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(Message started by: Grandma on Jun 9^th, 2002, 12:47am)

Title: antihistamines
Post by Grandma on Jun 9^th, 2002, 12:47am

Does anyone take antihistamines to prevent the headaches during an aggressive cluster?
If they are classified as "histamatic" headaches, shouldn't that mean that antihistamines should help keep them at bay?

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by Drk^Angel on Jun 9^th, 2002, 1:13am

I think the name "histamine headache" is an old, outdated term. I'm on antihistamines for a cold right now, but the beast is still lurkin'. It would be nice if it was that simple though... "I have a headache... Where'd I put the Benedryl?" Oh well...

PFDAN..................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by Drk^Angel on Jun 9^th, 2002, 1:17am

Some information on the histamine aspects of CH can be found here:

http://www.clusterheadaches.com/about.html#Histamine

PFDAN............................. Drk^Angel

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by Grandma on Jun 9^th, 2002, 1:29am

:)Thanks for your reply. I read what it said about histamines, but couldn't figure out exactly what it was saying, other than - I guess - that anithistamines are ineffective?
I was just thinking that if a person took them regularly as a preventative - like Lithium or Verapamil - that maybe that would work. Especially since they now have antihistamines that don't make you drowsy.

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by rick on Jun 9^th, 2002, 2:21am

I know that a histamine drip IV is used to bust cycles by the Diamond Headache Clinic.

Well, at least that's what they told me, and they said it had an 80% success rate.

Anyone know about this?

And there's this guy:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA010530Headaches_cluster.html

Peace.

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by sailpappy on Jun 11^th, 2002, 10:10pm

;D ;DI know a little about it, I had it done 5 times and it never helped even slow them down.
During the 3 hour drip over a 3 day period you are at about a kip 6 to 7 the entire time and I had full blown 9+'s about every hour also, it might work for some, but for me it was organized and controlled torcherhttp://animatedgif.net/violent/exploding_e0.gif Pappy

Title: Re: antihistamines
Post by rick on Jun 12^th, 2002, 12:23pm

Thanks, Pappy. I've heard of only two sufferers that have had some success with the treatment (the dude from the link I posted above plus another that came forward on the board a few months ago), but I remain skeptical of the "80%".

I would think that if there were such a high success rate, the treatment would be more readily available at other institutions.

-Rick