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Smarmie Doofus

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9. It sounds goofy, but look into chiropractic.
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:38 AM
Sep 2014

My recollection (no doubt a little distorted by retelling over the years) was that he essentially ended ( or at least interrupted) an 'every-single-day' cycle I was going through at the time.

My early mid-20s. ( I remember telling people it was as if he had "turned-off a switch".) But they came back later.

My impression is chiropractors don't really know what they're doing, but it stands to reason that if you move a lot of stuff around ... esp in the upper spine and lower cranial area where the neurology is so dense and complex..."something's got to give." (And be careful... that can work out in any # ways. Some of them unpleasant. ) In my case, it seemed to help significantly.

In the 70's and 80s all of the popular literature was about *migraine*, not clusters. So my info is hardly state of the art. I'm thinking ..... and hoping... that there may be more practical info available now, specific to clusters (at least to MDs) than there was back then.

GPs are fine but they can't know everything about everything.

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Cluster Headaches [View all] steelsmith Sep 2014 OP
a good friend of mine had them eShirl Sep 2014 #1
Thank you so much for the link. steelsmith Sep 2014 #5
It's been a LONG time. But.... Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #2
I heard that about diminishing with age, steelsmith Sep 2014 #6
It sounds goofy, but look into chiropractic. Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2014 #12
Sorry to hear that your a fellow suffer. RGinNJ Sep 2014 #3
And I am so sorry for you steelsmith Sep 2014 #7
The stabbing eye pain libodem Sep 2014 #4
Surprisingly steelsmith Sep 2014 #8
Very interesting libodem Sep 2014 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2014 #11
I said ice-pack upthread but ... you're right. Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #13
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