Anyone ever tried capsaicin? My mom called me about it this morning. I can't tell if its a preventative or abortive?

Rick

It don't really work.

        Potter

Apparently, Dr. Oz had a segment on CH where he said that an inexpensive way to treat clusters was to put capsaicin cream up your nose. 

We haven't seen much in the way of success with the capsaicin spray for CH. There have been some interesting studies about its pain killing ability, for those interested here's one from Harvard:

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I think spaying it up your nose and hoping for relief would be like eating bread mold and hoping there's be enough penicillin in it to cure your infection. ;) It's just in the infant stages for now.

JOe

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Here ya be

Thanks for the info Bob ;)

Rick

Nope - thanks OUCH!

It seemed to work for me a couple times.  By the third try it wasn't helping anymore.  First go was accident and seemed to abort a low level hit, second try helped a little, third try did little if anything.