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What does your CH pain "look" like?
Dec 17^th, 2008 at 4:38pm

Sorry I have been starting so many threads lately. I just have a lot of thoughts rolling around in my usually empty head! This'll be the last one for a while... I promise!

Ever since I was a little girl, I have kind of visualized what my pain would look like to others if it could be physically seen.

I would have a spike coming out of the top of my head...just to the right a little bit. It would go all the way down past my eye and to my cheek, right at my sinus. There would be an ice pick stuck up my nose and in my ear. There would be nails nailed into my teeth on the right side of my mouth.

I am just curious what your pain would look like?

Jeannie

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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #1 - Dec 17^th, 2008 at 5:11pm Big giant ugly red thing
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CH-HELL Ex Member	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #3 - Dec 17^th, 2008 at 8:02pm A huge hook going in my left eye and coming out my left check near my teeth, and the hook is conected to an electric fence.
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Re: What does your CH pain "look" like?
Reply #5 - Dec 17^th, 2008 at 8:58pm

I don't mean to be crude, but I prefer to visualize the beast's harry ass falling into the Grand Canyon like Wile E. Coyote being followed by a very large bottle of oxygen.

If you’re not hyperventilating on oxygen to abort your attacks, you’re not doing it right…

My little friends feel the same way.

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Re: What does your CH pain "look" like?
Reply #7 - Dec 17^th, 2008 at 10:22pm

During the shadow phase? A gigantic shadow. It doesn't really have a form in my mind. Right before an attack, it's a little shadow-man sitting on my shoulder, pressing his hands on my left side of my face...

When the attack starts, he turns into a gigantic monster, his teeth tearing down, through my eye, or from the top of my head down. His mouth is wrapped around the left side of my head. He's squeezing my neck and shoulder with one hand, and I dance to try to fling him off.

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Bob P CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Shut up Bob! Posts: 4573 Clio,California Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #9 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 6:50am Quote: If you’re not hyperventilating on oxygen to abort your attacks, you’re not doing it right… Well don't that just figure! Didn't do the shrooms right and now I'm not doing O2 right! At least the O2 works even though I don't do it right!
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Jimi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't feed the moderators Posts: 4925 Madisonville, KY Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #11 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:40am Quote: At least the O2 works even though I don't do it right! Yep Bob, I guess we are the lucky ones. I never used a rebreather mask, just a regular one with no bag. Set the regulator to 8lpm and aborted in 10 minutes most times, sometime 15.
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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #13 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:45am So why does 02 work for some and not for others? Are there any scientific reasons? Thanks, Jeannie
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Jimi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't feed the moderators Posts: 4925 Madisonville, KY Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #14 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:54am .....or why does 02 work for most clusters and not migraines? Whereas Imetrix works for both? I don't know.
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gizmo CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 522 Germany Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #15 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 12:03pm Jeannie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:45am: So why does 02 work for some and not for others? Are there any scientific reasons? They don't even know for sure what causes it (the hypothalamus thing is only a theory), so ... Oliver
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Re: What does your CH pain "look" like?
Reply #16 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 12:07pm

Jeannie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:45am:

So why does 02 work for some and not for others? Are there any scientific reasons?

Thanks,
Jeannie

As per the "god's wrath" theory, those that O2 works for have only committed "venial" sins, while non-O2 effective CH was caused by "mortal" sins.

(Please know that I'm kidding but couldn't help myself)

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Re: What does your CH pain "look" like?
Reply #20 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 12:34pm

seasonalboomer wrote on Dec 18^th, 2008 at 12:07pm:

Jeannie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2008 at 11:45am:

So why does 02 work for some and not for others? Are there any scientific reasons?

Thanks,
Jeannie

As per the "god's wrath" theory, those that O2 works for have only committed "venial" sins, while non-O2 effective CH was caused by "mortal" sins.

(Please know that I'm kidding but couldn't help myself)

I have often wondered what I could have done for God to give me such pain... in my "why me" moments.

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gizmo CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 522 Germany Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #21 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 12:38pm Quote: I have often wondered what I could have done for God to give me such pain... in my "why me" moments. I prefer to think that we clusterheads are too kind / gentle / strong / ... (fill in whatever is appropriate) and that this is the reason we've got this "present" Oliver
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Layla328 CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 804 Boston Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #22 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 1:27pm Along those lines, they say "God only gives you what you can handle". Well, not trying to brag, but if anyone else in my family had CH for even a week, never mind 20 years, I truly believe they would not be able to "handle" it. But why anyone at all has to get it, that part I don't know.
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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: What does your CH pain "look" like? Reply #23 - Dec 18^th, 2008 at 1:44pm "God only gives you what you can handle". I wish God wouldn't give me so much credit!
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