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Kitty
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Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« on: Jan 28th, 2008, 10:10pm » |
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Since January started, I am being awakened from my sleep by a horrific migraine pain on the right side of my head. If I stay lying down, it doesn't get any better. I usually have to elevate my head as well as put ice on the right side of my head. Some nights the pain is worse than other nights, but I have pain nightly that wakes me from my sleep. I hate having to go to bed at night. Migraine meds like Relpax help. Excedrin Migraine doesn't work very well with the night headaches. This has been happening every night since the first week of January, consecutively. I went to the neurologist and had an MRI last Friday...still waiting for results. He says this is not a cluster headache, but others I talk to seem to think it might be. I was told to check out this site by a someone who has been a sufferer for many years. So......from what you have read so far, can anyone tell me if these are cluster headaches. Although I have suffered from migraines for years, I have not had a headache wake me up every night for almost 4 weeks in all of the years that I have been having migraines. Any advice or help would be truly appreciated! Thank you!
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #1 on: Jan 28th, 2008, 10:13pm » |
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on Jan 28th, 2008, 10:10pm, Kitty wrote:| Since January started, I am being awakened from my sleep by a horrific migraine pain on the right side of my head. If I stay lying down, it doesn't get any better. I usually have to elevate my head as well as put ice on the right side of my head. Some nights the pain is worse than other nights, but I have pain nightly that wakes me from my sleep. I hate having to go to bed at night. Migraine meds like Relpax help. Excedrin Migraine doesn't work very well with the night headaches. This has been happening every night since the first week of January, consecutively. I went to the neurologist and had an MRI last Friday...still waiting for results. He says this is not a cluster headache, but others I talk to seem to think it might be. I was told to check out this site by a someone who has been a sufferer for many years. So......from what you have read so far, can anyone tell me if these are cluster headaches. Although I have suffered from migraines for years, I have not had a headache wake me up every night for almost 4 weeks in all of the years that I have been having migraines. Any advice or help would be truly appreciated! Thank you! |
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ya can't lie down with a ch. Ya gets them happy feets.
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #2 on: Jan 28th, 2008, 10:23pm » |
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Take the "cluster quiz". Click the button for it on the left side of your screen, and let us know how you score.
Cluster isn't just different in intensity from a typical migraine--the symptoms are quite distinct. The quiz--while it is, of course, not a substitute for a definitive diagnosis, will give you some idea whether or not you're suffering from cluster headache. Then see your doctor again--and a neurologist specializing in the treatment of headache.
Hope you don't have them--but knowing is better than guessing.
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George
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #3 on: Jan 28th, 2008, 10:42pm » |
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I'm hopin ya don't
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #4 on: Jan 28th, 2008, 10:43pm » |
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Aw Potter, what a devil wit dem words you are. lol
What he's trying to say, is that the pain from a cluster headache is so darned intense and excruciating...that we cannot lie still. We need to pace, rock and yes...bang our head. no migrainer would dream of doing that.
Migraines, on the other hand present themselves totally different. The need for no noise, no light, a bed to lie down in, and a cold rag to the head is almost universal.
When your headache wakes you...does it ramp up in pain level? And after a while...go down in pain level like nothing happened? Or does it last and last for more than 3 hours say?
Are you experiencing a watery eye and runny nose on the side affected?
No one here is a doctor but we are experienced enough to help you through this if it is clusters.
Linda
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #5 on: Jan 29th, 2008, 1:06pm » |
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It sounds like it, but as they said, you can't continue to lie down. You will always start pacing the room or house. How long do they last? Usually an hour or so. Then they go down as quickly as they went up. Let's hope they aren't CH
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #6 on: Jan 29th, 2008, 10:15pm » |
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Sorry, George, but some of us have no "cluster quiz" on the left side of our screens. How else do I get to it?
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #8 on: Jan 30th, 2008, 12:28pm » |
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lets hope not,
but sure sounds like it, my nostril will block up on the same side as my headache, also they ramp down in 40-50 mins,
lets hope its sinus related and not cluster
try a red bull or strong coffee, when you get a hit, and if the pain starts going away you may have clusters
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #9 on: Jan 31st, 2008, 10:23am » |
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on Jan 29th, 2008, 10:15pm, Stoic wrote:| Sorry, George, but some of us have no "cluster quiz" on the left side of our screens. How else do I get to it? |
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I'm set up the same way, it make reading the boards easier. Start at www.clusterheadaches.com There is a lot of good info in the articles.
I had to backtrack to find out how I got my shortcut set up for just the boards. I right clicked {open in new window} on the board home icon from the web page frame and it opens up the frame full screen.
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Re: Is this a cluster headache! Help!
« Reply #10 on: Feb 2nd, 2008, 12:48pm » |
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well we're all different but otc pills i can take for a migraine will set a ch on fire. if you try melitonin or any kind of herb or vitamins give at least a weak to work and don't overdue anything. have you tried o2? i would definitely confirm that you have ch or our advice would be useless.
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