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.

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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*

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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.

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

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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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!