Clusterheadaches.com Message Board


    
      
        Clusterheadaches.com Message Board
        (http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi)
      

        New Message Board Archives >> Jan-Mar 2003 >> This was "interesting"
        
(Message started by: Silver_Dolphins on Jan 29^th, 2003, 7:07pm)

Title: This was "interesting"
Post by Silver_Dolphins on Jan 29^th, 2003, 7:07pm

Tomorrow is the last day of the first accounting period in the hotel where I work.

So, we had to do inventories. I get the food store room and coolers. While I was in the walk in cooler, the Beast decides to let me know he was thinking of me. The nose pain, jaw pain and temporal pain all hit suddenly. Fortunately it never got above a kip3.

So, I finished counting the food in the first cooler, and start towards the meat cooler. I took a little break and during that brief five minutes the pain vanished. I go into the meat cooler and BAM, not even a minute into the inventory, it's back at kip3. I finished the meat inventory and go to my office and the pain vanishes again.

I knew the Beast would show up again. I was getting just a little too cocky lately.

Anyone have cooler temps bring on an attack?

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by jonny on Jan 29^th, 2003, 7:16pm

Cold kills my CH

..............................jonny

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by Ted on Jan 29^th, 2003, 7:52pm

It used to be the opposite for me. I was a line cook for a number of years and if I had a shadow (or worse) come on I'd head into the walk-in and it would abort it a number of times. I never had one triggered by being in it though -- unless I was emptying out the N2O from the whipped cream canisters. :-)

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by Opus on Jan 29^th, 2003, 8:34pm

Heat is a trigger, Cold is a relief.
Opus :P

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by parrothead on Jan 29^th, 2003, 9:17pm

Hi-Ho Silver Dolphins,

Just thought I'd let you know that sometimes when I go out into the cold it will bring on my clusters.

Also, when I get a CH I drop an Amerge and take a shower as hot as I can stand, that helps my headaches tons and sometimes gets rid of them completely!

Parrothead in Denver

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by Ueli on Jan 29^th, 2003, 10:38pm

... and there are those that say cold air is almost as good as oxygen. :o

In my experience: Cold air (around freezing) is slightly better than nothing, but a very, very poor substitute of oxygen.

Well, we clusterheads are all individualists. ;D

Ueli

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by ozzman on Jan 30^th, 2003, 5:12am

Cold is a relief. Coming in from the cold air to an overheated building, I sometimes feel the usual twinges of the bastard. If I drink some cold water, I may be able to abort it. Doesn't always work.

Oz

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by BruceD on Jan 30^th, 2003, 8:25am

Heat Bad, Cold Good

Before I knew what these were, I'd be outside in the middle of the night in December pacing & sucking in air as fast as I could. Made for a strange sight - a guy in shorts & t-shirt walking in circles in the snow.

Even now after I know what to call them, when I get hit I still search out a cool spot.

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by marty on Jan 30^th, 2003, 8:37am

Heat Good - Cold Bad !!

When in cycle, ice cream, cold drinks, air cond in my truck etc will trigger..

Hot coffee, hot showers etc helps me..

Makes for a strange sight in a parking lot somewhere in southern Cal, in 100 + degree heat - drinking hot coffee, standing beside the truck - looking like a overdosed meth-freak with sweat dripping from a totally soaked t-shirt..

;D ;D ;D

Marty

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by BruceD on Jan 30^th, 2003, 8:44am

LOL Marty :D

Like Ueli said, each clusterhead is different. I guess we would be just about opposites. OUCH oughta have pictures of both of us doing our individual dances (me in the snow and you in the heat) and sell ‘em as bookends. :D :D

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by Bob P on Jan 30^th, 2003, 8:58am

Being a Cal boy, I used to do the grocery shopping in shorts, t-shirt and barefoot. In cycle, every time I hit the frozen food section, wham, an attack. Left many a half filled cart of groceries sitting in an store.

When I get hit nowdays, I use an icepack on the back of my neck. Don't know that it really helps though.

Like Martin, letting the car ac blow in my face while in cycle sill trigger an attack.

Hot / cold, I just don't know.

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by brain_cramps on Jan 30^th, 2003, 9:37am

just posted this on the thread called 'Termperature thing...'

on 01/30/03 at 09:29:51, brain_cramps wrote:

For me its not really the hot or the cold. Some nights, a hot shower works (a little), other nights...not at all. Some nights, the bag of peas is the first thing I go to, other nights...no help.

I think it has to do with 'the change' or 'just doing something'.

'the change' - any abrupt change to divert the pain or keep your mind off it

'just doing something' - trying to keep busy with anything, instead of just concentrating on the pain, or keeping your mind off it

I know this probably sounds crazy, but its my story and I'm sticking to it! >:(

grant

BTW... My vote definitely goes for COLD. Sleeping with the window open when its -15F works for me ;D

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by JDH on Jan 30^th, 2003, 9:42am

I've always thought the cold air helped me with shadows but not nearly enough to abort a full blown ha.
I actually found a fellow clusterhead/employee in the walk-in freezer where I used to work. He was in there doing the "dance" and I happened to walk in on him. After he "recovered" we got to talking and he described what he was going through but had no idea it was CH.
I've had CH's for about 18 years and that's the first and only time I've ever met another clusterhead in person.

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by kim on Jan 30^th, 2003, 10:03am

Still don't have the answer to the heat/cold dilemna and why we all have variations....

I use heat and cold ( ;D) I'm schitzo and so am I - uh, anyway, I use cold to face and heat to back of neck. After all this time, it's just part of my jitterbug routine. I'd rather be cold during attack, but afterwards, I'm chilled and seek out warmth.....

Yep. It's All Very Strange..... ;D

Title: Re: This was "interesting"
Post by cerebus on Jan 31^st, 2003, 11:37am

Working in a resturant, I frequently flux between extremes of hot and cold, sometimes the hot is good some times the cold is good.
What I do know is CH is pretty much never good.
Cerebus