Many people are just beginning to hear about the extremely painful phenomenon known as cluster headaches. But most of them have no idea what it’s like to go through a cluster headache attack. For the average person, it’s just an intellectual awareness. They tend to think that these are just like regular headaches, only a bit more painful, sort of like migraines. Unfortunately for the victims, nothing could be further from the truth. Suffering through a cluster headache makes having a regular headache seem like a walk in the park, and even migraines don’t even come close to comparing to them. Read more »

If you suffer from cluster headaches, you know the intense, almost unbearable pain that this malady visits on its victims. You know first hand just how horrible these headaches are because you’ve live through them. And you want to do whatever it takes to avoid any more attacks in the future. Well, this article is for you, because by reading it you’ll learn how you can reduce your number of these painful headaches by cutting down as much as possible the most common cluster headache triggers. There are three main ones. Avoid these, and you’ll likely reduce the number of attacks you suffer. Read more »

What do you think is the easiest illness to diagnose? If you think headaches because they are the most common known to man, you are wrong. It’s not because they are common, that they are all the same. Read more »

Cluster headaches are arquably one of the most painful conditions known to man and their only saving grace is that they are fortunately fairly rare. For instance, although approximately one person out of every ten of the population suffers from migraine headaches, only about one person in three hundred will experience a cluster headache. Read more »

Chronic cluster headache sufferers are some of the most unfortunate human beings on the planet. Cluster headaches, one of the most painful experiences a human being can live through, are extremely debilitating. It’s impossible for a person to function at all during an attack; all they can think about is the horrible, blinding pain and praying it will go away. This intense pain can last for well over an hour, and it often comes on right after falling asleep, which causes insomnia to be one of the most common problems victims of chronic cluster headaches have to deal with, on top of their headaches. Because they know that attacks are very likely after drifting off, they become filled with dread at the thought of going to bed and falling asleep. Read more »

Cluster headaches are nothing like ordinary, run of the mill headaches, as anyone who has ever suffered one can tell you. They are far more painful than the regular variety. Believe it or not, they’re even worse than migraine headaches. The pain of a cluster headache is so intense that most people describe it as unbearable, and when one comes on there is no way for the person to function, unlike a low grade garden variety headache, which can usually be managed. Most people say a cluster headache feels like they’re being stabbed in the eye. Read more »

Science still understands very little about cluster headaches, but they have made some progress in identifying the most common cluster headache triggers. If you or a loved one suffers from these debilitating attacks, this article will help you to better understand what can trigger them, and how you can sometimes avoid doing something that will trigger a cluster attack. Read more »

Cluster headache symptoms fall into two categories, major and minor. The really big one is the stabbing sensation in one eye, or one side of the face. If you’ve ever had this happen to you, and it lasted for around an hour or so, you probably had a cluster headache. But there are a great many minor symptoms that accompany cluster headaches, and we’ll discuss them in this article. Read more »

Cluster headaches are often confused with migraine headaches, but these are two different maladies entirely. Make no mistake; migraines are terribly painful, and people who have them have a difficult cross to bear. But cluster headaches are, believe it or not, even worse. Only those who have actually experienced the horror of them actually know what it’s like. In this article, I’ll give an overview of cluster headache symptoms, for those who are living with them but don’t know what they’re called. Read more »

Cluster headaches are one of the most debilitating and unpleasant health problems a person can face. The pain a victim suffers is excruciating, often lasting for hours, leaving the sufferer completely incapacitated until the pain subsides. Desperate for relief from the blinding pain, many sufferers in search of a remedy turn to things like aspirin and Tylenol, but to no avail. Unfortunately, there is no over the counter pain medication that is an effective cluster headache treatment. Usually, for most people, prescription drugs are used for dealing with cluster headaches. Read more »

Today I came accross an article on possible cluster headache treatment. Nine studies, involving 201 participants, led scientists to the conclusion that migraine sufferers may find relief from hyperbaric oxygen tharapy. In English this means: inhaling pure oxygen at high pressure in a special chamber. Read more »