PMS and cluster headaches?
I get them too... like clockwork, 3 days before my cycle I get them and I am in bed for at least 3 days. If you have been diagnosed with Cluster Migraines, you need to stay away from certain foods, wine, aged cheese, salted meats even bananas. Keep hydrated and get lots of rest. One thing that did help is to have been put on Depo-Provera 104mg once every three months. This kept my hormones alot more regular. It is the drop in estrogen and increase in testosterone that causes Cluster Migraines. These are more common in males. Why? Testosterone, so keeping your hormones more in balance does help. If that fails, I see a Neurologist who prescribes me migraine medication. He has also put me on a vasodilator. It is a low dose blood pressure pill. Not because my blood pressure is high, but because this helps the blood vessels from constricting, which in turn causes migraines. This has helped ALOT!! Finding out if there is a trigger, for you and me it is our cycle. But just know there is hope!!
"CLUSTER HEADACHES" help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
I am 27 year old male on my wife's yahoo for about 7 yrs, 1-2months out every year i get pain on my right temple above my eye, its not just pain its a killer pain, it kills, it makes me go crazy, i get evil if anybody bothers me. i have been to doctors they assumed allergies, prescribed me allergy medicine, didn't work. I did my research and i self diagnosed my self with CLUSTER fckn HEADACHES. At first i thought it maybe a brain aneurysm, did my research and it cant be, because this pain comes for about 1-2 months of every year and im sure brain aneurysm is constant, not a come and go thing. This pain ruins me, it hurts to dam much, id rather be shot or stabbed then to feel this pain. Someone told me go to doctor ask for this med or that, so i did, but my dumb *** doctor doesn't prescribe me sh!t. It hurts, it hurts alot, i want a way out but cant, someone told me to massage my neck and back muscle so i did it helps but not much. if anyone knows or went through what im going through pls help!!!!!!!!!!
What are Cluster headaches?
Cluster headaches are extremely painful headaches. Some doctors think they are the greatest pain that people experience; certainly, women have reported that the pain of a cluster headache is greater than the pain that attends childbirth. Cluster headaches usually come in "clusters" that last six to eight weeks, during which time a sufferer will get somewhere between one and eight headaches a day. They are sometimes known as "alarm clock" headaches, because they come at predictable times. For example, a cluster headache sufferer who is in-cycle might predictably get a headache every day at 11:30 am, 4:30 pm, and 4:00 am. Some people have chronic cluster headaches, meaning that they are never out-of-cycle but rather they get these headaches every day of their lives. Cluster headaches occur on only one side of the head. The pain is usually strongest right behind the eye, although there may be further pain in the temple, neck, or jaw on the affected side as well. Most sufferers also have a dilated pupil in the eye on the side of the cluster headache, and their eye tears and their nose runs. All of these symptoms occur on the same side of the head only - for example, if the headache is located on the right side, the pain will be behind the right eye, only the right nostril will run, the right eye will dilate and be teary, the neck may be stiff on the right side only, etc. The headaches are fairly short in duration and never last more than 3 hours. We don't know what ultimately causes cluster headaches, but the pain is proximately caused by overfiring of the trigeminal nerve. We don't know why that happens. Breathing pure oxygen for about five minutes can abort a cluster headache for the vast majority of sufferers. There are also a number of medications that can help prevent or at least control them - but we don't generally know why these medications work, and they run the gamut from heart medication to anti-seizure drugs to anti-psychotics. Because we don't understand the mechanism behind cluster headaches, there are no drugs specifically designed to prevent them - all the drugs have some other primary purpose and were only later discovered to be helpful against clusters.
Does anyone have cluster headaches?
True cluster headaches are usually treated in three ways: 1. Abortive treatments. While you are HAVING a cluster headache, many people find it will go away if they breathe pure oxygen. You should not have much problem getting a home-oxygen prescription if you have been able to have a doctor diagnose the headaches, but otherwise in some places (for example, in the United States) it's extremely difficult (maybe illegal?) to get. Some people find that traditional migraine medications injected directly can help, too; if the oxygen doesn't help, you can always try injection Maxalt or Imitrex. Some research has suggested that if you put capsaisin up your nose, this can also help the pain. 2. Preventative treatments. These are drugs that you take daily that will keep you from getting the headaches. Different drugs work for different people, but the most common of these drugs are indomethacin, verapamil, and topamax. Again, you need a prescription for any of these. Note that there are no drugs actually designed for cluster headaches - these are all drugs for other things that have turned out to help cluster sufferers. 3. Lifestyle treatments. These can help prevent cluster headaches without drugs, or can help them to hurt less while you have them. The chief treatment here is movement and exercise. In addition, some people find that standing in a hot shower can help somewhat while they have the headache. Note, though, that a lot of people self-diagnose a "bad headache" as a cluster headache, when really it isn't. The cluster headache is a very unique and terrible thing to have; it is believed by many doctors that the cluster headache is the most painful thing that humans feel. All those suggestions above are for true cluster headache sufferers - if what you have is a migraine or tension headache or something, then oxygen won't help, verapamil won't help, etc. But if you do have clusters, then I hope that is at least somewhat helpful! Good luck.
Cluster headaches are killing me, I need HELP!!!! In to to to much pain?
my cluster headaches are killing me, the pain is excruciating. Someone help or show me a way to prevent them. These doctors don't seem to care, they think the pain is nothing, I got no faith in doctors no more, so hell with them. Some nice person is teaching me ways on eliminating pain through muscle exercises and it helps a lot, but when i do stop the massaging on my neck and shoulder the pain eventually comes back, im great-full that something helps and some nice person cared to help, its just bothering that a doctor cant do what a normal person helped me deal with, thank-you to him. My question is this what should i do to eliminate this pain, and how in the first place do i get these every year for about 1month for the past 6yrs. Why are these doctors so retarded in understanding my pain
Migraine & Cluster Headache?
A cluster headache is one of the most painful types of headache. This uncommon condition often produces severe pain that occurs within minutes. Cluster headaches are characterized by a sharp, penetrating, or burning pain affecting one side of the head. The pain often appears suddenly with little warning and often occurs in and around one eye or in the temple. The excruciating pain related to a cluster headache is often compared to the sensation of a hot poker being stuck in the eye. Others compare it to the feeling of the eye being pushed out of its socket. The condition may also produce a number of other symptoms including tearing of the eyes and nasal congestion. According to the National Headache Foundation, cluster headaches affect less than 1 percent of people in the United States. About 85 percent of people affected by the condition are men, according to the American Council for Headache Education. Cluster headaches differ from other types of headache because they occur in cyclical patterns (clusters). This type of headache occurs repeatedly every day at the same time, usually several times a day. One to four headaches a day is average. These frequent attacks may continue in a series of weeks or months (cluster periods), with each individual attack lasting an average of 45 to 90 minutes. Typically cluster periods last from two to 12 weeks. However, they can continue for more than a year. The temporary relief between attacks in a cluster period may last for a number of hours or continue for as long as a day. Take a look at some additional information at the link below. I think you'll find it helpful! http://pain.health.ivillage.com/headachemigraine/clusterheadache.cfm