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(Message started by: Lissa on Nov 25^th, 2006, 1:23pm)

Title: clusters following pregnancy
Post by Lissa on Nov 25^th, 2006, 1:23pm

Is it common to get an episode of clusters right after a pregnancy? I didn't get any during my pregnancy and right after I delivered (the following day) I got hit and have been getting hit since. Is this normal?

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by E-Double on Nov 25^th, 2006, 1:59pm

Congratulations!!
I had them throughout and after my pregnancy ;)
I think like everything else it all depends.
Some women have found that they did not and others got slammed immediately after.

Good luck and best wishes.

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by lionsound on Nov 25^th, 2006, 2:41pm

on 11/25/06 at 13:59:37, E-Double wrote:

I had them throughout and after my pregnancy ;)

Get out! No way! Me too! ;;D

Hi Lissa,
Yes, I really did too. Whether or not hormones play a part in your clusters normally, they may play a role now because your body has gone though a trauma..a shock of sorts and needs to regroup itself.
My baby(#3) is now 10 mos old and i took a harsher pounding than usual after he was born. (I get migraines and CH)I also think sleep deprivation is a big factor too. Oxygen is my friend. :)

Congratulations, Mommy! :D
Be well and PF!
-Rori

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by BB on Nov 25^th, 2006, 4:23pm

Are you breast feeding ?

Some women who breast feed seem to have less trouble with CH post natal.

Congratulation on the birth of your baby though :)

Annette

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by Tata on Nov 27^th, 2006, 9:04am

Hi Lissa
Sorry to hear you're getting hit so soon, but maybe it's a blessing in disguise. With all 4 of my children, I breast-fed and never got hit until my period returned @ around 10 months or so. I used to think maybe it would have been better to get hit when they were new-borns just because they still sleep so much of the time, rather than get hit when they were crawling (my one year old actually started walking at 9 months) and starting to get into everything. I guess any way you look at it, there's never a "better" time to get these damn things. And, like Rori, oxygen is my friend too. I don't know what I would have done w/out it. Take care.
Tata
Modified to add: I forgot to add the most important thing--Congratulations on your new baby!!!!!!!

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by Lissa on Nov 27^th, 2006, 10:10am

Thanks for all your congratulations and responses. I've been getting hit almost every morning. They aren't so bad though. Probably a 2 on the KIP. But they just linger all day so I've been taking imitrex to abort them which helps. I'm also taking verapamil again. I hope it starts working soon because I hate these headaches. :( I am not breastfeeding anymore because I got hit with post partum depression and had to take medication that wasn't okay with nursing. Again, thanks for all your responses.

Title: Re: clusters following pregnancy
Post by vig on Nov 27^th, 2006, 10:20am

Congratulations!!

good luck!

but like EE, I don't know about the pain part.
:(