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(Message started by: barbee on Feb 20^th, 2002, 9:37pm)

Title: Give up the good stuff?
Post by barbee on Feb 20^th, 2002, 9:37pm

Friends kept telling me my CH must be from allergies. ???So, I gave up the good stuff: cheese, chocolate, wine, vodka. and guess what? Still had the CH. It's been a week since I had the things I like. Tonight I'm having cheese, wine and chocolate, plus maybe a cappucino. If I'm still having the CH, might as well enjoy the good stuff. ;)

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by Charlie on Feb 21^st, 2002, 5:27am

Good for you! There may be those that have some kind of allergy problem but I'm not one of them. Nothing so far as I know caused them. Had a friend who taught psychiatric nursing and thought that people are so anxious to at least find something definite that they blame everything on allergies. I do not say it isn't true, but maybe in this case it is and you're right. If so, at least you'll not have to give up the good stuff. :D

:D :D :D :D :D

Charlie

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by Ann on Feb 21^st, 2002, 6:40am

I tried that too a few years ago. Gave up all refined sugars, coffee, cheese..you name it..just to see. Well that turned out to be a real joke. It never had a thing to do with my clusters...just made life a little more boring! :P I'm not saying that these things aren't triggers for some people...just not for this clusterhead. Life is too short..we might as well enjoy ourselves!

PFDAN to you

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by David_M on Feb 21^st, 2002, 7:57am

I read a posting yesterday from people who were vegetarians and vegans, and it didn't make a wit of difference for ch either.

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by Ueli on Feb 21^st, 2002, 8:13am

Barbee, your friend probably heard something about the migraine trigger list, a meaningless (at least for us) collection of all the good stuff that some migrainer in the last 200 years thought to be a trigger.

Migrainers consider a trigger period of 24 hours or more, and if were the same for CH, then everything we eat or drink could be considered a trigger. :-[

However, for CH a trigger is easy to identify: If you get an out of schedule attack within 2 hours of ingesting something, it is probably a trigger, but if it is something you like, better double check. :-) If you don't get hit within 2 hours, it can be considered save.

There are very few common triggers for CH:
For 90% or more of all clusterheads alcohol is a sure fire trigger, so check on your wine and vodka.
For some (~10%) MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate) that is used liberally as "taste enhancer" in many ready made food is a trigger.
A few Clusterheads have some other triggers, but these are so rare it makes no sense to collect them in a universally valid list.

Coffee: migrainers usually avoid coffee like the devil the holy water, but for many clusterheads coffee helps to abort an attack. Caffeine also helps to speed up the absorption of many meds.

We clusterheads are off bad enough, it makes no sense to deprive us of some goodies, just because of hear say.
Ueli

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by Linda T on Feb 21^st, 2002, 6:29pm

Everyone (everyone who doesn't understand clusters, that is) keeps telling me its something that I ate, too much stress, blah blah blah. Well, I thought that there might be something to it, so I stopped eating and drinking the "known" triggers. Didn't work. Still got hit. Now I just roll my eyes at them when they start diagnosing me.

Title: Re: Give up the good stuff?
Post by murphysmom on Feb 22^nd, 2002, 8:36am

Peace: I've been a veggie-head for longer than I've been a clusterhead, but I did give up cigarettes and alcohol specifically because of ch. But I still chow on chocolate and drink coffee. (I don't eat meat for spiritual reasons) So hey whatever works for you. mmom ::)