Cluster Nuts
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Hello all,
I’ve been absent for a while (well absent from here anyway) due to a batch of cluster headaches. I get them about every 12-18 months and this lot have lasted a bit longer than usual.
For those that are interested they are like a migraine on steroids that occur at roughly the same time of the day in the same part of the head every day for a while, in my case over the right eye at about 1-3am for 5 weeks. I gave up going to sleep before 3am as it enabled me to catch the headache as it started as opposed to it waking me up in full flow.
As you will appreciate this has left me some what knackered during the day and it been all I can do just to go to work let alone do some!Myself and SHMBO are just back from 2 weeks hols with the first week in the south west of Ireland (Kenmere) and the second knocking around at home, whilst I’m not quite 100% I’m certainly a hell of a lot better than I was 3 weeks go.
I looked in a couple of times and on one occasion there was 14 pages of new posts!! Let me say that again FOURTEEN PAGES, wow. I tried to read them all but a combination of painkillers and lethargy put paid to that idea! So I’m sure that I’ve missed an awful lot.
If there are any key posts I should look at from the past 4-5 weeks could you point me to them….. thanks
It makes me very proud to be a member here, to the point that I feel a slight sense of guilt that I ‘abandoned’ this place for so long.
I was going to rewrite the above sentence but it go me thinking - Isn’t it amazing that in an incredibly short time we’ve built (or revived a dying) community that can invoke such a feeling? Well done to all.
It’s nice to be back.
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its good to see you're back, I was wondering what happened to you...
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Oh, welcome back Paul - hope you're getting better now...
As for the "hot" topics - well, you can see where there are many posts or which icon is just "pulsating". Who would know what was interesting here in our dull lives? -
Welcome back Paul and very sorry to hear about the "migrains on steroids". After I broke my back and my neck, yep both at the same time because I don't do things by halves, I got terrible headaches that would pounce on me at any time. After a couple of years of them I suddenly realised that they had gone! I still get the occasional headache but that is only the price of the night before. I hope yours go away like mine did.
Cheers Bill -
let me be the first to say
GET YOUR ASS TO A HOSPITAL!
sounds like a tumor... or perhaps Glaucoma... you need a cat-scan and a pet-scan...your brain is too valuable for us to lose...
nice to have you back.
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Thanks all, its nice to be back.
Hey Kris, my ass has been to hospital, but that's another story
Don't worry about me loosing my brain, cluster headaches are a known thing much like migraines but with different symptoms, they come in 2 flavours chronic and episodic. The chronic ones are 3,4,5,6 etc a day, every day!! Luckily I have the episodic variety where I get 1 a day for 6-10 days then nothing for 12-18 months.If it wasn't for the magic drugs I have (Imigram and Zomig) then this would be a very very different post and would be being made by my wife or other family member....Get my drift...
Have a read of a couple of the example on this page and you may get an idea
http://www.clusterheadaches.com/But this batch is over and all is well again.
P.S. Was watching a Mythbusters repeat on Discovery and they were using Sketchup to design stuff for one of their tests. I think it was the one about the WWII airman who fell through a glass train station roof just as a bomb went off and it cushioned his fall.
P.P.S.
Is this anyone we know:
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Glad you are back Paul and doing better.
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