Thanks for all your input Bob. I am going to try it too. Seem to be getting alot of shadows lately and the energy strips help the shadows to a certain point. they help for a few hours and then i have to take them again. They energy strips seem to really be helping my migraine friends which is wonderful. Just wish they would work a little better for us. I guess it has been alot of wishful thinking.

It's been 11 days since my last post on this subject and I've tried the 5 Hour Energy shots ( a half bottle, about 1 oz.) a dozen times. Most of the shots have helped reduce the Kip number from 6 to 3. They also are good to get rid of a shadow, most of the time. I've tried the Red Bull type drinks but can't stand the taste unless it's real cold and gulping down a cold drink isn't something I like. The 1 oz. energy shots are quicker and easier but still taste like skunk poop. I recommend others try this stuff. It may help and it may not but I think it is worth the try.
This thread started about Sheets Energy strips...I've tried them and found they are only, sometimes, good for low level shadows.

i have used caffiene alone for a long time before i got diagnosed.  when i went to SFAS, i knew i couldnt bring my energy drinks or coffee with me, so i made a past out of guarana pills and caffiene pills.  i got a tube of baby toothpaste, emptied it, and filled it with the paste i made from the pills.  whenever i would go to sleep, i would act like i was brushing my teeth with my "no-spit baby toothpaste" and then try to quickly go to sleep before it started to kick in.  since i was only getting a couple hours of sleep a night, i was usually tired enough to still fall asleep. 

after i got diagnosed, right before i went to iraq, i remembered the crushed pill paste thing working a lot faster than just taking a tablet as they are.  i stocked up on taurine pills, caffiene pills, and guarana pills.  before each mission, i would dissolve them in a small bottle and have that on my kit, just in case.  it usually did the trick.

what point am i getting at? 
i just found pills at walmart called "stress tabs".  they have about the same ingredients you would find in an energy drink, and you get 75 pills for about 6 dollars.  im going to try dissolving a couple into some Kool Aid and see if i can make my own energy drink. 

for the cost, it might just be worth it.  it would be far cheaper than Sheets, shots, or drinks.

Does anyone know where I can get these in the UK? I'm probably in an ideal position to try 'em without any external influences.
Won't get any meds until I see the doc on Monday and ran out of O2 yesterday morning (horrible, horrible night). The delivery van just rang me up to say they've broken down. They'll try to get to me today but aren't promising anything.
I've been out and about this morning looking for these (and melatonin which I think is prescription only here) with no joy. Not in Boots, Superdrug, Holland & Barrett or Sainsbury's anyway.
Cheers
Steve

After all this time I still found Stackers 2 Energy Shots to be "it" for me.  It really did work as an abort some of the time.  I don't believe it was a fluke.  It worked very well for shadows.  And sometimes if I caught a CH in the very beginning.  After all these years of not having a working abort (other than darn ICE and cold showers) This was great.  I know everyone is different, so not everyone will have the same results.

whooligun wrote on Jun 25^th, 2012 at 11:48am:

It's not a bandwagon.  It's just putting it out there what has or hasn't worked.  That's part of what this message board is all about.

*edited to add... The medications we take are chemicals.

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Seeing as some people had some success with this stuff, I bought a box and will try it when I'm in a cycle again (hopefully never).