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(Message started by: horsegirl on Oct 13^th, 2007, 5:24pm)

Title: Temporal Arteritis
Post by horsegirl on Oct 13^th, 2007, 5:24pm

Hello,

I came across this article the other day and many of the symptoms are closely related with cluster migraines, just wanted to make you all aware of it.

http://www.stlukeseye.com/Conditions/TemporalArteritis.asp

Some of the signs and symptoms:

Quote:

Patients with temporal arteritis usually notice visual symptoms in one eye at first, but as many as 50% may notice symptoms in the fellow eye within days if the condition is untreated.

Headache
Tenderness of scalp (combing hair may be painful)
Pain in temple area (may be excruciating)
Transient blurred vision
Loss of appetite
Fever
Fatigue
Depression
Drooping lid
Double vision
Sore neck
Jaw soreness, especially when chewing food

Hope this can be of help to someone.

Title: Re: Temporal Arteritis
Post by Lotus on Oct 13^th, 2007, 6:17pm

The main difference between CH and temporal arteritis is the length and the severity of the symptoms.

With CH the symptoms only last as long as the attack itself and will completely resolved after that, only to recur at the next hit. While with TA, the symptoms start mild, can last for days and the pain is sharp but not severe. No one needs to sit there and rock or push on the eye and cry or scream with TA.

Also with TA, if you push on the temporal area and neck you will feel the pain much more acute then around the eye, while with CH the main pain is behind and around the eye.

TA happens more commonly in the elderlies and it can cause sudden blindness in one or both eyes therefore it is considered an emergency.

Annette

Title: Re: Temporal Arteritis
Post by horsegirl on Oct 13^th, 2007, 6:20pm

hi had to give that artical to my son in law to post cause i didn't know how. I would't of worded it like that, theres only a couple symptoms , and it usualy only hits older people , but not always. My worry was someone comming for help here, either misdiagnosed or diagnoising themselves, and that would be real bad because blindness happens rapidly I baleve. the experts here will have to educate themselves with this desease to steer someone elsewhere. I work in a alzhimers unit and a specialist sent this paperwork back with her for us to determine if we thought the symptoms matched hers , sense she can't realy communicate it , other then she's in terrible pain in her neck and the side of her head. thats when I read the symptoms and thought wow , somone not knowin ch might get mixed up. just a heads up to the expert here. thanks eve

Title: Re: Temporal Arteritis
Post by Lotus on Oct 13^th, 2007, 9:32pm

Hello Eve

I understand that you posted the information to alert people to the similarities between the two conditions and thank you very much for that.

I wasnt trying to correct you, I was only adding some more information to help people distinguishing the two more clearly. :)

Annette

Title: Re: Temporal Arteritis
Post by horsegirl on Oct 14^th, 2007, 5:05pm

hi annette, no I wrote the above before i even read your post I balieve, maybe at the same time.I just read what my daughters husband wrote , I bout fell off my chair when I read clustermigrains , I hate that phrase , but he didn't know any better. I would of posted the website for T A myslf, but like I say I'm just no good at computers. Eve

Title: Re: Temporal Arteritis
Post by seasonalboomer on Oct 14^th, 2007, 10:24pm

on 10/14/07 at 17:05:47, horsegirl wrote:

but like I say I'm just no good at computers. Eve

Eve, slow down when you type and you can make it a lot easier for everyone to read. A couple moments spent checking your post before you hit "post" can be the difference between us understanding you or not.