Posted by Scott on January 21, 1999 at 20:01:50:
I’m a male 32 years of age and on my second cluster. Last one was about 2 ½ years ago and lasted about a month. My doctor gave me an allergy shot and I never had another until two weeks ago. This one started right after the first of the year. We just got a dog and a cat, and I am wandering if there is a connection (cluster headaches are associated with histamine in the brain and histamine is associated with allergies) I’m telling myself that they started before we got the pets. I had a couple of headaches a few days before and they seemed to have cluster headache characteristics, but I’m not sure. Does anybody have any thoughts on this. Are cluster headaches associated with allergies? I started out on Fioranol, and that got me through the first set. Didn’t seem to work so well on this set. Neither did the allergy shot. I went back to my doctor, and I was prescribed Imetrex. That seemed to work OK some of the times, but takes about an hour to work and sometimes longer. I’m heading out to pick up a prescription of Zomig. I have been seeing a general practitioner who seems to be doing a good job trying to help me. Should I see a neurologist? I guess, like everybody else I am looking for a miracle cure.