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(Message started by: backagain on Jul 1^st, 2003, 8:16am)

Title: Loss of effectiveness
Post by backagain on Jul 1^st, 2003, 8:16am

Any theories on why almost all the meds seem to work for a while and then loose their effectiveness? It seems no matter what, we have to suffer before the cycle ends.

Title: Re: Loss of effectiveness
Post by ave on Jul 1^st, 2003, 1:10pm

We don't know why they loose effectiveness because
we don't know why they work (not exactly).

We don't know

Title: Re: Loss of effectiveness
Post by ave on Jul 1^st, 2003, 1:13pm

wrong button, sorry.

Not all meds loose effectiveness for everybody.

We don't know exactly why meds work, because we don't know exactly what process causes clusters.

So no, we don't know why they stop working for some.

Any theory is just that... and has no basis in fact even.

Title: Re: Loss of effectiveness
Post by forgetfulnot on Jul 1^st, 2003, 10:27pm

Your body will build resistence to almost any drug over time. Certian drugs dont fit into that catagory. Your Doctor should know which is which.

Lee

Title: Re: Loss of effectiveness
Post by smfaison on Jul 6^th, 2003, 3:17pm

I am an episodic sufferer. My theory, for what it is worth is that the CH's are like lightning. It builds up until it has to discharge somewhere. I always experience an ebb and flow in the number and intensity of headaches when I am in a cycle. The best I have ever been able to do is, sort of control them for the 4 months that my cycles always last.