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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #25 - Nov 25^th, 2008 at 9:51am Off cycle, nothing, on cycle: 1: Alcohol 2: Messing with my sleep cycles 3: Sustained levels of stress 4: Getting really really hungry Smells never seem to be a problem. Wishing pain free thanksgiving days for all. Guiseppi
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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #26 - Nov 27^th, 2008 at 4:22am In cycle: 1. REM sleep. 2. Running after our two year old in the shoppingmall. 3. Alcohol, especially redwine. 4. Relaxation after working out, or doing some sort of labour, changing tires have set off a nasty k9 one time. Out of cycle, present. Not a damn thing
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Re: What are your triggers?
Reply #27 - Nov 28^th, 2008 at 12:28pm

My personal top ten list:

1. Hot baths, which I unfortunately love

2. Alcohol, ditto alas

3. 1. and 2. combined is deadly

4. Quick changes in barometric pressure, discovered just this past summer during a couple of mountain climbing trips

5. Oversleeping or a nap that goes on too long

6. Lemurs, especially the ring-tailed ones (although they ARE adorable)

7. Reading Albanian poetry to longshoremen

8. The exasperating non-phoneticism of the name "Geoffrey"

9. The fact that people from Moscow are Muscovites, those from Michigan Michiganders, and Liverpool natives Liverpudlians

10. That I'll never be able to afford that dream vacation in the Isles of Langerhans

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Re: What are your triggers?
Reply #28 - Nov 28^th, 2008 at 1:09pm

out of a cycle, nothing. NO HA.
in a cycle:
1. odors
2. heat
3. getting hungry
4. bright lights
5. sodium nitrate
6. MSG
7. irregular sleep
8. changes in barometric pressure, like rain storms, hurricaines, fronts
9. stuffy nose
or i can be just walking around and BOOM! im crying like a baby, holding my head and all. ive had a few hits since my remission, or what i thought was, is strange. i get these kip 5's all day, they bother me and the pain is annoying. NOTHING compared to the kip 10's i get 95% of the time. i thought it was over, because thats how the cycles are, they stop suddenly. i wish this cycle would just end, today, NOW.

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Ade Ex Member	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #29 - Nov 28^th, 2008 at 2:00pm 1) The merest whiff of alcohol; 2) Sudden increase in body temperature; 3) Caffeine, esp. on an empty stomach. 4) Random stuff I haven't got a handle on yet. "... I wish this cycle would end NOW" - amen to that, my friend.
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-johnny- CH.com Sponsor Offline theres no smoking on the dock Posts: 1642 fayette county ohio Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #30 - Nov 29^th, 2008 at 2:28am beer pot smoke diesel smoke sleep laying down flat perfume driving my wifes nagging headlights burning oil wood burning stoves dry air hot air hot dogs sausage chocolate relaxation watching tv popcorn chicago traffic and that one friend that my wife has with the screetchy voice. it's like driving nailsin your ears. man
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Re: What are your triggers?
Reply #31 - Dec 4^th, 2008 at 5:21pm

Haven't been posting since my initial introduction some many months back. Going through another cycle right now. Just started seeing a neurologist. I'm on Depakote(sp) and imatrix(sp) nasal. Will probably go to injection after last night... one of the worst headaches in a while.

Triggers
1- Sleep
2- Naps
3- Fatigue
4- I hope to god not chocolate.

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MorDog CH.com Junior Offline Not Again! Posts: 31 Wauseon, Ohio / USA Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #32 - Dec 7^th, 2008 at 10:55am No triggers out of cycle! Triggers in cycle Sleep - (either rem sleep or if I just try to take a nap during the day) Alcohol Hunger
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BarbaraD CH.com Alumnus Offline Hugs to ya Posts: 8333 Douglasville, TX Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #33 - Dec 7^th, 2008 at 1:15pm Barometric pressure dropping Smoke (outdoor burning) Mostly relaxation (stay stress - NEVER relax) Hugs BD
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Callico CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Author of "Stranded at Romson's Lodge Posts: 4916 Aurora IL Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #34 - Dec 7^th, 2008 at 11:48pm Perfumes Scented Candles Solvents relaxation Spray Paint (regular oil or latex ok NOT Kilz!) Markers To many nitrites and nitrates Aspartame Jerry
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LadyRadiator CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 3 FL Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #35 - Dec 8^th, 2008 at 12:20am -Alcohol -Humidity -Cigarettes -Sleeping -Changes in the weather
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Klaus CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! And HATE CH ! Posts: 15 China Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #36 - Dec 9^th, 2008 at 9:08pm Alcohol in general (half beer is enough) Relaxing (as long I am in full speed, everything fine) Sleep of course (1,5 hrs after I fall asleep) But usually only one attack doing the night. Pressure changes when on a flight (could be the vine and cognac as well)
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ccbiggsoo7 CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 245 x0\|st. louis\|\|\|\|\| Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #37 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 4:36am gummy vitamins liked to killed me, beer, barometric changes.
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uncle-cluster CH.com Junior Offline Oh, I'm the chuckle head?! Posts: 46	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #38 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 5:52am I only know of red wine thanks for this thread .. I will be checking MSG
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Snapper21 CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 24 Front Royal VA Gender:	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #39 - Dec 23^rd, 2008 at 7:20pm Not enough water Too many pepsi's Hunger Pressure treated wood in confined areas Mildew smell in the woods from rain and leaves Too much sawdust intake Small breasts
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thebbz Ex Member	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #41 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 2:36pm Quote: 4) small breast's Does it everytime. the bb
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Re: What are your triggers?
Reply #42 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 7:32pm

my most noticeable triggers:
-barometric changes
-alcohol
-reading (on page or on a screen)
-bright lights or glare (ESPECIALLY my computer screen)
-synthetic perfumes
-smoke-from cigs, incense, a wood fire, anything
-that high-pitched "whine" from electronics devices...especially old tube tv sets

and all of these things will give me a migraine when I'm out of cycle, too, except for alcohol.

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Reply #43 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 7:37pm

oh- and speaking of triggers....anybody see that French art film from the 20's "Ballet Mechaniques"?

If you haven't, it's twenty minutes of crazy B&W high-contrast flashes of faces and objects and swirling, spinning, stripey crap set to the "music" of horns, pianos, sirens, propellers, pots and pans clanging, etc, ad nauseum.

Well, in my History of Cinema night class we had to watch it, on the full-sized screen in the teaching theatre, right when I was wrestling the beast. THEN, the next morning in Modern Art History, I had to watch it AGAIN!!! Cheesy

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Jonny Ex Member	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #44 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 7:45pm No triggers here!
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Rolomatic Ex Member	Re: What are your triggers? Reply #45 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 8:03pm Quote: No triggers here! Yea Jonny, not even the girls...
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Re: What are your triggers?
Reply #46 - Dec 28^th, 2008 at 8:06pm

UnderTheRadar wrote on Dec 28^th, 2008 at 7:32pm:

-that high-pitched "whine" from electronics devices...especially old tube tv sets.

I apologize in advance for the irrelevant asides. LOL. I do that.

Interesting that you should mention this. The whine of a television was terribly annoying to me when I was younger, although I don't recall that it ever triggered a CH. I don't hear it nowadays. Perhaps televisions simply don't whine anymore, but my kid informs me that is not the case, and that they whine abominably.

Looked it up, and found this, in case you're interested:

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When I was very young, I also used to be able to hear the sonar calls of bats. (Probably only the lower range of their calls, however.) A large colony of little brown bats lived in a barn next door to us, and the calls as the bats emerged in the evening would go right through my head--they are unbelievably loud.

Funny to think that cacophony still goes on all around me on summer evenings when I'm out fishing and the bats are flittering by--and I don't hear it at all. There is at least one kernel of blissful ignorance in encroaching age, and blessed silence sometimes where it does not exist at all. Wink

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Reply #47 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 11:31am

George, that's interesting indeed. I remember the start up whine of TVs and I don't hear it anymore. Even more disturbing to me used to be the "silent" alarms in jewelry stores and the jewelry sections of department stores. I would always have to leave immediately. Now that I've entered geezerhood I don't hear any of that anymore. But the screeching of those pterodactyls are REALLY starting to annoy me.

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Reply #48 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 1:17pm

-alcohol (love scotch and good micros when in remission)
-any kind of smoke whether it's a cigarette, pot, leafs burning etc...
-any form of tobacco
-MSG, foods with nitrates, high amounts of sodium
-chocolate
-strong perfume or certain candles
-hunger
-too much sleep
-the wife bitching
-work

The worse is during a shadow HA when somebody asks why you're pounding a Monster drink and your right eye is bloodshot, teary, and drooping. That almost puts me right into a full blown cluster.

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Reply #49 - Dec 29^th, 2008 at 5:19pm

1) Allergic reactions. After I eat wheat I first break out in hives and then the hits come. The worse the hives, the worse and more recurrent the hits. Also happens with molds, certain medications (especially ergotamine inhaler- Gawd, that was a nightmare!)
2)Glare
3)Strobe/flashing lights
4)Strong smells. Two steps inside a Penzey's spice store once put me in tears with instant shadows.
5)Rapid changes in barometric pressure or temperature.
6)Not getting enough sleep.
7)Calming down after a stressful event.
8)Cooling off after hard/prolonged exercise.
9)Red Wine. And possibly other alcohols. I've never been much of a drinker. I seem to do fine with Margaritas though.

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