http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa This is a web Support Group for people suffering from this condition called Cluster Headaches/CH in Africa. I suffer from Cluster Headaches myself and I am not a medical professional. The contents of this site, the Message Board and the links are there solely for information. Please contact a medical professional to get diagnosed. What is a Cluster Headache? Cluster headaches are unilateral thus only affecting one side of the head. It has been noted that the headache can switch sides from time to time. They start suddenly and the pain escalates fast into a severe pain compared to a knife stuck into the affected eye and near that temple. The pain can last from a few minutes to sometimes 3 hours. Cluster periods can last for a few weeks or months. The eye becomes red and tears, the nose runs while congested, the face, hair, jaw and ear becomes sensitive and sometimes painful on the affected side. The person experiencing a "Cluster attack" is agitated and cannot lie down or sit still. This results frequently in banging the head restless pacing and rocking to and fro. This headache is known to wake the sufferer from sleep at regular times in the night. en JazzCH JazzCH Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:52:00 +0200 daily 1 This from Pink Shark Mark on using ginger as an abortive for low level hits: I've mentioned this several times on clusterheadaches. Com over the years. For some reason, very few people have commented on it. I came across it in a book on migraines years and years ago. Apparently it's a pretty well-known thing among migraineurs. For some even just drinking ginger ale or eating gingersnap cookies helps. I found that eating fresh ginger root isn't as effective (and it's a lot more of a pain in the butt shredding and dicing it besides) so I stick with the powdered ginger. Health food stores and bulk food places usually have tons of the stuff and it's not that expensive. If you just buy those little spice jars you'll pay through the nose for it. Dosing is simplicity itself -- mix up half a teaspoon of the powdered ginger in some water and glom it down. You'll have to rinse out the glass and drink that as well since the powder doesn't... Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:52:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Using-ginger-as-an-abortive-for-low-level-hits/17/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Using-ginger-as-an-abortive-for-low-level-hits/17/ August 16, 2006 BY JIM RITTER Health Reporter   Every New Year's Eve and July 4th, Bob Wold brews a tea containing a psychedelic drug from "magic mushrooms." Wold takes a small dose of the drug psilocybin -- just enough to make sounds more distinct and colors a bit brighter. "I get a couple giggles out of it," he said. "It's like having two or three beers." But Wold doesn't take "shrooms" for the four-hour high. Rather, he has found that psilocybin is the only drug that prevents one of the most painful conditions known to man, cluster headaches.     Bob Wold, shown by the pond of his Lombard home, suffers from cluster headaches. (RICH HEIN/ SUN-TIMES)       CLUSTER HEADACHES   More common in men.   ... Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:43:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Pain-sufferer-turns-to-shrooms/15/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Pain-sufferer-turns-to-shrooms/15/ If you suffer from this condition, I want you to know that you are not alone and that HOPE is out there.   Click on the "Message Board" Link on the Right and join our community.   Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:53:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Support-Group-for-Cluster-Heads-in-Africa/14/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Support-Group-for-Cluster-Heads-in-Africa/14/ This is serious stuff...Beer contains female hormones! Last month, National University of Lesotho scientists released the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption. The theory is that beer contains female hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women. To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour period. It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects: Argued over nothing. Refused to apologize when obviously wrong. Gained weight. Talked excessively without making sense. Became overly emotional. Couldn't drive. Failed to think rationally Had to sit down while urinating. No further testing was considered necessary.     Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:50:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Beer-Contains-Female-Hormones/16/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Beer-Contains-Female-Hormones/16/ Clouds bully their way across the sky Dark and grey the challenge Heavy looms the moisten smell Battle raging balance   Light so blinding bright flash by Blade sinks deep in fleshy billow The wound a gaping tear Weeping like a willow   Down to earth the tears do run It's fall on solid ground Thirstily to drain away Where new life's to be found   Now as the rainbow lifts her head Sleep falling from her eyes Her vision is the smiling sun With colour bright the skies   We never think the day will come That happiness is true But after every stormy cloud The rainbow whispers through Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:00:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Battle-Won/10/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Battle-Won/10/  Link: http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=322883&ssid=28&sid=ENV London, Sept15: The Beatles made a bold statement in the 60s by singing ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’, which was at that time believed to be a front for hallucinatory experiences after consuming LSD. And now, over 40 years later, scientists have found that the taboo drug may actually have some benefits, in that they may help abort cluster headaches. Cluster headaches is a problem which is characterized by excruciating pain that may last from fifteen minutes to up to three hours if left untreated. In the chronic form, the attacks can happen up to eight times a day, with no period of remission lasting longer than a month. Researchers at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts claim that their study is the first formal look at the therapeutic benefits of LSDs in 40 years. Lead researcher Andrew Sewell says that... Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:48:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/LSD-might-help-cure-cluster-headaches/12/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/LSD-might-help-cure-cluster-headaches/12/ If you suffer from this condition, I want you to know that you are not alone and that HOPE is out there.   Click on the "Message Board" Link on the Right and join our community.   Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:30:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Support-Group-for-ClusterHeads-in-Africa/4/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Support-Group-for-ClusterHeads-in-Africa/4/ Cluster headaches are unilateral thus only affecting one side of the head. It has been noted that the headache can switch sides from time to time. They start suddenly and the pain escalates fast into a severe pain compared to a knife stuck into the affected eye and near that temple. The pain can last from a few minutes to sometimes 3 hours. Cluster periods can last for a few weeks or months. The eye becomes red and tears, the nose runs while congested, the face, hair, jaw and ear becomes sensitive and sometimes painful on the affected side. The person experiencing a "Cluster attack" is agitated and cannot lie down or sit still. This results frequently in banging the head restless pacing and rocking to and fro. This headache is known to wake the sufferer from sleep at regular times in the night. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:27:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/What-is-a-Cluster-Headache/3/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/What-is-a-Cluster-Headache/3/ According to the International Headache Society: Episodic - at least 2 cluster periods lasting 7 to 365 days and separated by pain-free remission periods of greater or equal to 1 month. Chronic - attacks reccur over more than 1 year without remission periods or with remission periods lasting less than 1 month. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:22:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Episodic-or-Chronic/2/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Episodic-or-Chronic/2/ If you suspect that you suffer from this condition, please contact a Neurologist in your area for a diagnosis. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:20:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/1/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/1/ Afro-Latin rhythms float lazily between the tall palm trees on a humid breeze, like the waves lapping the Mozambican shores.   Every obscure little tavern becomes a hive of activity filled with sweaty human forms, swaying to the passionate beat under the starlit African sky.   Suddenly an eerie silence descends upon this small East African coastline.   A total power black-out, again... it is as if the whole nation is holding its breath.   The minutes drag by.   Then a faint cheer starts from the South and moves like a Mexican wave through the darkness to the North and in its wake, lights start to flicker on.   The power is back… now Friday night can go on. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:55:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/It-is-Friday-night/9/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/It-is-Friday-night/9/ I stare down the precipice, looking at my own reflection Mirrored moonlight in the mist I pass me by… with no intention   I hear my own voice call, echo’s as it drifts… Resound off hollow floor then wall where tears like water drip   Vast caverns of emotions, my heart a drooping Dhali clock Despite my best intentions waves break against the rock   Fog-cloaked dampen haze, the footpath now but gone While cloying tendrils in this daze pull me toward that sad, sad song   I do not want to shout, I do not want to scream I just want to be lost in this… my constant dream   The pain that ripped my brain apart… It’s done, it’s gone… only its shadow now lingers on   This weary mist won’t lift; it would not let me be I am not blind… yet still… I cannot see     Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:04:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Mist/11/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Mist/11/ Colour my emotions, tinted nuances smoked with grey Letters forming words but... there's nothing I can say Pale dawn of feelings, touched with subtle loss Where did I leave tomorrow... and the tag of cost? Passion turned to silence, solace I don't find It's a crying shame, passing lovers gliding in glades of silken mist never to know or call you by your name... Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:44:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Colour-My-Emotions/7/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Colour-My-Emotions/7/ Syllables swollen on the tongue A phallus of excretions that cannot be undone Sounds swim sluggish through cloying air To reverberate anvils hidden in skulls and hair The vernacular limp with impotence Only timbre climax in cosmic resonance Ears see what escapes the eye Livid colours flood the cerebral sky Syntax caress neurons with carnal delight Images explode… senses in darkness… now light   Tendrils resound through ravenous caverns Incantations echo about naked liaisons To ravish those ruins of sobriety That hushes the brazen ardour of society Corruption tears, spewing sordid decay With gusto and zest over flaccid lips in dismay Savagely it rips our world apart Our eyes fly open with a defiant start Ears listen to hear the voice of the mind Then heard… and listened… to its own kind Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:24:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Power-of-a-Word/6/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/The-Power-of-a-Word/6/ Africa… O, Mother Land Break of dawn…dewdrops gives birth to perfect form Then balance on the precipice Of every grassy knoll, fold and leafy bend A girl is born, one single life A beginning not an end.  Africa… O, Savage Land Grabs then holds one single life to breathe your scorching air Dusty winds blow to and fro While beetle song on heat wave grow This girl is strong, a lion cub Her destiny has just begun.  Africa… O, Land of Beauty Tears your daylight tongue will lick after stormy clouds drift by Hope… a rainbow to fill your blood stained sky As the old day lay down to die The girl will become a woman one day Africa’s voice, in her heart, will stay. Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:02:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Africa/5/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Africa/5/ Link: http://www.jibjab.com/originals/originals/jibjab/movieid/70 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:53:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Drugs-I-need/13/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/Drugs-I-need/13/ I am Woman. . . Moulded from mans rib, I came to being Intrinsically divine, so closely from his heart Mystical my unity from living bone Dust no participant in my advent My light to earth a Heaven send I am Woman. . . Bound by blood to Mother Earth My sacrifice a tidal flow, a womb of fruitful bearing New life from luscious garden grow Mists of precious scent my trail A knowing smile beneath my veil I am Woman. . . Shrouded in mystery, the secret that I be Men vying to unlock, this hidden passage, for all time The angels sing hosannas, the devil grind his stone Girls will grow to womanhood, enigmas you will see The words "I am Woman" resound through history. Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:46:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/I-am-Woman/8/ http://www.blogigo.com/ClusterHeadaches_Africa/I-am-Woman/8/