LSD cured my headache

damn cluster headaches are a trip in themselves

hell yea?

I have been having bad headaches lately.

Hurry up scientists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm. Harvard again eh? Wasn't Tim Leary (The Godfather of LSD) a harvard guy?

Go Ivy League!

i think whoever wrote this article was on lsd... get real people

I'm wondering if the LSD just tricks your brain with so much input and random thoughts that you forget about the headache? Morphine has got to be safer, but addictive. I cant go to the store for more orange juice tripping my dick off.

I've never heard of cluster headaches.. It's amazing how a notorious drug like LSD could have an unexpected effect.

the real cure is seratonin

We're talking about chronic headaches for which there has been no previous long term relief!

lsd ALWAYS cures my headache!!!! ;-)

I've always wanted an excuse to take hallucegenics.....
Saturday, here we come!?

HEADACHE ALL GONE.....Thanks for the response.

Some great images are getting uploaded for this post :)

I have a friend who swears that shrooms cleared his head for months when he tried them - made everything feel oddly clearer and brighter, even after the hallucinogenic effects had worn off...

Thanks everyone for putting some wheels under this
news piece.

I wonder if it cured the headache, or he was tripping too hard to notice it anymore?

yo when u think about it, it deos kind of make sense. im going to try it.

I grew up with migraines that left me disabled daily. Once I ate acid and unraveled my thoughts I was rid of cluster head aches for good pretty much. Mushrooms as well have the same medical properties.

LSD for life!!!!

almost every time i have done acid it made my head fell weird but it might have just been the acid

ummm I don't know how I feel about this. I have terrible head aches but I don't think ill be poppin LSD to cure it. lol

LSD is the active chemical, its already isolated, lysergic acid diethylamide, and theres no making it non-hallucinogenic, and you go chopping molecules you're gonna make something completely different, could be toxic. and as for the downtime involved with an acid trip, if a headache is bad enough to drive you to suicide, im sure an employer would prefer to send his worker home to slap some blotters and trip rather than force him to work until he slit his wrists with a broken coffee cup.

Theres an episode of House in which Hugh Lorrie drops some acid to shift a headache.

Okay, first off I don't think that acid gets rid of headaches. If anything, the hallucinogenic properties make you forget your headache while you stare at a wood-grain door for about 6 straight hours. But, I don't think it gets rid of headaches altogether.

What's next? An article (or "study") is going to be posted stating that speedballing cures the common cold?????

Hendrix used LSD. Hendrix Is God. LSD is good.
Nuff said.

This is like something Vivian Stanshall would be singing about.

LSD has not always been thought of as a taboo drug. It was discovered by the chemist Albert Hoffman who called it "medicine for the soul". Although dangerous in the wrong hands, it was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis.

A great drug for many things, like stairwells they are great to go up and down on but if you not supposed to use them and take the elevator it's not worth taking the risk of falling down the stairs.

It totally works, man, I swear.

i might suffer from this...and im at the average age to start developing this...scary!

It gets rid of headaches and gives you the idea of a double helix being the structure for DNA... what can't LSD do?

Mushrooms helped me love and understand myself
Alcohol makes me cynical and slutty
LSD is alright until the purple people start talking
The problem with the purple people is they make sense
And then you realize you're not hallucinating

LSD, getting rid of headaches the fun way since the 1960s

LSD, in the slightly modified form known as ergotomine tartrate, has been used for many years for the relief of cluster headache pain. I had cluster headaches since I was 11 years old, but was not "diagnosed" until 1966. At that time I was given (prescribed) a whole host of them at once, along with a bunch of other stuff. I called it my "Alphabet Cocktail." Actifed, Bellergal, Caffergot, Darvon, Ergomar, Fiorinol, Sansert, and Zactrin. Of these, Bellergal, Caffergot, Ergomar, and Sansert were all LSD-based drugs. I finally dropped them all except Darvon and took Darvon 65mg for over twenty years, sometimes up to 12 per day depending on the severity and duration of the headache. In the meantime, I got divorced (no connection) and remarried, moved to the country, and lost my cluster headaches along the way.
Most recent studies indicate stress (the old standby diagnosis - when a doctor can't come up with anything better) DOES indeed play a part in cluster headaches. All I know is, I no longer have them, haven't since I retired. I have my own business, and work when and if I want. So, for me, no more LSD, ergotomine tartrate or "magic mushrooms" (the actual source for ergotomine), just a truly "no stress" life. And, NO HEADACHES!!!
But, to stay legal, I would still get the doc to prescribe one of the ergot-based drugs. Remember, even though you may not agree, you can still go to jail for possession of LSD. And they don't serve it in jail. And they don't care if you get a headache, either!

you know there might be some truth to what he says and it there is nothing wrong with trying...my mother and i get headaches on a regular basis and nothing over the counter or prescription works for us....maybe we should try this...i will keep you informed

i think i have a headache as well

I don't think that you can focus on a headache while peaking... and if you get "dirty" cid you're head will be melted afterwards.

Oh, man, I now have a severe headache. I can haz LSD, now?

He must have watched that House episode where Dr. House uses LSD to stop a migraine. It was also on one of the latest episodes of Weeds :P

Interesting...now I know what to do if I ever get a splitting headache......

What is more lame is that it seems less than one third of the commentators actually read the article.
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"Behind the apparent idiocy of the theory lay some solid, if not fully understood, science. Psilocybin and LSD are chemicals called tryptamines, like neurotransmitters such as serotonin; they bind to nerves in the same way. Indeed, arguably the most effective migraine drug, sumatriptan (Imitrex, or Imigran), which can also abort CH attacks, is chemically very similar to DMT, a hallucinogen found in plants native to South America. Similarly, the anti-migraine drug methysergide is based on the LSD molecule, but with virtually no hallucinogenic properties, though it can cause severe fibrosis."

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Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), also known as N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is a naturally occurring tryptamine and potent psychedelic drug, found not only in many plants, but also in trace amounts in the human body where its natural function is undetermined. Structurally, it is analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin and other psychedelic tryptamines such as 5-MeO-DMT and 4-HO-DMT. DMT is created in small amounts by the human body during normal metabolism by the enzyme tryptamine-N-methyltransferase.

-Interesting thought, why give out a drug that is only 'chemically similar' to DMT? Why not instead actually medicate with the naturally occurring substance?

Hey! Dont be so closed-minded! Advil/Tylenol/whatever else you take doesnt work for EVERYONE!!! maybe it did work. Just because someone says Marijuana and LSD or whatever else are BAD does not mean they don't have possible therapeutic effects. LSD might not cure MY headaches, but that doesnt mean it didnt cure his. Thats like saying all cancer drugs cure all cancer; not true. Some drugs have absolutely no effect on some people while other drugs have drastic effects on other people.

LSD is not the drug to take for these headaches.

LSD has too many ill side effects, and lasts far too long.

Magic Mushrooms are what you want.
Keep it all natural.
The buzz only lasts 3-5 hours.

LSD is just too harsh for headache treatment.
The Flesh Of The Gods is what he really needs.

"LSD cured my headache!" just another excuse to do drugs. how lame.

This is news how? Because it doesn't coincide with the propaganda of the drug war? Nice to see people are actually seeing through the lies we're told about drug usage and "discovering" the effects of LSD in ways other than recreational use.

I would have expected the author to come out of a daylong acid-trip with some greater metaphysical realizations than "cured my headache".

hmmm that's crazy Acid or Advil what would you chose

Once again, though I'm glad this news is starting to reach the mainstream, it's important to realize that this discovery isn't "new" at all, but was actually researched and developed in the late 1950s and early '60s. It's a testament to the power of the government to mislead and convince us that this sort of thing is only for druggies and crazy people rather than an amazing psychiatric and medical and religious tool. "What luck for rulers that men do not think."

Hopefully someone will attempt to *isolate* the chemical in LSD that is affecting the cluster headaches, and create a medication from it that is NON-hallucinogenic . I mean, if you get a headache at work, you can't exactly excuse yourself from that sales meeting, drop a tab, and go stand by the water cooler tripping balls for the rest of the day.

LSD could be an effective way to fool your brain into thinking its headache is non existent or it could just amplify it to the next degree. LSD is too unmpredictable to serve any sort of medical purpose. Leave the Dr bussiness to Leary and kesey

very deep that is.
i tell u if macdrain wins

i think many will be needing some fry time.

peace-in

"LSD cured my headache" sounds like a Frank Zappa record.

headache party anyone!?

LSD also drove people crazy.

Evidence exists that abnormal serotonin regulation can be found in people who suffer from cluster headaches. We also know that LSD affects serotonergic neurons. Does LSD effect serotonin regulation, which in turn normalizes levels and reduces the effects of cluster headaches? The results of a study would be interesting.

I think I just found a new thesis =)

Of course...yet another example of the good misunderstood hallucinogenics can do.

mmm the beautiful world. how pretty it is until all the filth washes on you. if only we could get it fda approved.

LSD, another drug that cures pain, how are we to know of what effect/cures our body and what prevents it, if we don't try...

LSD? Hmmm...Thats interesting way to get rid of a headache. I normally use asprin.

This guy was also a "man driven to the brink of suicide by the debilitating effects of cluster headaches." Says a little about his mental stability.

Cluster headaches anyone?