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(Message started by: Jim R on Jun 18^th, 2003, 5:12am)

Title: Excerpt from headache discussion....
Post by Jim R on Jun 18^th, 2003, 5:12am

on WebMD. Dr. Diamond (yeah, I know....), but interesting nonetheless. Most of the article is about meegraines, but there was this one small section devoted to us:

Member: Why do migraines onset in the middle of the night?

Diamond: It’s rare that migraine attacks will wake a person up from sleep. Cluster headaches will do that. Most migraine sufferers will wake up and tell you their headache started when they wake up, but it has to be a very severe migraine to actually wake you up during a sound sleep. Cluster headaches are God’s way to repay men for giving migraine to women.
They are called cluster because they occur in groups or bunches. Ninety percent of sufferers are male. The sufferer will get this one-sided headache usually around the eye. It is a severe stabbing pain lasting 15 minutes to four hours, and the sufferer gets a group of them occurring two to 12 times a day for two to three months. Tearing of the eye, flushing of the face, and drooping of the eyelid all accompany the headache.

Jim R

Title: Re: Excerpt from headache discussion....
Post by suzy617 on Jun 18^th, 2003, 10:43am

90 percent are males? ??? :-/

suzy

Title: Re: Excerpt from headache discussion....
Post by don on Jun 18^th, 2003, 10:45am

Quote:

They are called cluster because they occur in groups or bunches. Ninety percent of sufferers are male.

There are three kinds of lies,
Lies
Big Lies, and
Statistics

Mark Twain

Title: Re: Excerpt from headache discussion....
Post by aprilbee on Jun 18^th, 2003, 10:50am

Everything I've read suggests CH occurs more in Men than Women, but I think a lot of women are misdiagnosed, more and more women are now being diagnosed with CH, so that statistic will be extremely outdated soon.