Piercing Cluster-Headaches, what do you do?

[Enlightenedpsych2]

I avoid light, sound and keep a cool cloth over my eyes and nasal passages which keeps me from wonderfing if my allergies just have grown into annoying cluster-headaches. Not too give either prognosis a boost in occurring because thoughts become things, I fend off the allergy with double-sided deep breathing or blow till I can't anymore. If the pain is really intense, I have been known to immerse in a tea-tree oil bath (2 drops max, very potent), take an Alleve (bad bad bad) and sleep with the door closed, windows open and fan blowing up above. I would also vacuum everything upstairs just because I wanted to breathe less dust.

I notice I can exacerbate these type of headaches when I eat the wrong foods, even if they are according to my bloodtype, at different times in my cycle. Many carbs create more estrogen, more estrogen gets ovarian cyst bigger and we don't want that PLUS the hedaches are too intense and we avoid that also . . . So and you ?

[Renee]

I got cluster headaches when I had my son...the doc told me I was having them because of the epideral I received. The doc was right...the headaches went a way.
Also I did have cysts on my ovary, infact the left ovary cyst was as big as my uterus... so had everything removed...now dealing with hot flashes... :)
Good luck to you, just wanted you to know..someone out here knows the pain you are going through...and my house will send you good thoughts...blessed be

[Enlightenedpsych2]

Nearly a year later, I read this post and find how amazing just bringing up a point allowed for my episodes of cluster headaches to slowly dissipate and finally only 'happen' on rare occasions. The complete removal from my diet ANY white processed refined sugar has been a key factor in not being sluggish anymore, mentally alert, less bouts of insomnia, no cysts on either ovary, vanished hot flashes, and of course no increased estrogen production to start creating problems, again.

I am grateful I can hear my body. I am so in tune on certain days that the days I am not, are less problematic in terms of real physical symptommology that holds the average person back. Now the emotional floodgates well those just keep on letting stuff in and only letting it flow back out once properly dealt with . . . ah the joys of being human !