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(Message started by: lexi919 on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 11:30pm)

Title: GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!
Post by lexi919 on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 11:30pm

Just a little history lesson on me this is my second cluster ever the last one started about 2 years ago the same time of year and this one is really bad i am hitting a kip 10 about every day about 2 hrs or so after i hit the hay, i am getting shadows starting at 1 p.m. or so every day and then usually in the evening i am getting a kip 6-7. ok so here is the point i have had these kip 10's and just about every time i get one i vomit and i start to feel a little bit better. is this normal?let me know thank you guy's. i actually just got rid of my dinner from this evening. a side bar the doc called me in depekote just to respond about earlier said preventative.

Title: Re: GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!
Post by BarbaraD on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 6:52am

Have you tried melatonin before bedtime. It gets you thru the REM sleep and usually (for a lot of us - not all) gets you thru the night hits. It takes a couple of weeks to get in your system and start working (it's not instant). I've been on the melatonin for several years and very seldom have a night hit (I'm chronic). I take 3mg as a maintenance dose but when I'm in a high cycle I take 12-15mg. My neuro recommends it highly.

Some take some benadryl before bedtime (might throw some some dramamine in for the throwing up) till the melatonin starts working.

Don't know about the throwing up - never had that (some do).

Hope you have a short cycle.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!
Post by phil_h on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 7:06am

I'm chronic and a couple of 10's always makes me vomit. phil h

Title: Re: GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!
Post by Bob P on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 7:10am

Yes.
Years ago I would vomit with almost every attack. Didn't know if it was from the pain or the cafergot I was taking. Attack always stopped a few minutes after vomiting. I figured that since serotonin was stored in the intestinal lining that maybe the vomiting was releasing a rush of serotonin and ending the attack.