Old anti-inflammatory thread

06 Dec, 2012 - 1:48 pm

Hi Ange666,

Credit where it is due - Batch's thread: http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=132404640
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I am sure Batch would appreciate survey participants and their results.
Believe it or not, this sort of info ends up under the noses of CH experts and impacts directly on treatment approaches right here and now in Australia. Thanks to my ranting on Vitamin D, I am pretty sure both my GP and treating clinical Pharmacologist are doing Vitamin D levels upon presentation for headache conditions, so your contribution to Batch's survey is appreciated.
http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=fb8a2415-629f-4ebc-907c-c
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Batch is the go to person for this regimen, not me.
I have however, attempted to source local Australian supplements and replicate the regimen and tweak it, until it works for me.

FIRST - REQUEST A VITAMIN D TEST FROM YOUR GP.
You will need this as a "control" baseline indicator of where your Vit D levels are currently sitting. You can start without this figure, rather than delay Vit D3.

I have a sort of hunter-gatherer and trial and error approach to implementing this regimen in Australia. I can't make fresh Lemonade from scratch etc etc. So I put together what works.

So I instead use:
Ostelin 1000iU Vitamin D capsules:
DOSAGE: 10,000iU PER DAY.
4-5000iU (4-5 caps) in the morning + 4-5000iU in the evening.
WITH FOOD.



Jees, big enough picture Roger?
Do we have to resize? To quote Jimeoin "That's bloody shuuuge".

(I have found that not all Vitamin D supplements are created equal.
Solubility and uptake are an issue. After trial and error and much research, I found Ostelin to be one of the more expensive but most effective ones available, sometimes you get what you pay for... Usually, I can pick up 250 X Capsules from a warehouse/discount chemist chain for about $30 on special.
Other chemists charge up to $50. If you are planning on trying this in CH, best to scale up and buy the 250 capsules, you will get through them quickly and smaller sizes are even more expensive. Buy in bulk!)

Doctors regularly use Vitamin D "Megadoses" of 250,000iU or more to quickly get your Vit D level back to where it should be. This may be great for patients who are forgetful of daily tablets, but could be a problem in CH. As soon as you have had your "Megadose", your levels are going to again decline, so daily dosing of Vit D, with a meal, is probably a more consistent approach for CH, if any efficacy is to be found.

I had success with Ostelin alone, but then added Centrum.
Centrum is a CSIRO researched multivitamin that should take care of basic Magnesium needs. http://www.centrum.com/centrum-adults-under-50#tablets

More recently, I added Salvital daily.
"In 1922 Bickford's "Sal Vital", an effervescent "health salt" powder which "contains all the elements that tend to cool and purify the blood, and makes as well, a refreshing and cooling beverage", first went on sale."
It contains some goodies that may help alter arterial pH in your favour, if my research is correct. I am still researching the mechanics of it..

The short version of the daily lot I take:
10,000iU of Ostelin (with food, AM and PM doses of 5000iU)
1 X Centrum Multivitamin (with food, same time as morning vit D dose)
1 X desert spoon of salvital dissolved in 300ml water.

Hope this helps.

It pulled the handbrake on over 30 years of DRCCH for me!
Still having shadows and the odd attack, but severity must have reduced by at least 70%.

Cheers, Ben.This post was edited on 06/12/2012 at 1:55 pm