Hello all....

Yesterday I had to have my longtime best pal / doggie friend put down after almost 15 years.  it's a sad thing, but not positng this to garner sympathy....

I had a really good cry after I got home, and almost as soon as I stopped, I had the longest and one of the strongest CHA's yet of this cycle.

Anyone else ever had crying be a HA trigger?

As we say in N.C. : "Might could be!"

No catalog of triggers; your personal experience is as validly labeled "trigger" as any others events.

Never noticed that as a trigger, but as Bob says, triggers vary a LOT. Sorry about the dog, only a dog owner understands how much that stings.

Joe

Sorry to hear about your friend. It's not an easy decision and the little fellow was probably worth a few tears. I know my 12 year old cat was when he got sick and had to be put down. The crying didn't trigger a headache for me. The only real way to know if it's a trigger for you is to have another good cry and see what happens. I hope it doesn't. It's not something you can easily do without a good reason and, it's all bad enough being sad without feeling like you're going to be punished for it.

Wishing you peace and pain free years,

rep

It might not be the tears but the stress as changes in stress levels is a very common trigger for many of us. And losing a much loved pet is as many of us know very stressful.

Remember the good times... That helps...

I learned recently from a very reliable source that the chemical content of your tears varies massively depending whether you're crying from pain, grief or laughter.

Doesn't help, I know.  Just thought I'd mention it.

Very sorry to hear you lost your best pal.
I'm with Mike NZ. I'm a believer that (for me) stress keeps the clusters away. Relaxing or calming down after a very stressful situation can bring on the attack.

Omg - I have found crying to be a trigger as well. So much so that it will cause me to have terrible shadows and trigiminal (sp?) nerve pain when I'm in remission (though even in remission I will have the nerve pain almost every night at the same time - everything but the actual headache). It is terrible for me because I suffer from depression (a lot due to the CH) and I have a hard time trying to keep control of my emotions so that I don't trigger myself... I have gotten a lot better about breathing and talking myself down from an emotional "event". It is also terrible because when I am at a 10 on the scale I cry and scream, which most likely perpetuates the problem. I'm sorry that this is also one of your triggers - but take solace in knowing that being able to control that side of yourself will make you a stronger person all around :)

For me, appears to be so. Was at the funeral of a good friend and had to force myself to stop crying, since the beast started charging at me. How **'d up is that??