Some of us have had and then some of us have had cluster headaches. A cluster headache can be characterized as a rare and extremely painful type of headache that can happen in a group. Cluster headache symptoms are often caused by weather or environmental changes or some kind of external stimulus. A cluster headache has been the culprit of pain so intense that it has driven people to suicide, earning the cluster headache the horrible reputation as being the suicide headache.
How Much Pain is Pain
A cluster headache can be one of the most painful kinds of someone can suffer from and, just like most any other headache, too little is understood about what causes such a miserable headache and what might be the most beneficial treatment for those suffering from a painful cluster headache. Cluster headache symptoms can begin with sudden pain, often a sharp, intense type of pain in the area near the temple or around the eye.
Some headache sufferers compare the pain to a nail being hammered through an eye or boiling water being poured directly into an eye socket. The pain can endure from about 15 minutes to several hours. In the most extreme cases it can last for several days. When taking in to consideration that many major medical journals have reference the pain and discomfort of cluster headache symptoms as the most devastating pain known to humans, it further explains why the cluster headache has earned the infamous reputation of being called the suicide headache. It is reported that a cluster headache makes a migraine look minimal.
Just Simply Not a Good Thing
Anyone suffering from cluster headache symptoms is quickly incapacitated and unable to do anything other than cope with the pain. Cluster headache symptoms include muscle tightness, facial sweating and nausea. Cluster headache symptoms can also be recurring. People with these types of have been known to experience the cluster headache symptoms at the same time for multiple days consecutively and for nearly the same amount of time during each episode. These cluster have been known for such severe pain that they can awake a person sleeping soundly which has earned the cluster headache the reputation of becoming a very difficult alarm clock for a sufferer to awake with.
Seeking Treatment
Doctors familiar with cluster are more likely to be able to diagnose and treat this very rare condition but many other doctors have been known to misdiagnose it as a migraine and consequently wound up trying to treat it incorrectly. Over the counter pain medications have almost no effect on cluster headache symptoms and only certain types of prescribed steroid based medications have much effect on pain relief.
Often people who have attempted to obtain medical intervention for this frustrating condition are misdiagnosed as drug addicts looking for a quick hit due to their irrational behavior caused by the pain of the headaches. Cluster headache symptoms and the eventual onset of a full blown headache are serious. Seek out a doctor as soon as possible to resolve recurring eye pain and other cluster headache symptoms.
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