It´s really sad when the real medicine is forbidden and chemical toxic substances are forced upon us and our children . . . . 95% sucess rate is what chemical pharma can only dream of relating to cluster headache.
These substance are also very useful for treating and in some cases (allegedly) curing depression which interestingly has an association with migraine and cluster headaches too (unless I'm mistaken). Hopefully we will get change because the research as with cannabis extracts is growing all the time (no pun intended).
I believe all drugs should be legal. If you want to create programs for people who need help voluntarily then go for it, you'll have my support. If you want to by force prohibit people from doing what they want with their own body, and being responsible for the consequences of their choice then I am very much against that.
As with any drug there can be some real negative effects. Yet any substance can be abused, and that is the responsibility of the person.
LSD...
I had lots of friends that did LSD. I didn't I am weird enough without needing any assistance.
I had one friend out of many though that had a very bad reaction to it after years of doing it.
He was a smart guy, and had lots of girls fawning after him, calling him Tall Dark and Handsome, he played bass guitar. I'd chat with him and hang out with him sometimes.
I hadn't seen him for a couple of years once I was in college and I happened to go to this party. He walked in, his hair was all over, he was dirty, his teeth were black, and he sat on a couch and he just stared blankly ahead of him...
I asked "what happened to him?"
I was told "He ate an entire sheet of acid and has been like that every sense".
He is the only friend I have that this happened to. My parents are hippies and were around when it was popular. They had a few friends fried by LSD in the early days, but for the most part it doesn't seem to have such an effect.
Due to the illegal nature the safety of batches of LSD cannot be verified, so it could be bad batch, or simply overdose which is likely the case with my friend.
Years after that I'd see him on the side of the road with a bicycle somewhere staring up at the sky... I'd look and not see anything there.
It really messed him up, but eating a sheet of acid was a pretty dumb thing to do if that is indeed what he did.
thanks for the reply. well said! >>...the safety of batches of LSD cannot be verified >> thats why I said "No thanks" a tousand times on festivals. I worked as visual artist on many of these psychodelic open air like BOOM 4 times, and similar all over the globe. I saw a lot of really bad messed up people too, not my direct friends but just really "lost souls" unable to find their homebase - no passport - no tshirt - no nothing + completely tilt.
BUT i found a medical article maybe to add here on the headache topic. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102410363490 Have a great day!
Very rarely. She used to have them pretty frequently. Now it is not nearly as often. Years ago she had them easily once a week, and they could be debilitating.
I've only had one in my life that was even close to bad. When parts of my vision disappeared and I was moving an invoice I was reading around so I could see what was under the blank spots in my vision.
I told my wife... she gave me something and said I was having a migraine and it knocked me on my ass. I woke up many hours later groggy but never having experienced the severe pains I see her go through.
She'd had it temporarily paralyze parts of her body, and all sorts of things like that.
I do know trying to keep stress down, and working on not getting as worked up over certain things helps.
Also limiting exposure to things that trigger it like striped, checkered, polka dot clothes, flashing lights like strobe light, sudden flashes of sunlight through the window into her eyes, etc.
These days it is usually getting flashed by bright sunlight reflected off of something that triggers hers.
I've only had one in my life that was even close to bad. When parts of my vision disappeared and I was moving an invoice I was reading around so I could see what was under the blank spots in my vision.
That must be scary if you don't normally get them!
She'd had it temporarily paralyze parts of her body, and all sorts of things like that.
Wow that is pretty bad and worrying too.
These days it is usually getting flashed by bright sunlight reflected off of something that triggers hers.
That happens to me too - particularly if I am driving and the sun is low on the horizon - I think it is a common trigger.
medical studies show a great positive effect of psylocybe mushroom in extreme cluster headache attacks.
http://clusterheadacheinfo.wdfiles.com/local--files/file%3Aclusterheadachesresponsivetopsilocybin-halpernssewellpo/ClusterheadachesResponsiveToPsilocybin_HalpernSSewellPope.pdf
Yeah, don't need to chance imprisonment and asset forfeiture for using something like that though.
It´s really sad when the real medicine is forbidden and chemical toxic substances are forced upon us and our children . . . . 95% sucess rate is what chemical pharma can only dream of relating to cluster headache.
These substance are also very useful for treating and in some cases (allegedly) curing depression which interestingly has an association with migraine and cluster headaches too (unless I'm mistaken). Hopefully we will get change because the research as with cannabis extracts is growing all the time (no pun intended).
I believe all drugs should be legal. If you want to create programs for people who need help voluntarily then go for it, you'll have my support. If you want to by force prohibit people from doing what they want with their own body, and being responsible for the consequences of their choice then I am very much against that.
As with any drug there can be some real negative effects. Yet any substance can be abused, and that is the responsibility of the person.
LSD...
I had lots of friends that did LSD. I didn't I am weird enough without needing any assistance.
I had one friend out of many though that had a very bad reaction to it after years of doing it.
He was a smart guy, and had lots of girls fawning after him, calling him Tall Dark and Handsome, he played bass guitar. I'd chat with him and hang out with him sometimes.
I hadn't seen him for a couple of years once I was in college and I happened to go to this party. He walked in, his hair was all over, he was dirty, his teeth were black, and he sat on a couch and he just stared blankly ahead of him...
I asked "what happened to him?"
I was told "He ate an entire sheet of acid and has been like that every sense".
He is the only friend I have that this happened to. My parents are hippies and were around when it was popular. They had a few friends fried by LSD in the early days, but for the most part it doesn't seem to have such an effect.
Due to the illegal nature the safety of batches of LSD cannot be verified, so it could be bad batch, or simply overdose which is likely the case with my friend.
Years after that I'd see him on the side of the road with a bicycle somewhere staring up at the sky... I'd look and not see anything there.
It really messed him up, but eating a sheet of acid was a pretty dumb thing to do if that is indeed what he did.
thanks for the reply. well said! >>...the safety of batches of LSD cannot be verified >> thats why I said "No thanks" a tousand times on festivals. I worked as visual artist on many of these psychodelic open air like BOOM 4 times, and similar all over the globe. I saw a lot of really bad messed up people too, not my direct friends but just really "lost souls" unable to find their homebase - no passport - no tshirt - no nothing + completely tilt.
BUT i found a medical article maybe to add here on the headache topic. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102410363490 Have a great day!
I she taking medication for it?
Very rarely. She used to have them pretty frequently. Now it is not nearly as often. Years ago she had them easily once a week, and they could be debilitating.
I've only had one in my life that was even close to bad. When parts of my vision disappeared and I was moving an invoice I was reading around so I could see what was under the blank spots in my vision.
I told my wife... she gave me something and said I was having a migraine and it knocked me on my ass. I woke up many hours later groggy but never having experienced the severe pains I see her go through.
She'd had it temporarily paralyze parts of her body, and all sorts of things like that.
I do know trying to keep stress down, and working on not getting as worked up over certain things helps.
Also limiting exposure to things that trigger it like striped, checkered, polka dot clothes, flashing lights like strobe light, sudden flashes of sunlight through the window into her eyes, etc.
These days it is usually getting flashed by bright sunlight reflected off of something that triggers hers.
That must be scary if you don't normally get them!
Wow that is pretty bad and worrying too.
That happens to me too - particularly if I am driving and the sun is low on the horizon - I think it is a common trigger.
Mine was not scary, because I didn't realize what was going on and it hadn't started hurting yet.
I just told her I had to move an invoice around to read the total because there were like blank spots.
She said I was having a migraine and that stuff usually happens before the pain. She gave me something and it knocked me on my ass.
So I never did feel the pain.
It wasn't that scary. Some of them that have happened to her have been pretty scary. Like I said she doesn't have them nearly as often now.
You are braver than me! I would convince myself it was a retinal detachment or a stroke!
I think it changes with age - I used to get them a lot more as a kid and a teenager so I wonder if there is some hormonal component.