well as title says I was stupid last night, I've not drunk alcohol since this cycle began, but did have some yesterday evening (thought maybe it didnt trigger everyone), I'd already had two attacks in the morning, but had 3 from utter depths of hell last night and bad shadows all in between, taught me a lesson at least. Usually I get 2 attacks a day but had 5 yesterday.

Tried strong coffee for attack number 3 which aborted it after a little while, but number 4 came on pretty quickly and more coffee didnt help. Gonna go back to the GP tomorrow and batter them into doing something, got to think of a way to make them actually do something helpful.

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I sit there looking at the nice cool bottle of Blandford Fly in the fridge that I bought five weeks ago...*sighs*. Its so easy to do!

Its a hard and painful lesson to learn and I am so sorry your riding more than a mere hangover from hell.

Call your neuro again tomorrow as well as seeing your GP.
If you can cope with triptains ask about imigran nasal spray you can only use them twice a day [20mg] but they can help nail the really nasty heads down to just bloody sore in 10-15 minutes and put off some of the shadows and smaller hits on bad pain days.

My guess is you will have a fight on your hands to get the auto-injectors without a letter at least faxed from your neuro to your GP. Ask your Neuro about O2 too as your GP is not following BASH guidelines. [ START PRINTPAGEMultimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or END PRINTPAGE ]

Looks like your going to be living on coffee today, consider sending someone out to buy a case of redbull if your suffering a lot. I prefer the taste of coffee but find if it really hurts that stuff very cold can help more than even a good coffee.

Hoping the super charged beastie runs out of inholic fueling soon and you can get some rest.

It's a lesson we all have to learn and relearn occasionally.  Sorry for your pain.  I hope today goes better.

-Dennis-

I have heard that hits resulting from alcohol intake can be abated by drinking a lot of ice cold green tea since it combats both the ethanol molecule, dilute the alcohol content in the blood as well as inducing some vasoconstriction.

Has anyone tried this ?

It works well for alcohol induced migraines too.

thanks, I think the beast ran out of the alcoholic fuel in the night, today is a lot better, i.e. no more than usual so far thank god

wont be doing that again in cycle!

I love beer and tend to enjoy at least 1 a day. But I will wait a good month after my cycle is apparently over before indulging. I will not chance relapsing into a cycle. Alcohol has that pronounced and immediate of a correlation with bringing on CH for me.

Steambug wrote on Mar 15^th, 2009 at 7:59am:

wont be doing that again in cycle!

Understood.  Talk about aversive conditioning...   ;)  I do believe that I'd rather flatten my big toe with a three-pound hammer than drink alcohol during a cycle.

Nevertheless, I've made the same mistake.  It isn't pretty.  :P  I'm just glad the effects only last until the alcohol is metabolized.

Best,

George    

Bummer, eh?  Trust me, the second and third time are no better.  Beer and loud smoky bars are off limits; I tend to lead a pretty monastic existence while in cycle.  The beer test is well commented as a way to determine if a cycle is really over.  BTW, Chinese food is also on my list.

Unfortunately, abstinence removes only a trigger, and we still need to deal with this thing.  I hope your hits are mild, and your cycle short.

Jon

Unfortunately, abstinence removes only a trigger, and we still need to deal with this thing.  I hope your hits are mild, and your cycle short.

Couldn't have said it better! ;)

Joe

thanks guys, I seem to be getting less hits each day as of yesterday and today (I'm down to 2 from 4) so fingers crossed it continues - maybe the verapamil is working at last (been on it 2 weeks now)...

now all I got to do is get my doc to give me oxygen!

2 weeks would be about right for the prevent to kick in, let's hope it's an unbreakable wall against the beast! ;)

Joe

thanks Joe, unfortunately I had 4 again today, but only one of them was high up on the scale, I sure that overall things are improving, might be wishful thinking but no headbutting the wall tonight, still needed hubby to pumel my forehead though (he is a godsend because I have weakness in my left arm +  hand and cant rub my head hard enough during a hit without his help!), ek it is late I better try to sleep as the beastie has just gone for now

going to ask my doc on monday about putting up the verapamil dose


Fran

According to another Limey....the UK cannot deny you 02

Insist upon it.   Dr. Goadsby (from London)  named that anyone in the UK or elsewhere who would deny anyone 02... as an ass.

Insist, demand, fight, do not take no for an answer.

thanks, I am going in there all guns blazing tomorrow,

I had a bad one this afternoon, somewhere round an 8 or 9, was pretty much tearing my hair out, thats the trouble isnt it the docs never seem to see it, tonights one less bad, just so damn tired of it all, dont need to explain that I know!

thanks again, will see how I do tomorrow, maybe I should camp out in his office in protest until he agrees to my terms!