Kinder gentler Potter

i was just wondering that, if it may be a common random thing.

Used to happen to me early on--getting one out of the blue.  Hasn't happened for a long time. 

This is just based on hearsay and is mostly a SWAG--but I think episodic cycles aren't always well-defined right at first.  It may take a little time for them to settle into a clear pattern. 

I don't necessarily think you should be too concerned about a rogue hit--it may be nothing more than a one-off.

Best,

George

Glad to know that you were at least experiencing some PF time chris... sure does suck to know that out of the blue you got slammed again.

As a chronic sufferer I have to tell ya that for the last 3 months or so I have been getting slammed every day with an increased frequency , above and beyond my normal 5 or 7 hits a day. The sleep deprivation and depression also play a huge part in the aggravation factor. While o2 is a heaven-send... the abort times are growing longer and longer and the re-attacks keep me always reaching for the o2.

I have experienced in the past a very bad attack once while driving on the pa turnpike, in the rain, on a portion of the road that did not have a place for me to pull over.... Surrounded by 18 wheelers on a very curvy descending slope. The anxiety attack on top of the hit was traumatizing.... to say the least.

Although I have no answer for you I would recommend that you stay armed with what-ever your doctor prescribed for you at all times... Hopefully by now you may have received a prescription for oxygen.

I would never consider leaving home now without a full e-tank.

Hope that you feel better soon.

with warm regards,
Tony

im tryn' to stay optamistic and say it was a one time thing. maybe it was somethingi ate. it felt like cluster on the right and a migraing on the left. total 100% head pain. i dont want to say what i came home and did, but it put me to sleep, no more pain and i woke in the mornining at 7 and felt great.

youh IT its a lot of stress. especially since the mom wont talk to me. makes things hareder on me as well as junior. they dont see it that way.sucks.

I've come to think that the face and head pain is the extreme end manifestation of a condition thats with us all the time.
I've had clusters since I was a child, so something like 45-50 years or more. They haven't been there all the time and have varied a great deal. I've been episodic for about the last 15 years.
I get a lot of sneezing fits and sudden blocked up nasal passages. My eyes also water in a puff of breeze. There has never been much of a reason for this. I also have some asthma from time to time which again doesn't seem to have a bearing on anything.
I also have problems focussing and my mind wanders around a lot. When I was a kid I was always told I had my head in the clouds even though I seem to be able to understand difficult concepts which now has me labelled as intelligent.
I might be wrong but I think if you have clusters, they are there all the time and the worst end of them is the pain. In my view the rest are symptoms which are related to timing and histamines in some way.
In that way you can get hit in one offs. That happened to me more when I was a child.
I wish you all freedom from the pain and a cure round the corner.


Ellick