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Message started by Jbrigham77 on Jan 24th, 2010 at 9:29am

Title: question
Post by Jbrigham77 on Jan 24th, 2010 at 9:29am
I am currently on a Lupron injection to stop endometriosis and now all of a sudden am in a horrible cluster cycle.  It's only been a few days and while I normally start a cycle with one headache a night I went from one a night to 6 last night.  The Dr's don't know what the Lupron will do with my ch as there is nothing out there on it. 
I am just trying to find any information I can on it.

Title: Re: question
Post by deltadarlin on Jan 24th, 2010 at 11:08am
I googled Lupron and one of the side effects is headaches.  That being said, I'm probably going to figure that is referring to migraines, since Lupron causes some pretty big hormonal shifts.  It still could affect your headaches because it screws with the body so bad.

Are there any other medications that you've tried for endo (pm me if you want, went through all this with my daughter for 6 years).

Carolyn~aka~deltadarlin

Title: Re: question
Post by Karla on Jan 24th, 2010 at 2:56pm
I did lupron for 7 months for endo back in 2000.  It triggered my migraines like crazy and made my ch much more severe.  Didn't increase the frequency just made them all kip10's.  I had a hysterectomy and my migraines all but went away.  HMmm.  Must have been hormonally triggered big time.  Unfortunatly my ch remained 8x/day year round.  But lowered in intensity.

Title: Re: question
Post by Jbrigham77 on Jan 24th, 2010 at 8:36pm
Karla-
  Yrs ago I found out my migraines are w/out medication daily- not horrible like CH but can be bad.  my ch cycles are normally every 1 yr and half but after my 4th surgery in 2008 I went into a cycle and then 9 months later had another one but nothing since.  Except the occasional migraine until dec when I got the injection.  I have gotten about 10 migraines but knew that was a possibility as my dr and i discussed it at length.   But after last night I will never agree to take this shot again.  I have had a shadow ha all day long and have a feeling that tonight will be just as bad.  I am just totally at a loss as I have never had a cycle jump from 1 a night to 6 the next in the almost 12 yrs I have had them.
Probably doesn't help either that my gall bladder is now bad and has to come out soon as well. 

Title: Re: question
Post by bejeeber on Jan 26th, 2010 at 2:32am

Jbrigham77 wrote on Jan 24th, 2010 at 8:36pm:
I will never agree to take this shot again.


Can't blame you for that!!!  :o

What with your gall bladder issues and all I hope you get into a really good diet and healing herbs etc. (if you're not already) because IMO that approach is likely to do much more for your chronic conditions than the pesky MDs with their pesky drugs are.

I know it has helped me and many others with certain types of chronic health issues. Hasn't done much for my CH though!  :(

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