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(Message started by: JDH on Mar 1^st, 2006, 2:07pm)

Title: Article in todays paper
Post by JDH on Mar 1^st, 2006, 2:07pm

I saw this Q & A w/Dr Donohue article in the St Louis Post Dispatch this morning. Looks like this guy might have a clue.
It's also good just to see someone writing about CH's and raising awareness.

Cluster headaches are indescribably painful
By Dr. Paul Donohue

03/01/2006

Dear Dr. Donohue: I'm 28 and have been driving a truck for four years. I am happily married with two children and am in good health. In the past two months I have had several headaches that are so painful they wake me from sleep, and I have to get out of bed. They last about an hour. I take aspirin for them, but I don't know if it works or if the headache just goes away on its own. What is this?

Your headaches have many of the characteristics of cluster headaches. They are the most painful of all headaches. They usually first appear between the ages of 20 and 40. They're on one side of the head, often centered around the eye. The eye on the side of the headache frequently tears, and the nostril on that side can drip mucus. The headaches can come at night, and they are so bad that they drive a person out of bed. He (male cluster headache sufferers far outnumber females with cluster headaches) paces around the house in a frenzy until the pain leaves. That can take anywhere from minutes to hours.

Cluster headaches come in "clusters." There might be several in a day or night, and they can recur for days or weeks at a time. Then they go away. But they always come back, just when you had begun to forget them.

There are many treatments. Breathing pure oxygen for 15 minutes can end a cluster headache. Migraine medicines in self-administered injections can also abort the headache. Oral medicines are of little use; they take too long to be absorbed.
If a person is in the midst of a cluster when one attack follows another, there are preventive medicines to take. Verapamil, lithium, ergotamine and prednisone are examples.

See your family doctor, who can get you on a treatment and preventive program.

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Ghost on Mar 1^st, 2006, 2:33pm

Cool someone does have a clue WOW!!!!

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Jasmyn on Mar 1^st, 2006, 4:39pm

Great to see the medical profession catching up and that CH got some exposure! [smiley=thumb.gif]

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Jonny on Mar 1^st, 2006, 5:39pm

Nice find, Jim!!...Thanks.

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by mynm156 on Mar 1^st, 2006, 5:58pm

Not bad Not Bad. I have found more and more younger Docs seem to have a clue about these. I make it a point to educate all of the one I work with. When they see me in the cluster shirt I usually get them coming and talking to me. I even found a doc in BFE Alaska last year that knew about them. She was awesome helped me out while I was there.

PF DAYS AHEAD for us ALL

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by JenniferD on Mar 1^st, 2006, 6:18pm

that's cool.

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Charlie on Mar 1^st, 2006, 6:43pm

Nice find indeed. http://kolobok.wrg.ru/smiles/standart/i-m_so_happy.gif?SSImageQuality=Full

We get him every day here. I Just haven't scanned the paper yet. He's a good guy and has dealt with cluster questions several times since his column appeared.

Charlie

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Bob P on Mar 1^st, 2006, 7:08pm

Quote:

He (male cluster headache sufferers far outnumber females with cluster headaches)

Dude may be ok!

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Jonny on Mar 1^st, 2006, 7:13pm

on 03/01/06 at 19:08:01, Bob P wrote:

Dude may be ok!

;;D......WDGCH?

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Mar 1^st, 2006, 7:16pm

That's awesome!

Carol

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by BlueMeanie on Mar 1^st, 2006, 7:22pm

Great to see an acurate article about Clusters. Looks like this guy should be added to the list of GOOD docs.

Title: Re: Article in todays paper
Post by sandie99 on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 2:33am

Yahoo! :)
About time ch gets som coverage. :)

Sanna