NG Explorer said there are no trials on 2-Bromo currently planned.  Could anyone give me as much info on the initial trial and what is underway?  I have a contact in the pharmaceutical industry who I was talking to who was interested in this information.

Before anyone gets their hopes up, this contact is not a decision maker and thus there is very little , if any, chance that this will turn into anything, but I figured it was just gathering some info so why not.

I repeat, I am fairly sure this won't spark anything, but hey........ even if it was a janitor.... I'd do it.

I thought I heard a certain person at the Chicago CB conference say that they were working on getting trials going at Harvard, possibly as early as next year.

Bob Wold would be the one to know about it.  If you don't hear from him here try contacting him through the new Clusterbusters message board.

Jerry

I'll try to get a hold of him.  For as long as I have been here, you would think I would have known to talk to him.

Funny, I was given an article about this by a doc last month!  I told him about the special on Nat'l Geo last week  ;)
There was a Very short article published in Cephalalgia titled "Attack Cessation and remission induction with 2-bromo-LSD for cluster headache".  John Halpern of Harvard apparently had a clinical case with 4 case study participants (oooohhh I know the thorough nature of it) - but it is considered an open-label trial at this point anyway.  I guess Halpern would be the person to get in touch with Eric...
As far as the trial, one person had a 30% reduction in pain intensity and 73% reduction in frequency (after 2 months) for a period of 4 months, while the other 3 participants had complete or "near complete" remission of symptoms for at least 2 months after treatment!  WOOT now That's What I'm talking About!  If you get in touch with Halpern and he has room for more CCH participants, I might be interesting in moving to MA.   ;D
(One more interesting fact - these 4 participants were outpatient in Hannover, Germany actually.  They only had 3 treatments of BOL, or 2-bromo-LSD, and the treatments were separated by 5 days.)

Val

Val_ wrote on Nov 8^th, 2009 at 11:50pm:

Funny, I was given an article about this by a doc last month!  I told him about the special on Nat'l Geo last week  ;) There was a Very short article published in Cephalalgia titled "Attack Cessation and remission induction with 2-bromo-LSD for cluster headache".  John Halpern of Harvard apparently had a clinical case with 4 case study participants (oooohhh I know the thorough nature of it) - but it is considered an open-label trial at this point anyway.  I guess Halpern would be the person to get in touch with Eric... As far as the trial, one person had a 30% reduction in pain intensity and 73% reduction in frequency (after 2 months) for a period of 4 months, while the other 3 participants had complete or "near complete" remission of symptoms for at least 2 months after treatment!  WOOT now That's What I'm talking About!  If you get in touch with Halpern and he has room for more CCH participants, I might be interesting in moving to MA.   ;D (One more interesting fact - these 4 participants were outpatient in Hannover, Germany actually.  They only had 3 treatments of BOL, or 2-bromo-LSD, and the treatments were separated by 5 days.) Val

Dr. Halpern was the "certain person" I was talking about.

Val_ wrote on Nov 8^th, 2009 at 11:50pm:

while the other 3 participants had complete or "near complete" remission of symptoms for at least 2 months after treatment!

For at least two of them (I was one of these lucky guys) the complete or "near complete" remission of symptoms stretched to 6 months.

Thanks all.  I have forwarded a preliminary email with some information I got from a person here.  I don't expect much to come of it but you never know.

Crazier things have happened.

Right now the holdup is the funding to be able to conduct a study in the States as soon as FDA approval is received.  There is no point in applying though without the funding to do the study.  For a mere half mil I'm sure Dr Halpern would be happy to name the study for you.

Jerry