Posted by Sue K on July 24, 1998 at 17:29:29:
After suffering through another 3 month cycle with these horrible headaches it happens that I was diagnosed with a sinus infection and put on antibiotics just 3 days ago. Since I have been taking the antibiotics there has been a significant change in the numher and severity of my clusters. During a chat session last night I asked those that were there if anyone had ever taken antibiotics while in a cluster cycle, there were 4 of us presently taking them and ALL of us had significant changes since doiing so.
I starting thinking back and trying to remember how many times this has happened to me before. In the beginning (13yrs. ago) when the doctors were treating my clusters as a sinus infection, I remember that as long as I stayed on antibiotics, they never actually became headaches.
For years they treated people with ulcers with all kinds of medications, gave them special diets, told them that they were caused by stress and excess stomach acid. Just recently it was discovered that ulcers are not in fact caused by any of those things but instead by a virus that is very easily treated with antibiotics!! Now this leaves a big question in my mind, could this monster that has claimed some of us for his own be something similar? If not is there something in these antibiotics that has significantly
reduced the severity for some of us?
I would be interested to know how many of you that are reading this have had a similar experience,, maybe, just maybe, something as simple as an antibiotic for the length of the cluster would work????? All responses would be greatly appreciated!