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(Message started by: don on Sep 3^rd, 2002, 9:11pm)

Title: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by don on Sep 3^rd, 2002, 9:11pm

Don't know which you have and neither does your dopey doc?

http://www.mhni.com/faqs_cluster.html

Dopey Doc need help with a diagnosis?

http://www.upstate.edu/neurology/haas/hpcldx.htm

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Ree on Sep 3^rd, 2002, 10:04pm

Great information... now to get everyone to admit the difference... I am curious to know how many Ch'ers get Migraine as well... and why is that true... ???

Good job Don... love Ree

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by ave on Sep 4^th, 2002, 6:46am

Ree, I used to get migraines, haven't had them since menopause, when clusters kicked in, although one day-long cluster attack might have been repeated clusters with a migraine thrown in. At that point I could not gtell any more.

And there are more of us who get the double bill...

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Drk^Angel on Sep 4^th, 2002, 4:13pm

Migraines and clusters... Hmmmmmmmm...

PFDAN.................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Slammy on Sep 4^th, 2002, 4:15pm

I have never experienced a migraine.....

Slammy 8)

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Charlie on Sep 4^th, 2002, 5:16pm

Same here Sammy.

I have no real idea what a migraine is like.

Not that I'm complaining

Charlie

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Ueli on Sep 4^th, 2002, 7:47pm

Excellent research Don :)

The MNHI article is one of the best I've read until now. It is short enough that every un-cooperating neuro should be forced to read it, if needed at guns point.

However, it does contain a dangerous simplification I don't like:

Quote:

Each attack of cluster headache is usually accompanied by same side eye watering and nasal drainage, eye lid drooping, pupillary change, and eye congestion/redness.

The IHS criteria require that only one of the features must be present (and they dropped the stuffy nose).

That reminds me of what happened to a good friend of mine: She had an attack in the neuro's office but the doc said that couldn't be CH, as she had no runny nose nor teary eye. >:(

PFNADs
Ueli

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by Samiam on Sep 6^th, 2002, 7:41am

I suffer from both....although I might only get migranes about 4 or 5 times a year....My migranes are vision....I lose my vision for about 45 minutes then it comes back with no pain or the other kind I get I've only had 2 times in my life and that was on the right side of my head (cluster's on my left) there was some pain but nothing like my cluster and it to me is a different kind of pain and it stayed only on my rt. it's funny when I felt that one coming on I just counted my blessings that it was on the left then I would have know what I was in for.....my cluster's......Sami

Title: Re: Cluster Vs. Migraine
Post by pjbgravely on Sep 6^th, 2002, 2:41pm

I have some kind of merging of the two, The worst of both worlds except I don't have vision problems.