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(Message started by: tommy2tone on Oct 23^rd, 2004, 11:35am)

Title: Reality check for newbie
Post by tommy2tone on Oct 23^rd, 2004, 11:35am

Hello to all, and thank you in advance for your replies. First of all, I want to pass along my great, great admiration and sympathy to all you CH sufferers. Wow. Most people don't even know CH exists!!

I'm looking for a reality check. I have just come through a 2-week series of headaches, all on one side (kind of behind and above my right eye) all coming on very quickly and lasting about an hour. I had a lot of tearing in the eye on that side, too. Classic CH, right? Except the headaches were quite mild, ranging from annoying to painful - nothing as debilitating as a real CH.

I have also in the past had single, searing, sudden headaches in the same place - it felt as though someone were trying to push my eyeball out. They come on suddenly, last about an hour, then go away - but not in clusters. Random, single, and years apart. Oh, and I am 50 years old, male.

So does this sound to any of you like I'm about to join you in your little CH hell? Will the next bout, if what I am describing is really a cluster, be worse? And the next?? After reading some of your posts I'm scared to death! You folks have a great community but, no offense, I SO don't want to be part of it!!

Title: Re: Reality check for newbie
Post by E-Double on Oct 23^rd, 2004, 12:33pm

Hiya,
Try not to be scared to "death"...you just might wish it j/k sort of.

Welcome and it does suck but you MUST research and get yourself to a doctor.

We can offer tons of support and guidance but whith the exception of a few, I'm not sure of medical degrees... though many of us unfortunately know more.

Take the quiz to the left and for discomfort there are a number of nonmedicinal treatments that might help alleviate some of the pain....http://www.clusterheadaches.org/resources/non_script_treat.htm

If you think that when you have an "attack" you're gonna die than you might have the beast or some closely related cousin.....check out this site and you might find some more info http://www.upstate.edu/neurology/haas/index.html

I hope you don't and regardless of diagnosis I wish you many pain free days and nights.

Now go read!!

Best,
E.

Title: Re: Reality check for newbie
Post by Bob_Johnson on Oct 25^th, 2004, 7:48am

There are a many eye disorders which can present as cluster-like pain--so a check up is appropriate.

If these random attacks started within the last decade, all the more reason for a good work-up. Cluster-like attacks which first show up in middle to late age may signal more serious problems.