Based on my attacks over the last two days Im pretty sure I would fall into that 10% category.

Thank you for the motivation. It helps quite a lot to have someone able to accurately describe exactly the situation I'm going through right now.

It's probably because I'm tired and worn down that's making me feel so emotional, but the thought of someone I have never met taking the time out of their day to give me a boost really touched me. Thanks.

Yesterday I had 12 attacks according to my cluster diary. Most I've ever had that I can remember. It felt like I couldn't even lay my head down without feeling like a pressure was building up in my head.  It was terrible. Even when I wasn't having an attack, I was having lightning bolt like twangs of pain that would cause me to jerk my head. 

I took the loading dose as I mentioned and today I've yet to have a single attack. My head feels really fragile and kind of bruised but that's it. Fingers crossed.

Hello all, I have suffered CH attacks since 2002. The beginning of 2014 was the worst season ever. I began by taking melatonin to abort small attacks and this year I have found that pressing on the artery on the right side of my neck (LOTS OF PRESSURE) helped abort them too. Not happy with simply aborting them, but it was enough to get by.

Interestingly though, I have found that my headaches were triggered to prolonged exposure to EMF...cell towers more specifically.

Using an EMF meter, I was able to determine that my bedroom was bombarded by the radiation released by the tower, the wall closest to my head when i sleep specifically. During weekdays the signal would only be strongest in my room while other rooms were not. Weekends though were another story, all of the apartment was bombarded and the meter went crazy all over. The cell tower affecting me is 300 yards (+/- 50) away.

I was also able to confirm my sensitivity to EMF during my commute to work (25 miles). During my commute I drive by 8 or so cell towers. With no intent to BS, I was able to detect a nearby cell tower with the feeling of discomfort on my face, mainly on the right side. I blamed this pain on a root canal I had done years ago on that same side and almost had that tooth extracted. My cell phone also triggered my attacks (Samsung and iphone).

My belief that EMF was triggering my attacks led me to interests in Faraday cages to absorb/deflect the signal. But as my CH attacks got worse I abandoned those ideas for the time being.

I read stuff online that led me to start taking Vitamin D (D3), Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc (Natures Way Brand). My sensitivity to EMF from cell towers has since decreased dramatically.

I don't believe this is the case for everyone, but if you want to take the test do the following:

1. Locate a cell tower far away and slowly approach it and check if you're feeling a CH shadow or facial discomfort.

2. If you do feel discomfort, drive around the city and locate cell towers simply by the CH shadow/discomfort.

3. Take a supplement containing the ingredients aforementioned and wash it down with a mineral water (higher calcium content recommended).

4. Wait a while and repeat steps 1 and 2.

You should notice a drastic drop in sensitivity.

EMF might not be your trigger, but its worth a shot especially if you live near a cell tower and have CH attacks mostly on the weekends. You might have deficiencies like I do.

I still plan on reducing the amount of EMF that enters my room somehow and get healthier to eliminate any deficiencies/excess I may have.

The EMF meter I used only registers 0-5 miligauss but would register more if it had a higher range, so the exact amount is not known at this point. Still debating on spending the money for a trustworthy one.

I hope this was none the less entertaining to read.
I am hoping to go the rest of the year CH free.

Good luck finding your treatments!

Can you tell us more about how you tried to use a Faraday cage, especially around the cage construction. A suitably constructed Faraday cage should block electric fields.

If you are blindfolded and are driven around on a random route by someone else are you able to identify cell phone towers?

Have you identified any other triggers? [/quote]

These are/were my triggers:
1. Pork
2. Alcohol
3. Ham/Deli cuts
4. Chocolate

I live in Chicago and commute to the northern suburbs. The Edens and the Spur is what I take. When I convinced myself that the tower near my house was causing/contributing to my CH attacks, I began to look for towers when I would get the shadow/facial discomfort. Never did I pay attention to how many I drove passed by until then. The first one that I picked up on was on the inbound Edens where it merges with the Kennedy...there are towers on each side, I had a near attack while on the left lane and aborted it with heavy controlled breathing and pressure on my neck.

On the way to work they are not so easy to feel since I don't believe the towers have as much output as in the traffic jam hours. I don't know how cell towers work but I am willing to bet that they adjust their output according to heavy usage.

I never tried the blind fold test, but i think I would be able to if I was off the supplements. Not gonna happen anytime soon though, sorry, do not want to risk it.

I compare the exposure to EMF like having a sunburn, the cell tower = the sun's rays and my facial nerves = the burnt skin. If I have been exposed to too much EMF from the tower (mostly in my sleep on the weekends), I will be extremely sensitive to it...especially my cell phone. Kind of like room temp water on a sunburned shoulders.

I was just beginning to learn about Faraday cages from what I found on the web. Didn't get a chance to think up a design but it involved a lot of aluminum foil. All I wanted was to attenuate the EMF to lower levels where the meter/detector would not be past full scale and maybe in the green (low scale).

The supplement treatment I am on is in its early stages, I still have the bruised head feeling...but no afraid of strong shadows at this point. I have not yet found my correct dosage, but I am working on it.

Happy reading

hey CC,
           yeah, im feeling for you !  as most would be here, we are all the same !!
ive recently been going thru a cycle, big shadows and a few single hits at night, BUT, nothing over about a 3-4, so ive titrated up on d3 and gradually getting the shadows under control. but, 12 months ago, when I wasn't on the d3 regime, my life would have been hell, 4 to 5 kip 8-10's a day. So, I have to tune the regime to suit my own situation.
sure, I thought the world was caving in when they returned a month ago, but I have to check myself and think back before the regime.
there's plenty of people with loads of good advice here, including the "guru" himself "batch".
  unfortunately im not one of those that go totally pain free, but, im working on it, im lifting my nmol up to 250 to see if that makes me sail thru future cycles.
So get yourself up there, get another test done so you have a reference point, take the maintenance dose of 10,000 there after, then after 2-3 months, get tested again to see if the maintenance dose is maintaining your levels. don't be frightened once your there, and shadows return, to do a week of titrating up, 20,000 per day and a 50,000 loading dose, as said before, you will be no where near toxicity levels,  you will find that level...
good luck and keep us informed how your going
colin