What are cluster headaches?
Cluster headaches, which occur in cyclical patterns or cluster periods, are one of the most painful types of headaches.
A cluster headache commonly awakens you in the middle of the night with intense pain in or around one eye on one side of your head.
Bouts of frequent attacks, known as cluster periods, can last from weeks to months. During remission, no headaches occur for months and sometimes even years.
Fortunately, cluster headache is rare and not life-threatening. Treatments can make cluster headache attacks shorter and less severe.
Common signs and symptoms cluster headache strikes quickly, usually without warning, although you might first have migraine-like nausea and aura. Common signs and symptoms during a headache include:
The excruciating pain is generally situated in, behind or around one eye, but may radiate to other areas of your face, head, and necktie-sided pain
Excessive tearing Redness of your eye on the affected side stuffy or runny nose on the affected side forehead or facial sweating on the affected side pale skin (pallor) or flushing on your face swelling around your eye on the affected side dropping eyelid on the affected side some migraine-like symptoms — including sensitivity to light and sound — can occur with a cluster headache, though usually on one side.
IF you suffer from cluster headaches,
Jason
