Posted by lc bob on February 16, 1999 at 17:53:21:
hey folks - check THIS out. maybe that ol' family tree has some cluster branches after all! saw some familial speculation last week. FY'allsI.
(i set the link for the page i found this).
Familial Cluster Headache: Report of Three Families
Domenico D'Amico, Massimo Leone, Francii Moschiano and Gennaro Bussone
"We report on three families in which cluster headache is present in more than one member. In one of these families a boy, his father, and paternal grandfather were affected. In the other two families, a father and son and mother and daughter were the affected members. Diagnoses were based on IHS criteria, after examining and taking the history directly from the patient in all but one of the seven cases; the seventh patient was deceased and the diagnosis was based on reports from the affected son. Considered in the light of other recent reports of familial cluster headache, these cases suggest that cluster headache can have a genetic component."
looks like some research is being done ... with surprising results. but maybe it shouldn't be so surprising.
hmmmm ... if CH is just now being researched, how is it possible to say it's not genetic or has familial components? how many of my ancestors may have had CH but since CH didn't exist (!!) or wasn't known they weren't diagnosed with it - making me the first in my family with CH and proving it's not hereditary?
correct me if i'm wrong - but there's a credibility problem here!
yas poos chetti!!!