Posted by Dennis on February 18, 1999 at 00:35:07:
In Reply to: Give your Dr. this address! posted by Barbara D. on February 14, 1999 at 07:39:07:
I would submit that there is more information on this website alone, that if the "Joe" and "Jane" Doctors out there would just review it, they'd come away with far mor than they ever new about CHs before and probably look at us with a totally different point of view. Maybe they'd be courteous enough to crusade for us....and talk to all their Pharmaceutical buddies to speed up their respective Cluster Headache R & D for our sake! We really should challenge our doctors! If you are a doctor and you're reading this, you just gotta let your circles of medical associates know: No one visits their threshold of sustained pain tolerance more than Cluster Headache sufferers. Read about us....right here! About what we endure. And don't compare our pain to migraines or any other headache. Clusters are not even an "ache". We just call them that for convenience. Forget about symtoms: the red, droopy, watery eye; the stuffy nose that's so sensitive, you can barely blow it...you just sort of daub it dry. Clusters headaches are a brutal, burning, stabbing, unrelenting pain from hell. Got it???