You're over thinkin it.

                 Potter

Following that logic I should spend 20 hours a day researching winning lottery numbers.

This is called superstition.

I'm reminded of a lyric by the great Stevland Hardaway Morris (aka Stevie Wonder):

Quote:

New Years resolutions have always been important to me.  I usually critique my pros/cons/goals/objectives to achieve goals, etc.  Last month I was reviewing my resolutions for 2010 and the subject of health came to mind.  I thought about my health issues.  One that came to mind was CH's.  I have not had a CH in 5 yrs.  Normally I get cycles every other year for the past 30 yrs.  I have been on/off this website message board since 1999.  I have not been on this board in a couple years and considering I am "overdue" for a cycle, thought it might be in my best interest to research and see if there are any new clinical studies, meds-preventantives/abortives, ways to manipulate doctors and insurance companies, etc. so that I will be prepared when I next get hit with a cycle.  We all know it is dreadful to sit and try and concentrate on reading something while in cycle.  I read alot of posts from the past two yrs and I posted a few, I replied to a few.  I even ordered a coffee mug from the ch store which arrived very fast  

My wife has never known me to have CH's, only to know a small amount of info from what I have told her of them.  We have only been together 3 yrs.  She saw my renewed interest and shared with me that many brain related illness are sometimes caused by thought.  In other words, if I drink from a coffee mug for a couple hours a day I am reminded of CH's 50+ sips everyday.  If I am on a message board researching and posting and replying an hour or so a day, I am focused on CH's once again.  She thinks before you know it, all this thought about CH's that were tucked away in my subconscious for the past 5 yrs have now become a part of my everyday conscious and it might trigger the beast.  It is certainly possible, God forbid. 

Just wanted to share this concept for further discussion among those of us who may have insight to this topic...any more input?

Brew wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 1:21pm:


Great input, thanks for sharing, but my argument for discussion is that thinking about it may induce a cycle.  So if you think about it long enough and hard enough to get rid of it forever, you are still thinking about it, thus potentially triggering and/or prolonging a cycle. 

Wives (and husbands for that matter) say the craziest things. Her timing is good though - she could have waited to say something like that in the middle a cluster headache hit when it would really resonate with greatest impact.

Talk to Danielpeterson He'll fill you in on that thinkin thing.

               Potter

[quote author=636E6E696E6E010 link=1265080966/12#12 date=1265139332]So if I think about cancer too much will I get cancer?  or MS? or Fibromyalgia? or Arthritis? or Asthma?  None of these conditions are affected by "thinking about them."  It makes me crazy when someone says if I didn't think about my headaches so much, maybe I wouldn't get them.


With all due respect...Cancer, Fibro, Arthritis nor Asthma are brain related illness which is the topic.  Not sure about MS which does have similarities to Ch's.

You are correct.

  Can you share with me some "brain related illnesses" that ARE caused or triggered by "thinking" about them?

Jeannie

Jeannie wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2010 at 3:09pm:

Depression and stress are the only two that come to mind.  Both of which are psychological disorders and CH's as mentioned above from Brew is a neurological disorder.  This makes sense now!  Thank you for participating in this discussion.  It clarifies quite alot and am now comfortable letting my wife know of this and not to be concerned that too much thought on Ch's will trigger a cycle...because the beast attacks whenever it damn well pleases!!!  Thanks again to all

Yeah you're just being smart for researching ahead of a possible episode.

You've had 'em starting 30 years ago and have gone for 5 years now without an episode?

That is commonplace. Really. Apparently it hasn't been researched, but it's as plain as the writing on this board that this is a very common pattern. You're describing my experience to a T in fact.

I'm hoping yours have just burned out, heck I hoped mine had burned out, but with me they came back, the episodes are just getting further and much further spaced apart.

I guess you and I are a couple of the lucky ones so far.