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(Message started by: Versilleus on Nov 9^th, 2007, 6:51pm)

Title: Cluster Migraines?
Post by Versilleus on Nov 9^th, 2007, 6:51pm

I hope someone could help me explain what the above condition involves. Is it a combination of the two or migraines that attack in clusters?
A sleep specialist defined in her report that I likely suffer from them. Luckily my doctor believes, as I do, that she is misinformed about what a cluster headache is. I would like to believe that she has seen more sufferers than a typical GP. As we all know how frightfully destructive a cluster is to a healthy sleep pattern.
Any information to better aid my understanding about what a cluster migraine is would be greatly beneficial for me.

Paul

Title: Re: Cluster Migraines?
Post by thebbz on Nov 9^th, 2007, 7:10pm

My diagnosis is, episodic cluster/migraine. I have the esteemed fortune of migraine headaches along with episodic clusterheadache. Usually when in an episode, long lasting migraines accompany 5 to 8 hits a day of CH. Some doctors, even neurologists diagnose CH as cluster/migraine as this is an older diagnosis of CH. The newer diagnosis are more specific. This creates an individual diagnosis for CH. As it should be.
Others here get both types as well. If you had both you should know. There is a marked difference between the two. They both hurt. CH is the more painful of the two by far.
Hope that helps.
all the best
thebb

Title: Re: Cluster Migraines?
Post by Bob_Johnson on Nov 10^th, 2007, 10:54am

Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2007 Apr;11(2):154-7.

Cluster-migraine: does it exist?

Applebee AM, Shapiro RE.

Given C219B, Department of Neurology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. robert.shapiro@uvm.edu.

The nosological boundaries between cluster headache and migraine are sometimes ill-defined. Although the two disorders are distinct clinical entities, patients sometimes present with clinical scenarios having characteristics of both headache types, but either do not fully meet International Classification of Headache Disorders, Second Edition diagnostic criteria for either disorder or have sufficient symptoms and signs to allow both diagnoses to be present. These occasions provide diagnostic challenges and include what is variously described as migraine-cluster, cyclical migraine, clustering episodes of migraine, cluster with aura, or atypical cluster without autonomic symptoms or severe pain. Patients with symptoms overlapping cluster headache and migraine likely reflect the inherent clinical variability in each of these two disorders, rather than distinct diagnostic entities in their own right.

PMID: 17367596