.

Cats don't like anything weird.

Best,

George
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by purpleydog on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:48am

on 11/27/07 at 00:10:45, Groov wrote:
That can easily trigger an attack. Yoko's singing can also summons terradactyl birds, cause blindness and inner ear infections.

You were lucky to get out before any permanent damage occurred.  [smiley=laugh.gif]


And I always thought she was singing soprano.  [smiley=yikes.gif]

(Speaking of fingernails on a chalkboard...)
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by kcopelin on Nov 27th, 2007, 5:19am
driving myself to ER with bag of frozen peas held to right eye-at 3 a.m.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by cash5542 on Nov 27th, 2007, 6:53am
We call our golden retriever, Maddie our cluster puppy. She was only 3 months old when Lisa came home this summer. She would sit by Lisa everytime she had a hit, sometimes putting her head on her lap and sometimes licking the o2 tank, she was just there. Same thing happens when Lisa is usig the nebulizer for asthma. Animals are so amazing and such a comfort!

Charlotte
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by zwibbs/Scott on Nov 27th, 2007, 7:06am
4.  while in a restaurant, going into their  bathroom instead of out to my car when I was getting hit.  The cops were called.
Linda, that very same thing happened to me. I was out with another couple and I felt it coming on, then it hit  like a bomb. I went into the Men's room and stayed there for almost two hours. I became so anxious that it just kept me in the hit. Even when I left I was not out of it. This was so bad, that I never, ever go out when I'm in a cycle.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by barry_sword on Nov 27th, 2007, 7:12am
I drove twice, my first and last! :o I was using some of my Nascar skills almost using my front bumper on the car ahead of me to get to my home 3 minutes from my work.
I look back at that and feel bad for the poor souls looking at this crazy man behind them right on their back bumper.

I now have an "E" portable tank with me.  ;;D
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Ray on Nov 27th, 2007, 10:33am
I have another stupid thing I've done...  About 15 years ago, I went to the ER with a Kip 10.  They only offered IV thorazine.  It didn't really help, just detatched the higher mental processes from my brain.  Then they let me drive home.  I don't remember the drive home.  There was no damage to the car, so I assume I didn't kill anyone on the way.  I got there, Shade put me to bed.  I fell out of bed several times and did NOT wake up.  I slept for 18 hours.  That was the last time I went to the ER with a headache.

Ray    :o
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Jill on Nov 27th, 2007, 11:32am
Wow.. stupid things I have done. There are s many of them.:o

I have driven during attacks before, there are too many times where I have almost hit a tree, a pole or even a parked car to count. I am very cautious now when I drive and I know all of the places to pull over. Not a good idea to do.

And I have done the sticking my head in the freezer, left my roommates wondering what the heck was wrong with me. I have even run outside and stuck my head in the fresh snow. I used to love frozen peas but they get kind of gross after awhile and I tend to rip the bags. Now they just are not that effective.

I have also banged on everything in sight - tables, walls, dressers and usually I bang on the edge versus on the flat part. And it is not just my head I bang but my fish and foot to - left a big bruise on my wrist last week. It is so dumb because I know that it will hurt later and leave a mark but at the time, I could care less.

Another bad time was when Marty took me to the ER and they tried to do the lidocaine up my nose. I think that people in the waiting room could hear me scream. Anything up my nose is a big trigger and makes any head much worse.

Which makes this my worst experience or one of the dumbest things that I have done is to snort hot pepper. I do NOT recommend that treatment for anyone to ever try. It took me from the verge of a KIP 10 to so bad that I thought for sure I was a goner.

I have done a lot more dumb things too - I guess that when in the throws of pain... well... we will do about anything. Some of them are funny when it is done and over with though.  ;)

Jill
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by sandie99 on Nov 27th, 2007, 11:43am
Stupid thing.... Hmm, I must have had this beast for too short time, because I cannot think of any that stupid things.

I have, of course, hold ice cubes/many other cold things next to my eye. I have pulled my hair so much, that when one hair expert said that I have lost plenty of hair, I wasn't least of bit surpriced. I haven't banged my head to the wall that often, but during my uni halls stay here in Jyväskylä I used the floor; I figured that it would upset my flatmates less... :-X

I did nearly faint during a journey at London Underground and got out of the train feeling dreadful and seeing next to nothing - I must have look like CHit, because all the people who were coming to the tune gave me room as I left! [smiley=laugh.gif]

Sanna
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by lashultz on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:18pm
I have done a lot of stupid things . The most recent was during a high cycle. We drove to South Dakota for a few days and I felt bad because the O2 was taking up so much space in the Trail Blazer. I left it home. Very bad move.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by thomas on Nov 27th, 2007, 12:59pm
Then there was the time I tried to abort with THC.... Bad move.  Turned a 7 into a 10, and I was in for one hell of a ride.
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Mosaicwench on Nov 27th, 2007, 1:09pm

on 11/27/07 at 12:18:43, lashultz wrote:
I have done a lot of stupid things . The most recent was during a high cycle. We drove to South Dakota for a few days and I felt bad because the O2 was taking up so much space in the Trail Blazer. I left it home. Very bad move.


Oh Lee . . indeed a very bad move.  When it comes to a choice between room for O2 tanks and room for children, the tanks ALWAYS win . . .
;)
Title: Re: Stupid things you've done with CH.
Post by Paul98 on Nov 27th, 2007, 1:24pm

on 11/26/07 at 16:06:06, Linda_Howell wrote:
 
1.  Standing with  my head in the freezer.


LOL.  

Two of my best are standing IN a -40 walk in freezer with only a light "t" shirt and jeans for as long as I could stand it. ~12 min and when I walked out with purple lips and fingers and racked with shivers muttering how good that felt.....having a group of students look at me is if I was the dumbest person on the planet.

Next best was getting hit while driving back from my camp.  I waited to long to take the trex and I was so crazed by the time I pulled into a gas station I just wipped out the syringe and went to jab myself only to notice ~6-8 little Boy Scout faces  looking in at the crazy junkie shooting up.  This was also the time I was in such haste I hit a vein and ended up main lining the trex.  Fastest and most horrifying abort I ever had!

-P.


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