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footfootfoot · 02-09-2013, 12:03 AM

That sounds awful. Cluster headaches are apparently the most painful thing a human can endure, if wikipedia is to be believed.

orthodoc · 02-09-2013, 04:56 AM

When the barometer drops with a big storm, I get storm migraines like Nirvana. I had one episode of cluster headaches back in med school. While they were going on they occurred at precisely the same time each day (3:01 am, I remember well) and lasted 40 minutes; then one day they just stopped. They were bang-your-head-against-the-wall excruciating, but the good thing is you know they'll be gone in a few minutes. A really bad migraine (some of which have also made me bang my head against a wall) that continues through sleep and goes on for hours or days is worse, I think, if only because the misery is prolonged and you don't know when it'll end.

The bone pain from Neulasta on my first chemo cycle (later cycles weren't as bad) and my worst couple of migraines are the worst pains I've ever had. Labor and surgery were easier.

Griff · 02-09-2013, 07:27 AM

jesus

footfootfoot · 02-09-2013, 08:54 AM

Ouch.

Well, 3:01 seems odd. Are you sure it wasn't 4:00 am?

orthodoc · 02-09-2013, 09:52 AM

Luckily not ... from 4 to 6 am is the biological nadir when people are most likely to die. Dodged that bullet!

DanaC · 02-09-2013, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc

Luckily not ... from 4 to 6 am is the biological nadir when people are most likely to die. Dodged that bullet!

I so didn;t need to know that!!

Big Sarge · 02-09-2013, 01:48 PM

I hate needles. Why do nurses have to wake you up all night long just to see if you are alive?? Oh,you are not going to stick anything up my butt. Forget it.End of subject

Sundae · 02-09-2013, 01:53 PM

.. because you're so damned cute?

Big Sarge · 02-09-2013, 02:21 PM

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.. because you're so damned cute?

don't think so babe. i'm looking pretty rough. i appreciate the thought! BTW, I brought the book you sent me. Everybody gets a big laugh. Now that is so damned cute!

orthodoc · 02-09-2013, 02:23 PM

Hospitals are the place of no sleep.

Also of horrible tests you never knew existed. Feel better so you can get home and get some sleep!

Sundae · 02-09-2013, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Sarge

BTW, I brought the book you sent me. Everybody gets a big laugh. Now that is so damned cute!

Check your email on Valentines Day. I keep my promises

toranokaze · 02-10-2013, 06:55 AM

I know every thing I have done is pointless. My dream are just that I will never achieve them and have truly given up on any kind of success. Survival is my new goal if I can just survive not make anything great or meaningful not change the world not help just survive. I know I will never be happy I have accepted that. I am not depressed, just clear. I see how things arc in my life. Just survival is all that can be truly accomplished.

Big Sarge · 02-10-2013, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by toranokaze

I know every thing I have done is pointless. My dream are just that I will never achieve them and have truly given up on any kind of success. Survival is my new goal if I can just survive not make anything great or meaningful not change the world not help just survive. I know I will never be happy I have accepted that. I am not depressed, just clear. I see how things arc in my life. Just survival is all that can be truly accomplished.

I'm broken and can't be fixed. I once was a person of importance with a family. Now, I am a shell of what I was. I am coming to terms with it and simply putting one foot in front of the other. You made a good point & I agree. We all must accept the road we travel now which was built on the mistakes of when we were young and invincible.

footfootfoot · 02-10-2013, 12:10 PM

When we were young and invincible. I know the thing you speak precise.

Sarge, not to make light of what you are going through but you could re-frame your experience in a positive light. In many ways you are in an enviable position; you are a clean slate and free to re-invent yourself. Obviously, you have a more limited set of choices than you did when you were young and invincible, but you are now older and wiser and in a better position to see what didn't work in the past and make new choices based on that.

The hardest part is letting go of what you want or wanted, letting go of the desire for something you can't have.

Clodfobble · 02-10-2013, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The hardest part is letting go of what you want or wanted, letting go of the desire for something you can't have.

Amen to that, Ed Earl.

02-09-2013, 12:03 AM	#16
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	That sounds awful. Cluster headaches are apparently the most painful thing a human can endure, if wikipedia is to be believed. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-09-2013, 04:56 AM	#17
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	When the barometer drops with a big storm, I get storm migraines like Nirvana. I had one episode of cluster headaches back in med school. While they were going on they occurred at precisely the same time each day (3:01 am, I remember well) and lasted 40 minutes; then one day they just stopped. They were bang-your-head-against-the-wall excruciating, but the good thing is you know they'll be gone in a few minutes. A really bad migraine (some of which have also made me bang my head against a wall) that continues through sleep and goes on for hours or days is worse, I think, if only because the misery is prolonged and you don't know when it'll end. The bone pain from Neulasta on my first chemo cycle (later cycles weren't as bad) and my worst couple of migraines are the worst pains I've ever had. Labor and surgery were easier. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-09-2013, 07:27 AM	#18
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	jesus __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-09-2013, 08:54 AM	#19
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Ouch. Well, 3:01 seems odd. Are you sure it wasn't 4:00 am? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-09-2013, 09:52 AM	#20
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Luckily not ... from 4 to 6 am is the biological nadir when people are most likely to die. Dodged that bullet! __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-09-2013, 01:48 PM	#22
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	I hate needles. Why do nurses have to wake you up all night long just to see if you are alive?? Oh,you are not going to stick anything up my butt. Forget it.End of subject __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Last edited by Big Sarge; 02-09-2013 at 01:53 PM.

02-09-2013, 01:53 PM	#23
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	.. because you're so damned cute? __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-09-2013, 02:23 PM	#25
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Hospitals are the place of no sleep. Also of horrible tests you never knew existed. Feel better so you can get home and get some sleep! __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-10-2013, 06:55 AM	#27
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	I know every thing I have done is pointless. My dream are just that I will never achieve them and have truly given up on any kind of success. Survival is my new goal if I can just survive not make anything great or meaningful not change the world not help just survive. I know I will never be happy I have accepted that. I am not depressed, just clear. I see how things arc in my life. Just survival is all that can be truly accomplished. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

02-10-2013, 12:10 PM	#29
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	When we were young and invincible. I know the thing you speak precise. Sarge, not to make light of what you are going through but you could re-frame your experience in a positive light. In many ways you are in an enviable position; you are a clean slate and free to re-invent yourself. Obviously, you have a more limited set of choices than you did when you were young and invincible, but you are now older and wiser and in a better position to see what didn't work in the past and make new choices based on that. The hardest part is letting go of what you want or wanted, letting go of the desire for something you can't have. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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