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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
Go see your doctor. You'll get prednisone to take when you start having them frequently.
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Actually, I've been in treatment for years for them - pred is considered an old-line treatment; what they usually do now is give you verapamil to start taking at the onset of a cluster, and most commonly prescribed is straight oxygen during the headache (I don't want to bother with all that shit, I go to a window and breathe fresh air and it usually does the same thing).
My new neurologist specializes in headaches (his father was one of the people who did some of the definitive studies on clusters) gave me cafergot, a mixture of ergotamine and caffeine, to take an hour before bed (because the clusters usually come on an hour after going to sleep for me and a lot of people) and it's worked wonders.
The reason I posted the other night is that I forgot to take the cafergot early enough, and the cluster hit before the cafergot started to work
