I joined the site 7 years ago when I had my first cycle. I had no idea what it was but the god people here helped confirm my suspicions and I was officially diagnosed a couple of years later.

I consider myself very lucky in that I am a very mild sufferer compared to so many others. For 5 years I had a 3 month cycle from Mid May to mid August and another short one during the month of january. Rarely ever more than one a day and almost always gone within 25 minutes.

2 years ago during my big cycle, I came across an obscure suggestion of using 86% dark chocolate under the tongue as an abortive. One square, chew it up and hold it under your tongue as long as you can before it melts away. Any less than a full square or less than 86% didn't help me. I had tried all of the usual suspects, ice, heat, caffeine, energy drinks etc and none worked more than 1 in 10 times for me. I tried the chocolate and it knocked them out in about 10 minutes 7 of 10 times for the last 2 years. Unfortunately it seems to have stopped working this cycle. It is cheap and easy to try and I am thankful for all of the pain it saved me. Hopefully if you have not heard of it and tried it, it might work for you.

Even more help came from a more familiar combo of verapamil and melatonin. 240mg of V and 10mg of M per day completely disrupted my cycles making them very unpredictable but also prevented at least half of them from ever occurring when compared to the previous 5 years before I was taking them together.

I am finally getting O2 now though. My regulator and mask will be here next week and I have sourced a 150 cu ft tank and supplier to buy locally. Can't get it soon enough as I am in the middle of the worst cycle I have had in 3 years. Thanks to the folks here for all of the info on welders O2. I was prescribed O2 several years ago but could not find any medical supply to fill the Rx unless I was on Medicare.

I feel bad for not coming here and sharing my experience with the chocolate before now.

Rob