Testimonials
Here you can read a collection of testimonials of patients who have used psychedelics to treat their cluster headaches. If you are one such patient, we'd love to feature your testimonial here! Simply get in touch.
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"The [psilocybin] sessions clarified a lot of my problems, and I was able to realize their roots. I was able to see and learn how to control my attacks. The session was very impressive and enriched me. My attacks after the session disappeared for 1 year."
"I spent 15 years trying everything available in the form of pharmaceuticals, and I had surgical operations done. But my cluster headaches got steadily worse and eventually I turned chronic. […] My daily 6-8 severe cluster attacks had been happening for 500+ days straight. My second dose of mushrooms made my attacks stop completely."
"One inhalation [of DMT] will end the attack for most people. Everybody is reporting the exact same thing. […] It could end that attack in less than a minute. […] You can take one inhalation, you can wait 30 seconds, and if that cluster is not gone completely, then you know it's time to take another inhalation. You don't have to wait 2h into a psilocybin trip."
"Zero anxiety. Zero planning for treatment dosages. Prior to 5-MeO-DALT treatment my anxiety levels were very high. I've been able to take the 5-MeO-DALT treatment (without having to set aside hours while involved in a hallucinogenic state), participate in life AND be completely pain free."
"I was very happy during the [psilocybin] sessions and I laughed a lot. We did 4 sessions within 1 month and my attacks went down from 3 attacks daily to [7] very mild attacks per week. After the second session I already noticed a significant improvement in my headaches."
"When my Dad started begging me for help with anything or he was going to shoot himself, I immediately got on this site and found mushrooms. […] He has not had one headache since. […] It IS a LIFESAVER for him, microdosing. Months and months of begging and crying from a tough 79-year-old farmer. He is fine now."
"I had such extreme traumatic stress disorder that in itself was disabling, and after using psychedelics as my primary treatment mechanism I don't deal with that anymore. At this stage in my life I have my life back with all those burdens that I lived with before now gone."
"The experience with psilocybin was something completely new. I was very emotional. The psilocybin helped me a lot with my cluster attacks. At first they reduced a lot, from 7 heavy attacks to 3 mild attacks daily, and after a little while they completely disappeared for a whole year. I am very happy with the result of the treatment."
"DMT, the smallest microdose of maybe 5mg with a vape pen stops the worst pain known, in literally 10–20 seconds. Acid and mushrooms as well, but they take time to come up. Even the smallest sub-perceptual dose of DMT stops the pain."
"I already did 2 therapy cycles with psychedelic substances to treat my cluster headaches. I was cluster-free for 2 years and came back and got psilocybin. I always enjoy listening to music during my treatment. In total I did 4 sessions [with psilocybin] and am cluster-free since then, now 1 year since my last session."
"My decision to use 5-MeO-DALT while NOT in cycle was due to constant shadowing. Three weeks in, I am only experiencing random jolts and minimum shadowing. I will continue the process until I reach a status completely free of any CH activity."
"I use the word game changer because a lot of times our attacks will come at night after we go to sleep. Usually after an attack, half hour to 40 minutes later, I try to go back to sleep knowing full well that in another hour or so I'm going to get another attack. But having a DMT vape pen right next to my bedside allowed me to hit that pen and within a minute or two I'm closing my eyes and going back to sleep."
"I am a chronic cluster headache patient and am using psilocybin. I haven't eliminated my attacks completely; however, my attacks went from daily, averaging 1-4 per day, to 1-4 per month currently. So it's been a slower road for me, but the results are nothing short of a miracle considering where I was just 6 months ago, not even thinking where I was a year ago!"
"Best part about [5-MeO-DALT] is it works, no tripping, minor side effects (cold fingers and toes). Inexpensive and easy to administer."
"I started with clusters at age 20. Absolutely disabling until I tried LSD when I was about 44. 2 tiny doses 6 months apart. I have been headache-free and able to maintain on meds since then. I had to go the illegal route, but I swear by it. It was a miracle."
"I take psilocybin relatively regularly as a preventive measure, especially if I feel like I'm on the way to a relapse but experience the "side effects", i.e. the psychedelic state is too stressful at times, so it depends a little on my mental state."
"I only did 1 [psilocybin] session. Before the session I had 2 attacks per day. Right now, I am cluster-free since 11 months. I am very happy with my decision to do this."
"5-MeO-DALT is life changing. Nothing has given me the peace of mind and comfort DALT has, ever."
"I had 16 attacks per day. After 3 [psilocybin] sessions my attacks got a lot milder and now I only have maximum 6 attacks daily."
"I'm a French user, among others, 5-MeO-DALT since August 2014 with excellent results. […] I find that the DALT works as well as psilocybin, but much less well and as fast as LSD. I could not keep taking LSD as often, it had become too restrictive, then the DALT is my savior!"
"I've been doing this for 4 years now. I used to get cycles in the spring and fall. Now the only time I get a cycle is when I can't find mushrooms. I usually take them a month or two before a cycle is supposed to start. They have truly changed my life. Finally a cage that can contain the beast! Freedom!"
"If I'm starting to experience a CH and I vaporize as little as 3mgs [of DMT, sub psychoactive] I feel the pain subside almost completely within 3 to 5 seconds, and it doesn't come back for a few days."
"I had already tried all the medications, all the therapies, all the doctors, acupuncture, cables in my head. […] And nothing worked. Researching on the internet, I learned about psilocybin. In September 2017 it cured me, and since then... I am no longer afraid of going to sleep."
"If I start to go into a relapse, I take psilocybin about once a week. Every three months or so if I have no problems."
"I had to use mushrooms every two weeks and was still getting shadows. After one dose of 5-MeO-DALT I was shadow free for a month. After second dose no shadowing yet. Going on three months."
"This chemical treatment [5-MeO-DALT] is the answer I have been looking for for 5 years when no doctor could tell me what the answer was."
"I've gone years without getting hold of LSD or mushrooms and those periods in life have been heavy or heavier than usual."
"One of the most incredible experiences of my life was when I first aborted a cluster headache with DMT. That feeling of going from a place of excruciating pain… and feeling the pain fizzle away and die in a matter of seconds."
"I went to several doctors and they gave me several medicines. It continued like this for 25 years. […] Then I found a Facebook group where people told me that there are mushrooms that work. […] Now four years later I use mushrooms when I feel it coming, and I don't remember when I last had a cluster attack. I would not be here if I would not have found mushrooms."
"The mushrooms did exactly what I was told they would do. The only 'side effect' is realising I should have done this a long time ago. This is the first time in five years I leave my dwelling without an oxygen tank – the fear is gone, the trauma is under control."
"I was toward the end of my headache cycle when I took my first dose [of 5-MeO-DALT]. It did give me relief. I took 5 more doses every 5 days, and 1 more after 7 days for a total of 7. It has been 33 days since my last dose. All pain free!"
"My attacks are down to ONE EVERY EVENING. Down significantly in frequency and down dramatically in intensity. I believe this treatment [5-MeO-DALT] needs to be shared with every sufferer."
"I am the mother of a 10-year-old boy who has had cluster headaches since he was around 3 years old. […] Due to his age there aren't very many pharmaceutical options for him to try. […] So last month we started microdosing magic mushrooms… and so far no cluster headache!! We are over the moon about this!!! This is the first time he has had a break in about 5 years!"
"The [psilocybin] sessions are always very intense and emotional. I already did multiple sessions and it helps me well with my cluster headaches. Since my last session 6 months ago I am cluster-free."
"People don't talk about this enough. I busted last summer after my worst cycle ever, and 15 years of suffering, and I haven't even had a twinge since."
"I've been battling the beast for many years, twice a day, with no relief. But on New Year's Eve 2019/2020 a friend gave me a couple of magic mushrooms and bingo! No more headaches! As of now it seems like I got my life back without the cluster headaches occurring."
"If you really want your life back, look into psychedelics. Mushrooms, LSD and DMT. With mushrooms and LSD, if taken in the correct regimen, you can bust a cycle. DMT will abort an attack in 5 seconds and back to sleep."
"When a new cycle started in 2008, I stuck with traditional medicine and increased the dosages, but I continued to scream nightly, feeling as though I was in a knife fight. […] In 2014, I heard about 5-MeO-DALT and bought some online. […] That was it. Not another cluster headache. This month I will celebrate 6 years of being pain-free."
"I am a chronic sufferer. Mushrooms have made my life liveable again. I microdose as an abortive."
"Psilocybin mushrooms have been the only thing that has ever worked."
"I’ve gotten complete prevention of cluster headaches with 25 micrograms of LSD lasting for a couple weeks, and then I just need to take that amount again, and do so every few weeks until the end of the cycle and I don’t experience any cluster headaches."
"[5-MeO-DALT] is by far the best treatment I've ever used in 20 years of being episodic. Currently I'm out of a cycle but occasionally I will get a shadow, when I do I take 15mg and I'm good, no shadows whatsoever. This last cycle was the absolute worst I've ever experienced and was truly contemplating suicide. Thanks to this incredible 5-MeO-DALT my life has changed."
"This has been the most effective treatment I have used. Minimal side effects and a very mild drug. […] I have tried most preventatives minus lithium with none of them working. 5-MeO-DALT has truly been a life-saver."
"I had 12 attacks per day and I was suffering from it. I did 3 sessions [of psilocybin and ketamine] in total. My attacks completely stopped for one and a half years now."