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(Message started by: SommelierCH on Nov 29^th, 2002, 5:33pm)

Title: Give THIS handout to your Employer, Family, Friend
Post by SommelierCH on Nov 29^th, 2002, 5:33pm

I found out through the years, that the only thing that grabs people’s attention and makes them read about clusters is sensationalism. You know, what the news programs do to attract and keep viewers. The common denominator for all of this is pain. I put together this “handout” quoting several sources describing the indescribable pain that cluster headache sufferers go through. I gave this to the owners of my restaurant, the managers and posted it on the employee bulletin board. I hand wrote “Just in case you were wondering why I have been weirder than usual” in the bottom corner. This has made all the difference in the world, in the way everyone has treated me this cycle (my third at this job). Print this out and keep some copies with you. Give it to anyone who is in your circle and has an effect on your life. We have enough pain to deal with and this (I guarantee you) will get them off your back.

PFDAN’s
David J.
Damn, it's taking forever to format this. How about an "undue" button on the little text box?????

Exploding Eye/Suicide: CLUSTER HEADACHES

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"The pain is so severe that some have described it as feeling "like the eye is going to explode."

They've caused their victims to pace the floor in agony, unable to lie down; literally bang their heads against a wall; even, on rare occasions, to commit suicide to escape the pain. They're cluster headaches, and those who suffer from them are often called ClusterHeads.

Symptoms of Cluster Headaches:

· excruciating pain, usually on one side of the head, often around the eye, often described as "piercing" or "stabbing"
· excessive tearing, swelling and redness of the eye on the affected side
· shrinking of the pupil (miosis) on the affected side
· inability to lie down or remain still
· drooping of the eye eyelid on the affected side
· sweaty forehead or face
· runny or stuffy nose on the affected side
· anxiety, depression, dejection, irritability

Cluster attacks produce pain nearly unimaginable in its intensity. Because it usually centers around the eye, the eye often feels a great deal of pressure, and some sufferers have described the pain as feeling "like the eye is going to explode" or "like someone plunged a hot fireplace poker into the eye”.

“Cluster headache (CH) is an excruciating syndrome and is probably ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL CONDITIONS KNOWN TO MANKIND, with one female patient describing each attack as being worse than childbirth. The pain paroxysms are so severe that many patients are driven to desperate measures, including suicide.”
Prof Goadsby, clinical neurologist consultant and Dr Matharu, research registrar at the Headache Group, Institute of Neurology, London

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1 Silberstein, Stephen D., Lipton, Richard B., Dalessio, Donald J.; Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain, Seventh Edition, 2001. Chapter 12, Dodick, David W., Campbell, J. Keith "Cluster Headache: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment," 283-321.

2 Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain 41 (3), 330-342.
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1526-4610.2001.111006330.x

Title: Re: Give THIS handout to your Employer, Family, Fr
Post by SommelierCH on Nov 29^th, 2002, 5:36pm

After all that, the damn thing doesn’t post the way it looked in the preview pane. Sorry, about that. You can copy and paste into Word and clean it up.
David J.