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Cluster headache

The preventive medication is discontinuied when the cluster series has finished. If a patient usually experiences a 4 week cycle of clusters, and the current series has lasted 5 weeks with no headache for 1 week, preventive medication may be withdrawn. I wait for the clusters to be gone for 1 or 2 weeks prior to stopping medication. Patients are instructed to quickly reinstitute the preventive medication if the clusters reappear. A cluster series may drag on for extra weeks or months, well...

Cluster headache treatment

Cluster headache

Treatment does not cure cluster headaches. The goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms. The headaches may go away on their own, or you may need treatment to prevent them. Smoking, alcohol use, specific foods, and other factors that seem to trigger cluster headaches should be avoided. Most of the sufferers are heavy smoker. To prevent headache, you must stop smoking. You should also abstain from drinking alcohol. Before you can finish your first drink, you already get cluster headache. When you...

Cluster headache diagnosis

Cluster headache

Cluster is a stereotypic episodic headache disorder marked by frequent attacks of short-lasting, severe, unilateral head pain with associated autonomic symptoms. A cluster headache is defined as an individual attack of head pain, while a cluster period or cycle is the time that a patient is having daily cluster headaches. Episodic cluster headache (the most common form) is defined by a cluster period lasting seven days to one year separated by a pain-free period lasting one month or longer....

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Cluster headache triggers

Every cluster headache sufferer will tell you that there are things that trigger a cluster headache attack in his or her active period. Those cluster headache triggers aren’t the same for everyone, but we can give you the more common triggers so you could learn to identify the things that start an attack with you. Seasonal Variation The most common trigger for cluster headaches is the...

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Cluster headache risk factors

While the specific risk factors for developing cluster headache are presently unknown, there are some common traits among many patients who have cluster headache, though a direct cause-and-effect has not been established. Lifestyle factors, including smoking There is a very high association between smoking and cluster headache. Many physicians feel that you almost have to be a cigarette...

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Cluster headache symptoms

The pain of a cluster headache commences quickly, without warning, and reaches a crescendo within 2 to 15 minutes. It is often excruciating in intensity, and is deep, nonfluctuating, and explosive in quality; only occasionally is it pulsatile. In addition, 10 to 20 percent of patients report superimposed paroxysms of stabbing, icepick-like pains in the periorbital region that last...

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Cluster headache facts

Cluster headaches consist of attacks of severe one-sided pain in the head. It is sometimes called migrainous neuralgia. Each attack develops suddenly, usually without any warning. Typically, you feel the pain mainly in or around one eye or temple. The word cluster is used because these headaches typically come in groups or bunches. A person may have several headaches a day for weeks or months,...

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