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(Message started by: Prense on Aug 20^th, 2004, 2:44pm)

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by Prense on Aug 20^th, 2004, 2:44pm

Responses are fairly quick around here...cross posting is not really necessary.

Chris

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by floridian on Aug 20^th, 2004, 3:00pm

The official definition is one year without a 30 day pain free interval, I believe. That definition also sucks and is disconnected from reality. The typical episodic clusterhead goes through a period of 8-12 weeks and then it stops. That is not you. But since you won't qualify as chronic for another 4 months, according to current medical logic, you are episodic.

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by Prense on Aug 20^th, 2004, 3:08pm

on 08/20/04 at 14:56:09, fun bobbi wrote:

You'll excuse me if I seem desperate.
Just trying to make sense of this monster that's attacking me. New diagnosis usually means new meds, which typically means no relief as of yet.
Besides, I'm new here, only been posting for a matter of hours. I'll learn.

Desperation is very well understood here...

Chris

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by pubgirl on Aug 20^th, 2004, 3:10pm

Hi there fun bobbi(pasted again from the other thread- we should agree to wipe one of them or this is going to get confusing!)

Sounds like not funbobbi to me :( life sounds tough!

Doesn't appear that either applies, sounds more like either paroxysmal hemicrania or chronic paroxysmal hemicrania or a condition called Idiopathic stabbing headache

http://www.upstate.edu/neurology/haas/hpstab.htm

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/paroxysmal_hemicrania.htm

Do you get a runny nose/eyes or other symptoms as well? If so, there is also a possibility of SUNCT syndrome, which is rarer.
Have you seen a neuro?

Most good neuros will do an indomethacin therapeutic trial at the outset for most patients whose headache duration may suggest one of these conditions as they are all indomethacin responsive, and in the case of PH/CPH there is a 100% success rate.

Has to be worth a few days of your life to try it as that is all it takes to work if it is going to work

Wendy

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by fun bobbi on Aug 20^th, 2004, 3:33pm

:-*NO MORE MESSAGES HERE PLEASE :-*

I boo-boo'ed
I cross posted!
MY BAD

Sorry all!
If u want to reply, it's posted under 'cluster headache specific'

SORRY again!!

Title: Re: Am I cronic or episodic? Not sure.
Post by pubgirl on Aug 20^th, 2004, 3:42pm

No worries!

Took me weeks to get the hang of message boards. Many say I never have ;;D

Wendy