My Notes & Experience in Treating Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgia (Cluster Headaches) with Taurine

For me taking large quantities (from 2g up to ~15g / day) of Taurine has helped enough that i would even go so far as to say that my Chronic Cluster Headaches are now in remission. I've only had a few attacks in the last 2-3 years or so, when before it was too many to have any energy left for counting them.

I'm not entirely sure what form of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgia (TAC) i've had, but since two of the few dozen doctors i went to were in agreement about CH and distinctions between TACs seem arbitrarily determined based on symptoms determined by individual variations in brain anatomy and given that both patients and the experts all seem to contradict each other about both what is effective for each and what the diagnostic thresholds should be, i guess it doesn't really matter.

In my case CH would appear to have been caused by Chronic Inflamation spreading to the brain and resulting in swelling of the Hypothalamus, which seems to be the main trickering mechanism in TAC attacks. Since Taurine has the ability to bind to GABA receptors in the Hypothalamus, in large enough quantities it is believed to block any signals from getting through, thus somehow aborting an attack. Taurine also acts as an anti-oxidant thus simultaneously reducing inflamation.

As an Abortive:

To boost the speed and effectiveness of Taurine-based abortive treatment, i've been experimenting with various deployment methods and come up with the following approach:

1. Fill an air-tight ~0.5 liter plastic bottle with SPE/PEM filtered Hydrogen Water after running the hydrogen-water generator several times to maximize saturation. 

2. Add an excessive amount of Taurine to the bottle. The excess will form crystals at the bottom of the bottle. You can just reuse them later. 

3. Shake the mixture every few days while keeping it at room temperature, then store at a cold place like a fridge.

4. When drinking the contents during early stages of the attack, also take Green Tea extract and any of the following: Black Pepper, Chili, Garlic, Onion... pretty much anything known to increase the metabolic rate will work, this only makes it kick in sooner.

I also tried making aerosols based on steps 1-3 of the above formula to make it absorbable through the lungs for an even faster deployment, but after each use the ejection point ended up getting blocked by crystallized Taurine, making the approach too unreliable to even test properly. Perhaps there is a way to get around this using an anti-clogging agent of some kind.

As a Preventive:
There doesn't seem to be much difference in effectiveness between 2g and 15g per day, but you should keep it low as only 3grams or less has been confirmed to be safe. Although the only side-effects i've personally experienced from larger doses have been light-headedness, increase in stamina and reduced need for sleep. I recommend only increasing the dosage slightly to avoid inflamation in cases of: stress, fatigue, sickness or infection.

All that said there are certainly many other factors that may still be contributing to my success with Taurine, such as almost always wearing sunglasses outside and avoiding spending more than 20 minutes in sunlight to keep my Hypothalamus unstimulated, as well as consuming pretty much every anti-oxidant i can get my hands on.

Finally, if none of the above works for you, there is always Shrooms.