Hey Diamond...
Welcome aboard CH.com...
Your post caught my attention... Cluster Headache, Trigeminal Neuralgia and Graves' Disease add up to a perfect storm...
CH or TN are bad enough by themselves... Having Grave's on top of both of these two painful headache disorders makes them even worse... Moreover, trying to treat them if you have Graves, is a difficult task at best...
I've been tracking the progress of CH'ers here at CH.com who have posted that they've started the anti-inflammatory regimen with 10,000 IU/day vitamin D3. One of the comorbid conditions found with cluster headache is Graves' disease...
Hyperthyroidism will make treating cluster headaches problematic... Moreover, treatments for Graves' including removal of the thyroid, doping with radioactive iodine, or use of suppressive medications can easily lead to a thyroid and parathyroid hormone imbalance...
As both the thyroid and parathyroid hormones play essential roles in vitamin D3 and calcium homeostasis, an imbalance in one or both of these hormones can be troublesome for CH'ers.
I'm not a doctor so it's best you see your endocrinologist as this problem and it's association with cluster headache is something neurologists are not trained to handle.
When you see your endocrinologist, ask for the lab test for 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, a.k.a. 25(OH)D, the serum level metabolite of vitamin D3 along with tests for thyroid and parathyroid hormone levels.
The normal reference range for 25(OH)D is 30 to 100 ng/mL, but we have CH'ers with active CH reporting 25(OH)D serum concentrations as high as 55 and 61 ng/mL.
The exciting news is CH'ers who have gone pain free of their CH while taking the anti-inflammatory regimen with 10,000 IU/day or more vitamin D3 and then gone in for this lab test, have all reported serum concentrations of 25(OH)D in a range from 60 to 110 ng/mL.
To date from the information I've gathered since December of 2010, 105 out of the 140 CH'ers who started this regimen have experienced a significant reduction in the frequency and severity of their CH attacks... Most of them have gone pain free within three weeks after starting this regimen.
That's a raw efficacy of 75% and this leads me to say that the majority of people with cluster headache suffer needlessly from this terribly painful disorder due to a vitamin D3 deficiency.
Migraineurs and trigeminal neuralgia sufferers also respond to this regimen... Take a look at the following link and post # 798 from Akina near the end of the page... I think you'll find a fellow headache sufferer with a condition similar to TN who found relief taking the anti-inflammatory regimen with vitamin D3.
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Take care and please keep us posted.
V/R, Batch