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I think I had my first case of Cluster Headache...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache

Woke up 6am this morning, with the most excruciating headache/pain I've ever experienced. The symptoms fit exactly with cluster headaches.

Fuck.




At least I don't have aids.

Oh yeah, I used to have these as a teenager. They always happened at night for me - it's a terrible feeling waking up to a pain so immense you think your head is going to explode.

Haven't had any in years, though *knocks wood*

Apparently they usually start occurring at age 20-30 and stops at age 65. How often you get them varies a lot, with having none in years/decades to having them each days.

I really hope I'm lucky and get the "once every 10 years" card.

Talked to my mom and she has had a couple of them.

Re: I think I had my first case of Cluster Headache...

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Originally posted by Cloudburst At least I don't have aids.

"The degree of pain involved in cluster headaches is markedly greater than in other headache conditions, including migraine. It has been described by female patients as being more severe than childbirth. The pain is lancinating or boring in quality, and is located behind the eye or in the temple, sometimes radiating to the neck or shoulder. An analogy frequently used to describe the pain is that it is like a red-hot poker inserted into the eye. The condition was originally named Hortons Neuralgia after Dr. B.T Horton who postulated the first theory as to their pathologenesis. His original paper describes the severity of the headaches as being able to take normal men and force them to suicide. Indeed, cluster headaches are also known by the nickname "suicide headaches"."



"Latitude plays a role in the occurrence of cluster headaches, which are more common as one moves away from the equator towards the poles."

Bad luck mate, maybe you should move to the tropics.

Come to think of it, I think I had migraine as the symptoms fit better. I could sometimes feel several hours beforehand that I was going to have an attack, yet there was nothing I could do about it.

Most of the pain was located behind my right eye, it felt like it was pushing it out of it socket. I also had other "spheres" of pain behind the right ear (behind as straight in seen from the side) and at the back-top of my head.

When my future kids is about to be born I'll just tell the mommy to shut her pie hole. I've been there and beyond.

Headaches are fucking evil I've had a slight headache, which sometimes gets worse, for years and it's easier nowdays.


I'm not sure if it's the same thing as this Cluster headache, even after reading some of it, but the "behind my right eye" thing feels so similar to some of the worst headache attacks I've had. It hurts pretty fucking much!

Thank goodness it doesn't last for too long or you would probably go crazy I've only had a couple of those ones though.

So you dont know me, so what, but i just went through all this shit, ask your doctor to prescribe you MIGRAINAL, its medication that u inhale up ur nose and within 15 minutes u should feel a huge amount of relief!!
good luck

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Originally posted by K.BeaR So you dont know me, so what, but i just went through all this shit, ask your doctor to prescribe you MIGRAINAL, its medication that u inhale up ur nose and within 15 minutes u should feel a huge amount of relief!! good luck

umm...cluster headaches are much different, and treatment is limited and very specific to the individual.

you mean a migraine?

i have headaches/migraines/cluster on a regular basis, the migrainal helps almost all, it just helps regulate the blood flow.

take 4 advil migraine gelcaps 800 mg at once that sometimes wud help as well, however its very important not to take painrelievers often because the possibilty of rebound headaches r huge. any food bought in a drive thru is a huge NO NO to people with ne headaches!

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Originally posted by K.BeaR i have headaches/migraines/cluster on a regular basis, the migrainal helps almost all, it just helps regulate the blood flow. take 4 advil migraine gelcaps 800 mg at once that sometimes wud help as well, however its very important not to take painrelievers often because the possibilty of rebound headaches r huge. any food bought in a drive thru is a huge NO NO to people with ne headaches!

I have a friend that suffers from really bad cluster headaches, so if this was prescribed to u for treatment of the cluster and not a migraine, I'll let him know. I get migraines probably once a week, but taking one advil works for me luckily.

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Originally posted by K.BeaR So you dont know me, so what, but i just went through all this shit, ask your doctor to prescribe you MIGRAINAL, its medication that u inhale up ur nose and within 15 minutes u should feel a huge amount of relief!! good luck

yeah when I get migraines I take about 8mg of hydromorphone up the nose. The scary thing is that doesn't even take away the headache, just makes it more managable while I wait for the imitrex to kick in

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY I have a friend that suffers from really bad cluster headaches, so if this was prescribed to u for treatment of the cluster and not a migraine, I'll let him know. I get migraines probably once a week, but taking one advil works for me luckily.

One advil does not/will not cure migraines. That would be called a regular headache.

I was in the hospital this week with a migraine, and they had to hook me up to an IV for 8 hours with a shit tonne of painkillers. Even after all that, I came home and still felt like shit.

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY umm...cluster headaches are much different, and treatment is limited and very specific to the individual.

lol your sig is hilarious!

It's probably MS.

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Originally posted by Theresa One advil does not/will not cure migraines. That would be called a regular headache. I was in the hospital this week with a migraine, and they had to hook me up to an IV for 8 hours with a shit tonne of painkillers. Even after all that, I came home and still felt like shit.

sorry, I get migraines, and one advil does work for me, as long as I take it early on. Everyone is different when it comes to treatments, and Advil works wonders for me where Aspirin and Tylenol usually does nothing, but is useful to others. I used to get them bad where I would throw get nautious and vomit all over someone who was within range but luckily I have grown out of that.

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY sorry, I get migraines, and one advil does work for me, as long as I take it early on. Everyone is different when it comes to treatments, and Advil works wonders for me where Aspirin and Tylenol usually does nothing, but is useful to others. I used to get them bad where I would throw get nautious and vomit all over someone who was within range but luckily I have grown out of that.

I find it incredibly difficult to believe that one advil could do anything for a real migraine.

However, if it's true... you are one lucky bastard.

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Originally posted by Theresa I find it incredibly difficult to believe that one advil could do anything for a real migraine.

I don't. Even something as simple as laying down can help a migraine.

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Originally posted by jennypie I don't.

And you're a nurse

Really? One advil?!?! That blows me away. One advil doesn't do shit all for my migraines, and anyone I know who has had a migraine has agreed that advil/tylenol does jack.

Yes, because your migraines are just like everyone else's.

LoL.

Many years ago I used to have frequent and powerful migraines. They'd usually disable me for the rest of the day and I had to take some pretty hardcore drugs. Then it went away after a year or so.

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Originally posted by jennypie Yes, because your migraines are just like everyone else's. LoL.

Of course they are... yeesh Jenny, don't you know how these things work?

Actually, yes I do. Do you? I mean, without Googling it.

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