Posted by Billy Vaughn (63.204.101.99) on June 08, 2000 at 20:12:18:
In Reply to: 24 years down, only 40 or so more to go... posted by Billy Vaughn on June 08, 2000 at 00:53:30:
That post is about another form of headaches... I wasn't talking about ch really.
>Read your post, Billy and I agree with some >others, this does not sound like ch at all.
>More high blood pressure or sinuses. Or meds.
>You say your doc gives you meds, and if those
>are pain killers, you might think of painkiller
>related hedaches. They tend to become chronic too. - There is a specific name for these headaches which are not related to migraines at all (i think), there is a scientific name for them but I didn't memorize it. I know what they are.
>I'm certainly not a Doctor, Billy. However,
>after having Cluster headaches for 13 yrs. and >researching them and learnign from all these
>neat people at this site, I can almost with all >certainty say, Clusters aren't triggered by the >things you mentioned. Lifting your kids up, >bending over, making Love.
I'm not a chronic cluster sufferer, i'm episodic, I'm a chronic migraine sufferer. The clusters just come around a couple of times a year to make sure i'm not getting to cocky. I do get some rebound headaches, but that is from the motrin I take for my back. Neck and shoulder tension will trigger a cluster. So I have to relax my back muscles which spasm and what not if I don't take care to be gentle.
And my blood pressure is 120 / 80. That's perfect, there is nothing wrong with that. I do have sinus trouble from time to time but those headaches are different. I ...
it really doesn't matter to me... I'll go away and look somewhere else...
none of this is gonna change anything anyway...