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A cluster headache is like sawing your arm off with a rusty saw with no anesthesia — Tyler Mann
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What is a cluster headache? A first-person account of the most painful condition known to man
It wakes me from a deep sleep. The agony is all-encompassing. It feels like having a white-hot screwdriver thrust through my eyeball and left there. The screwdriver is then wired up to an electric current and the voltage is continually increased.
My sinus feels like it has been washed out with acid, my temple is swollen and hot, the area under my cheek burns, my upper jaw feels like I have a toothache in every tooth. Even the roof of my mouth is sore.
Most of the pain is focused on my eyeball: as well as the screwdriver, it feels like there is a red-hot metal ball, the size of a golf ball, directly behind it, pushing it out of the socket.
If only this was a migraine,…
Resources
Cluster Headaches Are Way Worse Than Migraines
They're so bad that some people refer to them as "suicide headaches."
A Meditation on Pain
The headache was an unwanted guest. And my unwanted guest was a serial killer with an ice pick...
Cluster headaches a living 'hell' for Redskins' Terrance Knighton
Cluster headaches arrive like unexpected guests, albeit with some warning signs, so a patient could go a year or much longer without one. It sometimes fools them into believing they’re in remission. The reality, though, is they’re not. It’s almost as if their brain lies on a fault line and it’s unpredictable when these headaches will erupt.
Cluster Headaches: The Worst Possible Pain?
The rare "suicide headache" is lesser-known than migraines, widely misunderstood, and often described as the worst pain known to humans. Psychedelic drugs are being explored as a treatment, but research is still scarce.
Cluster Heads are the absolute strongest people I know
I never give up or give in. Giving up is not an option for me. If i haven't made it to the top it is because I am still climbing. Never look down on a person unless your hand is out helping them up.
Psychedelic Mushrooms Cured My Cluster Headaches
It’s 5:30 in the morning on a Friday, and I’m rolling a massive joint with one eye open. On my desk is a fresh cup of green tea with two tea bags, and tossed onto the bed is my phone with several Safari pages open to the term cluster headache. I am in a manic tailspin of despair. Pretty soon, the headache will take the vision in my right eye. (It’s already seized my left.) Soon after that, I’ll be utterly crippled. I focus intently on rolling the joint.
The Citizen Scientists Using Mushrooms to Cure Their Cluster Headaches
"We can either just live in pain or we can try and fix it ourselves."
What is a cluster headache? A first-person account of the most painful condition known to man
Cluster headaches often top online ‘most painful’ lists, beating gunshot wounds, childbirth and amputation without anaesthetic. What is it like to have ‘the beast’ inside your head? One sufferer shares his story
8 Things You Need to Know About Excruciatingly Painful Cluster Headaches
“Cluster headaches are debilitating, even for the toughest of individuals,” Dr. Weber says. “But they’re also very treatable.” Here’s everything you need to know about cluster headaches.
OUCH UK
We exist to raise general awareness of Cluster Headache within the medical profession and the general public. We offer support and guidance to sufferers and their families...
Cluster Busters
Finding relief from cluster headache through research, education, advocacy and support.
Cluster Headache Support Group
The Cluster Headache Support Group, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of patients with cluster headache and other TACs through research, information, advocacy, and compassionate support.
Doc's Cluster Headache Journal
\ Welcome to Doc's cluster headache journal. This is a place for Doc and Katy to keep a record of his cluster headache cycles and any issues related to that. It also will serve as a resource as Katy works on her documentary film project on cluster headaches.
Cluster Kate
This is a blog about my life with Cluster Headaches, Chronic "tension type" headaches, Migraines, Trigeminal Neuralgia & newly diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Frankly, I don't have a clue when or where pain the will strike, or what tomorrow has in store.
ClusterHeadSurvivor
I have a rare neurological disease called "Cluster Headaches" or more commonly known as "Suicide Headaches" for obvious reasons. I am starting this blog to connect, help and provide assistance to others in need to help.
Patient
Cluster headaches occur as attacks of severe, one-sided headaches. Typically, a number of attacks occur over several weeks - a bout (cluster) of attacks. The headaches then usually go for weeks, months or years until a next cluster of headaches develops.
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