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anthony g

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migraine/cluster
Apr 17^th, 2010 at 5:24pm

Hey all
i went to a headache specialist Dr Wheeler in miami yesterday! I have been ib cycle since christmas and although i have no real hits in a month and a half i have been having "shadows" almost everyday more annoying than anything! My appointment with this amazing doctor lasted 3 and a half hours! His diagnosis at the end of our extensive meeting was that I have migraine/ with clusters! YIPPIE! He believes the shadows are considered a headache just the same, what alot of us call "shadows" he say's he calls it a low graade headache! My vitamin D level was extremly low so he put me on a D supplement say's D is very important! Feel's great to have an amazing "specialist" and hope this cycle break's soon! Anyone else have /cluster/migrain combined?
thanks for listening
hope all are well
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: migraine/cluster Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 6:22pm How many I.U.'s per day, if I may ask, and is it straight vitamin D or D3?
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Marc Ex Member Gender:	Re: migraine/cluster Reply #2 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 8:40pm I am watching too because this keeps coming up and I'm a slow learner......
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Headache Boy uk CH.com Old Timer Offline Matthew ch 11 v 28 Posts: 373 Mersea Island nr Colchester Gender:	Re: migraine/cluster Reply #3 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 9:08pm Sounds a lot better than my neuro appointment that lasted less than 5 minuets and he didn't listen to a word I said. Nigel
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anthony g CH.com Old Timer Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 318 manhattan nyc Gender:	Re: migraine/cluster Reply #4 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 10:17pm hey brew he has me on 50,000 iu a day for 7 days then 50,000 once a week its biotech D3-50
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Reply #5 - Apr 17^th, 2010 at 10:22pm

I get migraines and clusters and the two are no where alike. The migraines throb and pulse and make me nautious and throwup. I seek a dark room to lay in. I get sound and light sensitivity. It is always a 6 on a kip scale and can last one to three days.

A cluster is always a 10 and I bang my head and thrash around the place begging God to have mercy on Me and just let me die in peace. It is always in the same location and is sharp and stabbing and my eye pupils get small and my nose runs.

The shadows I feel are a low level headache in the same area I get a cluster headache at but it is a 2-4 on the pain scale. I have had a migraine and a cluster at the same time and it is no fun. Angry

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Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2010 at 8:44am

Not terribly common but you are not alone.
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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

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anthony g CH.com Old Timer Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 318 manhattan nyc Gender:	Re: migraine/cluster Reply #7 - Apr 18^th, 2010 at 9:03am thanx bob! that explains me to the tee! its exactly what my specialist said on friday! can always count on u my friend!! thanx again!
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