I wonder if I have the same headaches. I have tried all that. None of it even touched anything. Shadow or K 10. It's like a band-aid on a bullet wound. By the time they worked ,if they worked, I would be thrashing and putting holes in the wall with my forehead.
What a deal. Guess I'm a puss.
all the best
the bb

The 15mg of meloxicam, taken every day, for me prevented the attacks. It didn't make an ongoing attack disappear. However, the attacks started to come back after around 10 days, despite taking the meloxicam. Meaning that I got first one attack, then the normal two per day.

I changed it to Arcoxia, the attacks stopped completely. Again, I didn't take it mid-attack - rather, it just prevented (and still prevents) the attacks coming at all. I've been on 90mg of Arcoxia per day since 4.11.2008 and also totally pain-free since that day.

Etoricoxib is a more specific and stronger COX-2 inhibitor than meloxicam is, to add.

I strongly believe that CH is an umbrella term for similar symptoms caused by a variety of medical disorders involving the trigeminal nerve. That is the reason why people find help from different drugs. My disorder, in my opinion, involves an inflammation around that region and the COX-2 inhibitors are the strongest drugs along with steroids to treat it. The doctors couldn't see inflammation from my MRI-images, but the doctors are not omniscient and the MRI is not perfect. The fact is that I'm living a normal life because of a drug that specifically targets inflammation.

Think of it in a way that you might not see because of a variety of reasons too. Some people have had the eyes removed, some have been born without eyes, some are blind because of other condition or disease and some have blindfolds on. Yet the effect remains the same. Some of these conditions are impossible to treat (yet), but some of them are treatable.

- Best regards and PFDAN,
Rosa