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Title: Cluster Headache? Post by Kingdavi on Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:02am
Hey new here(sory somewhat long post coming), and honestly all of this research is beginning to make my head spin. I've researched both online but a lot of sites say different things regarding the symptoms of each, or sometimes make them sound to similar. So a little background(memory is fuzzy sadly) is when i was around 18 or so I started suffering from these terrible headaches, I did some homework and my symptoms matched the cluster variety closest. I had insurance then and had a doctor visit, don't remember if I even told him much but he ended up putting me on a triptan in pill form IIRC.
Headaches(what I feel are of the CH variety) stopped but have returned now(I am 22 years old). I didn't take them so seriously before and simply took pain meds to try to rid myself of them and lay in a dark room alone until I could function well enough again. Now though, I am looking into them theorily and even learned about MOH's..and I hope I didn't begin to trigger those as I didn't even knew they existed. Anyway I even took the quiz on this site and it seems im much more likely to have clusters like I thought. I wouldn't question it but reading on here about how many docs may misdiagnose you, and I had 1 episode last around 13 hours I started to question it. I'm applying for insurance tomorrow morning then seeing a doctor asap after, but I figured why not ask people who suffer from them on here? Heres what my usual is in a nutshell *usually begins slow but once I feel the uncomfort in my temple, I know whats coming *left side of the temple always, left nostril gets stuffy,left eye tears up *laying down can help if im motionless, moving makes the pain worse if I'm laying down, but standing I can walk without a pain increase *only takes a few mins for the pain to go from mild severe *on occasion i've felt the pain in the top part of my left cheak, not quite the teeth but do feel a twinge of pain if I bite down *During some attack I get nauseous, but it may be the over the counter meds I took without eating first *Usually around the same time every day, but lately my schedule with work and school is so crazy the timing seems to change with me I usually only get 1 headache a day that lasts anywhere from 1-2hrs. I have gone at most 2 days in a row with no headache since this started approx. 3 weeks ago. That day where I went from 2:30am to around 3-4pm, I took a couple asprin after the attack lasted more then 2 hours. I didn't eat so it honestly ended up backfiring I think as I think they made me nauseous. This attack was bad, during which I fell asleep twice, not exactly sure how long or what time, I just know it was twice. I normally cannot goto sleep with a headache, I woke up both times it was there, but it went away shortly after the 2nd time I woke up. It just made me think maybe I'm having a different type of headache. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to provide any details I remember to make things as easy as possible. Any and all advice will be appreciated. |
Title: Re: Cluster Headache? Post by vietvet2tours on Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:07am Kingdavi wrote on Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:02am:
Go to the Doctor. Preferably a headache specialist. It would be remiss of us to give medical advice. Potter |
Title: Re: Cluster Headache? Post by Kingdavi on Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:11am
Understandable sir, i'll just be patient for the moment.
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Title: Re: Cluster Headache? Post by Brew on Aug 26th, 2012 at 12:38pm |
Title: Re: Cluster Headache? Post by Kingdavi on Aug 26th, 2012 at 7:51pm
I updated my profile location, thanks for all of the info bob. I had already begun searching for a specialist but some of those tips will make life much easier.
Also Brew I took the quiz and fell more into the "may suffer" catagory. I'm hoping if all goes well i'll make it to a doctor sometime this week so i'll report back after that. I will keep browsing and researching on this site for more info. |
Title: Re: Cluster Headache? Post by Bob Johnson on Aug 27th, 2012 at 8:37am
Updating your intro information--your location, etc.--didn't work. Look at the name of another person's message and you will see how this ID infor will be presented.
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