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(Message started by: outwitt on Dec 26^th, 2006, 11:30pm)

Title: Residuals
Post by outwitt on Dec 26^th, 2006, 11:30pm

22 Years into this.... Its profile changed on me two years ago.
Previous winter-time episodes........switched to June.......along with an uptick in allergies and sinus congestion.
IgE elevated to 800.

New this year........not one, but two episodes; the latter peaked at some pretty high Kip #'s.......I'm left with a periodic "shadow" or residual pain where the devil did his dance. Not intense; nor daily; just there for a month now.

Anyone experienced a post-CH residual?
I'm off to the allergist soon to get these swollen sinuses dealt with!

Stay well out there!

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by swimchica623 on Dec 27^th, 2006, 11:34am

yeah i get residiual pain as well as some shadows. i also have a sunburn feeling and numbness in the area. i have bad allergies and severe asthma with a high IgE number..I'm on xolair. i just had sinus surgery last week i'm hoping that's gonna bring some releif! trying not to put my hopes up tooooo high because ive heard its done squat for some i know at the least its gonna help my sinuses though.
pf days for you. :-)
Lisa

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by BigCoffinHunter on Dec 27^th, 2006, 12:00pm

Yup, about halfway through my cycle my hits get so bad that after the hit ends, the whole one side of my head aches for a good six hours. It's sore and tender with a pain around a kip7. Not a cluster, but just feeling like I got kicked in the face by a horse. It's awful.
My neuro had me start taking 4 Aleve before bed so that the pain killer would be in my system ahead of time (just for the residuals, not the clusters). That did help quite a bit.

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by mynm156 on Dec 27^th, 2006, 2:08pm

I too have this and I thin that this is pretty common to us. It really wipes me out onn days were I am getting abused by the beast. Every so often he has to remind me that he can make me his bitch anytime.

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by BigCoffinHunter on Dec 27^th, 2006, 6:38pm

In some ways the residuals (I like that term, I've always referred to them as 'hangover headaches', like the CH gave me a hangover, but that doesn't translate well to normal folks) are almost as bad as the CH. The pain's not as focused and intense, but it's more than enough to ruin sleep for the night. Lack of sleep is what takes its toll on me the worst.

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by sailpappy on Dec 27^th, 2006, 6:40pm

;;D ;;DI have always suffered residual pain in one upper area on my skullcap. Kind of feels like its bruised and also I have a lingering nueralgia on the cheek bone under my eye on the affected side,
Being chronic: its a little different I think, since I have a sort of cycle within my normal daily pattern. It seems to be only present when I increase from my average of 6 to 7 hits a day (3 usually at night) into the 10 to 12 a day range.
I also find that after my attacks, it takes about 20 to 30 minutes to regain normalsy, I kind of have to rest from the effort it takes physically to endure the hits.
Ok I'm babbling again!
Pappy
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Title: Re: Residuals
Post by BigCoffinHunter on Dec 27^th, 2006, 6:59pm

Holy friggin crap, I cannot even imagine that many hits a day. Man you have my serious respect for being able to deal with that.

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by Ob1kanobee on Dec 27^th, 2006, 11:40pm

I had residual pain from an attack that lasted several hours. I was trying for the first time not to take any pain medication. I drank a Red bull before the attack.

I finally broke down and drank a Coke with a Goody's Powder and that residual pain went away in less than an hour completely.

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by Ob1kanobee on Dec 28^th, 2006, 4:57am

Has anyone ever tried breathing o2 for residual pain? Or would that plain just be waisting o2?

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by Sandy_C on Dec 28^th, 2006, 1:14pm

on 12/27/06 at 18:40:05, sailpappy wrote:

Being chronic: its a little different I think, since I have a sort of cycle within my normal daily pattern. It seems to be only present when I increase from my average of 6 to 7 hits a day (3 usually at night) into the 10 to 12 a day range.

Pappy

Pappy, you have my utmost respect and admiration! I'm thankfully episodic with 2 hits on a good day, and 4 hits on a bad day with 18 to 24 MONTHS of pain free time between cycles. I cannot even pretend to imagine how I would cope with your number of hits every single day, 24/7/365.

I wish that there were some way that I could give you some of my pain free time.

Sandy

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by TonyG1 on Dec 28^th, 2006, 5:16pm

[quote author=sailpappy link=board=chspecific;num=1167193842;start=0#5 date=12/27/06 at 18:40:05] ;;D ;; Being chronic: its a little different I think, since I have a sort of cycle within my normal daily pattern. It seems to be only present when I increase from my average of 6 to 7 hits a day (3 usually at night) into the 10 to 12 a day range.
Pappy
[/quote]

Pappy -- Ditto on what everyone else has said ... you have my utmost respect and make me feel lucky to be episodic with PF breaks of about 24 months

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by sailpappy on Dec 28^th, 2006, 11:00pm

;;D ;;D Respect and admiration is Good, Pain Free would be better! but all I want is to continue as part of this Great Family, this is how I cope, this and knowing each hit will end as sure as it started. After 36 years of this, I just dont think about it, I just have to live it!
Thank God no one threw the "Pity" word in there!
Svenn is the other daily sanity gauge I use! What a Friend!!!!!! Pappy

Title: Re: Residuals
Post by MorDog on Dec 29^th, 2006, 10:04am

on 12/27/06 at 18:38:40, BigCoffinHunter wrote:

I too always thought of them as "hangover headaches" but residuals probably does describe them better. I am suffering through residuals right now. I only seem to get them when I have had 7 or 8 or higher. Last nights CH was an 8.