Posted by Marcus Pennell on November 13, 1998 at 16:45:03:
In Reply to: Re: How to stop a Cluster Headache in 5 seconds. posted by Jim F on November 12, 1998 at 22:44:11:
I've taken plenty of advice: Three doctors (MD) have confirmed that all I am doing is causing a partial faint - no worse than standing up too quickly. One alternative healer cautioned against the technique saying that I was messing with a very powerful trigger point in the body. OK, I said, but I NEED to mess with that point because I'm in PAIN. Perhaps that is what it is there for: to be messed with in times of extreme pain.
Anyway, I've been doing it for 11 years without any ill effects (apart from once falling off a dining chair and banging my head on the way down). It is certainly a lot kinder to the body than filling it with toxic drugs. I almost lost my left foot through over-use of ergotamine once, and after learning the technique I halved the number of pain killers I was getting through.
Regards,
Marcus