Hi ppl,since i found this board i started to approach my ch hits on a different way and learned how to use the o2 as an abbortive..
What brought me here was the fact that on the entire board i  didnt found a similar experience as mine,in the last 5-6 years since i had ch (usually 1 cycle a year) only in the last 2years since i began using o2 as an abbortive i experienced this,everytime my cycle starts 2-3 days of o2 ends my cycle...Any1 here had this happen?

And other thing i dunno if this are shadows or not,but usually beetween cycles i feel my forehead funny,dunno how to call it really,cause its not painfull just an annoiance,are this the so called SHADOWS u guys talk about here on board?

I dont take any meds also,could any meds help me with this forehead feeling like vasodilatators or similar?

Cluster headache pain is a unique pain unlike say a normal headache or a cut or a bump on the head. Cluster sufferers just know “that feeling”. Shadows are “that feeling” that may be short lived or last an hour. It’s that dreaded feeling that “Oh no, here it comes” but just doesn’t quite mature into a full blown CH attack.

davidj35 wrote on May 27^th, 2010 at 7:38pm:


no its not painfull,just feels like scratching,cant really describe it better

Forgot to mention,when i put my hand there or tighten the muscles in my forhead it goes away for some time

That doesn't sound like a shadow symptom to me.

If my shadows are typical, they feel like a CH at the beginning stages of an attack - not extremely painful yet.

Just curious Steve, how did you abort hits in previous cycles?