Cluster headaches are one of the more painful and crippling conditions that afflict human beings, often driving sufferers to the brink of suicide and beyond. Conventional medicine has no answers — but patients are finding much-needed relief through psychedelic substances.

No one knows what causes cluster headaches, but far too many people feel their effects: An eye pick through the eye. A demon crushing your skull. Worse than a severe migraine. That’s how people described their cluster headaches in this Newsweek story. Most pharmaceutical treatments are only marginally effective at best, and many have awful side effects. However, when every other remedy has failed, people who suffer from cluster headaches have found success using a technique called “busting,” treating the headaches with repeated doses of psilocybin or LSD.

“Psilocybin and LSD are proven effective for treating cluster headaches,” Robert Wold wrote in a newsletter for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. “In many cases these treatment methods end a cluster headache cycle and prevent a cluster headache cycle from returning.”



Wold, founder of the Clusterbusters group, which promotes research and awareness of psychedelic cluster headache treatment, estimates there are about 400,000 people who suffer from cluster headaches in the United States. “The publicity that continues to be generated through medical journals, documentaries, and major news outlets has educated thousands of patients, enabling them to make fact based decisions on the use of psychedelics as a treatment option,” he wrote.

Indeed, psilocybin has changed the lives of cluster headache sufferers like John Fletcher. Fletcher, who published his story on Reset last year, tried busting his headaches with psilocybin doses in 2014 after 35 years of intense pain that no pharmaceutical intervention could relieve. “It has been three months since my last dose and I have been completely CH free!” he wrote. “I just can’t say enough about it and being CH free has completely changed my life.”

There is more than just anecdotal reports to back up the effectiveness of psychedelics. A 2006 Yale study published in the Neurology journal interviewed 53 people who used psilocybin or LSD to treat their cluster headaches. “Twenty-two of 26 psilocybin users reported that psilocybin aborted attacks; 25 of 48 psilocybin users and 7 of 8 LSD users reported cluster period termination; 18 of 19 psilocybin users and 4 of 5 LSD users reported remission period extension,” the study claims. “Research on the effects of psilocybin and LSD on cluster headache may be warranted.”

In 2010, scientists followed up with a non-psychotropic chemical related to LSD and found that it was also effective in stopping cluster headaches. Researchers speculate that the substances work by shrinking the brain’s blood vessels, which stops the nerves from being pinched.

There is one major catch to psychedelic cluster headache treatment, of course: Both psilocybin and LSD are strictly prohibited in the United States by the federal government, which considers them drugs of abuse with no medical value. That not only means that further research is difficult to perform, it also requires sufferers to break the law to acquire and use the substances, risking their freedom and their livelihood in order to try the only remedy that can put a stop to their misery.

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Cheers, Hoppy.
   

I was pleased to read you've been pain free for the past
18mths from busting, and able to enjoy your holiday in
USA. What a difference it makes! Not having to worry
about the beast coming along for the ride.

Best, Hoppy.

What do you think will happen with the  5 MeO dalt, as far as availability goes ?
Whats the options for someone like me down under getting a supply and giving it a go ?
The regime is working for me at the minute, but I'm sure there are others with that burning question " how do I get my hands on this stuff !!!!   ?

cheers
colin

Here is a new page created just for folks like you Hoppy!
Good luck my friend! Glad the regimen is working. If you are CH free on the regimen then just a suggestion to not mess with a good thing but up to you. It is taking a single capsule of a micro dose of 5 MeO DALT every 5 days so it simplifies things a bit but as with ANY treatment we use a thorough education is in order so understanding all the information is the only way to approach any treatment. EDUCATION...Is the key to destroying the beast.  Most have zero side effects, just stops CH in it's tracks. It is another option. NOT A CURE... But a PROCESS... To be treated as all busting treatments using a Tryptamine... John

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About mushrooms. My neurologist also advised me to use it. How much does it make you change as in personality?

Dear Comrades!

I`m a periodic CH sufferer for 6 years. After searching a lot for the right alternative treatment, I came across the theory that CH would have a strange link to oxygen deficiency. The theory would reveal how your diet and sleep disorders may lead to immune diseases, and CH, just as cancer, would be one of them. The theory made sense since I knew about my sleep apnea, pollen allergy and also that my diet consisted much too much hydrogenated oils and meat. I suddenly became a vegetarian and tried to stay away of all the bad oils that were suspected to be the main cause of my cells not being able to breathe properly.
My symptoms always appear in the summer and last 40 days, the attacks coming at 5AM every 48h or anytime when triggered by anything. I`ve been on this diet for 2 years now and my symptoms have diminished by 90%! I end up my researches by sticking to the Budwig diet and  wish it would work just as good for everyone else! You can learn all you need at budwig-diet.co.uk
And one more thing that helped a lot was inhaling japanese mint oil at the onset of attacks. I usually make a pipe out of paper, dip one end into the oil to let it absorb a few drops, and inhale trough the pipe on the right nostril, on the side it hurts, until the attack is gone. I usually make it so strong I feel every sniff burns and freezes my whole head. It`s unbelievable but it seems to be just as effective as the oxygen tank method.
There is much valuable info on the net about how oils work and how they affect the mylelin shield of our cells, and even sclerosis is supposedly being treated effectively by the same principles.
I hope it works with you too and pass on the "knowledge"...