Hello,
This topic is a little edgy, but I thought it was worth posting. My fiance suffers from migraines (but not cluster headaches), and when I was looking around for treatments today (shes on Maxalt or something I think, dissolves on her tongue) and came across the website www.clusterbuster[s?].com today and was wondering if any of you have information on the use of mushrooms for CH or migraine treatments? There are reports out that that taking 1/4-1/2 of a hallucinogenic dose relieves some of these people of their CH's or migraines for months or years at a time.
The fact that so many people are reporting such great success with psilocybin is hardly surprising. A great many of the migraine medications, as I'm sure you all know are triptans- based off of the tryptamines, of which psilocybin is one (4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine, or 4-ho-dmt)- and very closely related to serotonin. When I went to verify this, I even noticed that on Maxalts warning label they note that you should not take it if you are taking any of ther ergotamines- chemicals from which LSD is derived, also very similar to serotonin.
The claims that these people make are incredible, but quite possible. I urge all of you to write to your congressmen and senators and ask them to get a study going. Imagine something that you could take once- at a very low dose (I could understand not wanting to take a high dose!
)- and not having another migraine or cluster headache for months or years!!!
It also makes me wonder if anyone has tried Melatonin. It is also a tryptamine, but lacks any real psychoactive effects, and even its sleep inducing properties are questionable (though in finland it is a prescript
ion drug). I'm gonna get some for my fiance and have her try it and post back here about
her results.
Here are some links to sites with great information:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_medical1.shtml
http://www.clusterbusters.com/
http://www.maps.org
If anyone has tried it (or knows someone who has), I'd love to hear about
it. All I know is that when my fiance has a headache, I feel so powerless. Anything that would offer her the ability to become headache free for such a length of time (before redosing) would be worth it to me.
Yesterday a brazillian christian church, with a branch in the US, won a major battle at the Supreme Court and will soon begin importing their sacrament again-- ayahoasca, a tea made of two plants, one of them containing DMT, (remember, mushrooms have 4-ho-DMT in them). Maybe they'll have a bunch of headache sufferers joining them? I'm not a member of it (until I can go to brazil where your initiation must take place), but I do know the head of it.
Sorry this has gone on so long. I'm just so filled with hope for my fiance.
Hamilton
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