Posted by Sonya Banna on July 11, 1998 at 13:14:24:
OKAY, I got something new to pass on. It's about
drinking lots and lots of water before a cluster
attack. It helps reduce them and can make them
dissapear. This is how I found this trick. Four
years ago I went to the hospital during my usual
cycle of a bad bad bad headache in August. I told
the ER doctor that I get these painful headaches every
year - the same time of year and then they magically
disappear from my life but the following year, come back.
I was nursing at the time my young baby and the doctor
said I was probably suffering from dehydration from
not drinking enough liquids due to nursing. He told me
to go home and start drinking lots and lots of water.
To the point, he said, that I pee every 30 minutes. I
did this, and within 48 hours, my headaches had disappeared
for that season (1994).... anyway, as time went on... the
following year came and HERE come my headaches. Then
I went to a doctor who sent me to a neuro who told me
I had clusters! He said I was completely a "text book"
case. Anyway.... I was working out a my health club and
I was reading a health magazine WHILE on the excersice
bike. I saw an article on Excersice and Headaches. It
said that some people get headaches after excersise. They
said it was the same kind of thing that happens to some
(unlucky) men who have headaches after sex. They said
the simple cure was to drink lots and lots and lots of
water before excersise and to stay very hydrated. So
yesterday, I remembered all this. So I drank water all
day. Two glasses before bed. And drank a glass upon
waking up. My cluster headache should have hit by
this time today - BUT IT HAS NOT. It seems the same
treatment given for Excersise Headaches and Sex Headache
(not made up - that problem is REAL)... is to drink
water. It was the same cure that the ER doc gave me.
So, if nothing else... water is good for your kidneys.
So drink up my friends.... try at least 6 glasses
every day. Give it 48 to 72 hours and see if you don't
shorten your cycle. Seems to have done it for me!
Good luck and just trying to pass on my tricks.
I've prayed hard enough for them. Come visit me
at my web page at: http://members.abilnet.com/bbanna
Click on the female bannana (that's me) my hubby is
the male bannana (my last name is banna - get it?)
bad joke.