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(Message started by: NoMoreCH on May 31^st, 2007, 2:46pm)

Title: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by NoMoreCH on May 31^st, 2007, 2:46pm

I´m new to this board and have read some of the topics with regards to symptom battling and attack aborting.

We are pretty much screwed because there are so little of us I say... Maybe we should start thinking about doing some R&D ourselves during the painfree cycles.

I´m just wondering about the Hypothalamus... Does anyone know where the medical community stands on this (if they have a stance at all)?

Is it likely the cause of CH?

What non-invasive solution might influence the Hypothalamus? Hormones? Vitamines? Other?

Hopefully there is someone on this board who knows about this or at least can point in the right direction because I am willing to put a lot of time in this.

And be a Guinea pig...

NMCH 8)

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by Wayne on May 31^st, 2007, 3:35pm

You should check out the links on the left here, lots of info. from what i can gather there are only really hypotheses that the Hypothalamus freaks and causes these things but how and why is wide open to conjecture.

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by Bob_Johnson on May 31^st, 2007, 5:39pm

The quick answer: Yes! This concept is so well established that it no longer occupies much discussion here; the concept is now frequently commented on in medical literature in a tone which says, Yes--this is so.

See the buttons to the left; Headache links, then cluster news, then first item, "BBC..."

The next question: So What? How does the hypothalamus create CH? That question has not been answered yet; it's accepted that, in some fashion, it's the trigger source but the actual mechanisms have yet to be grasped.

Glad you are exploring!!!

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by Sandy_C on May 31^st, 2007, 6:43pm

And, please, keep exploring.

There is no stupid question except the one you did not ask, or in this case, did not explore.

Research is knowledge. Knowledge may some day find a cure.

Sandy

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by Jonny on May 31^st, 2007, 9:17pm

Try googeling....Dr Goadsby and get back to us on your findings ;)

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by cluster on Jun 1^st, 2007, 9:26am

Hypothalamus:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/VBM1.jpg/150px-VBM1.jpg

Here are some more pictures and an explanation:

Wikipedia: Cluster Headache/Hypothalamus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache#Hypothalamus)

pf wishes
Friedrich

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by NoMoreCH on Jun 1^st, 2007, 9:57am

I will definitly share anyhting I can find, hopefully something useful will come out of this...

This is a good start, great...

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by chewy on Jun 1^st, 2007, 8:40pm

If you want to save a lot of time and energy just read up on Professor Goadsby from the UK.

Title: Re: The CH cause: Hypothalamus?
Post by mcf69 on Jun 3^rd, 2007, 12:04am

on 05/31/07 at 14:46:29, NoMoreCH wrote:

What non-invasive solution might influence the Hypothalamus? Hormones? Vitamines? Other?

Look into melatonin, plenty of info around on it here, also check out the threads on kudzu on the board.......

Title: Headache News
Post by cluster on Jun 16^th, 2007, 5:15am

on 05/31/07 at 14:46:29, NoMoreCH wrote:

I´m just wondering about the Hypothalamus... Does anyone know where the medical community stands on this (if they have a stance at all)?

Hello NoMoreCH,

Latest news in the "Headache" Journal June 2007:

Quote:

[...] The involvement of the hypothalamus in functional imaging studies implies that this may be a substrate for targeting treatment options in the future.

(Source: Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain) (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00839.x) <= See link for (not much) more details.

pf wishes
Friedrich