Cluster headaches please help before they totally ruin my life?
Im suffering from cluster headaches and am at the moment enduring a long period of attacks. I can get as many as three a day and always one in the middle of the night - which wakes me up in absolute agony. Im scared to go out of the house because the pain is too unbearable and I never know when its going to start. When I go to sleep I just know Im going to wake up in the most terrible pain and the tablets wont help because the attack is already well underway. Problem is that Im starting to get really depressed about it - Im married with kids and I have to keep myself normal and working and together for them - but its becoming too hard for me. How do I just keep it all together?? Please if there are any cluster sufferers out there I need you right now - help me.
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1. I solved the problem through a friend introducing me to specific supplements and increasing water intake. I haven't had another cluster headache in 8 years.Send me a message for details.
2. Right. You need to see a specialist doctor, preferably a neurologist to examin you thoroughly and sort you out with appropriate painkillers. Asap!
3. I had a few weeks of cluster headaches. Like you, the pills did not work. You have my sympathies - it's the regular-as-clockworkness that grinds you down.
They did go away eventually, looking back, what seemed to be the cause was stress and erratic sleep patterns. Stress is part of a feedback loop, you feel bad, you get headaches, you feel bad. Maybe a holiday? To get your sleep on track, follow all hints and tips for a good night sleep (I cut out caffiene, hell for a coffee lover) and set the alarm for exactly 8 hours. If it's really bad ask the docs for sleeping pills - that way no middle of the night wake-ups.
Good luck.
4. I suffered from cluster headaches in pretty much the same way you did and got no help from the doctors. They said they were migraines, but whatever they were they were dibilitating. This is not to scare you, but I had a brain hemorrhage and after the surgery......brilliant......NO headaches. They said there was no connection but something rectified the situation.
Just recently through some new drugs I was prescribed (read my 360o) they began again but this time I was literally on the floor with the pain begging for help.This time even morphine didn't help and only made me sick. Luckily it was me that made the connection between the drugs and the pain and I told the doctor I wanted to come off everthing but the bare essensials. It worked and now I'm pain free again.
Sending you a hug because I know how desperate you become. One thing I did find helped me and this sounds insane but it worked to a degree. I bought a super power charged vibrator (Toshiba Magic Wand) and used in on my neck, pulse points and anywhere it seemed to confuse the pulsing pain that went straight into my brain stem.
I also went to see a chiropractor who released all tenseness that came with the pain I also had a fantastic massage afterwards. This really seemed to work.
I don't know your age, but I do suggest you have your blood pressure checked and TELL your doctor you want these cluster headaches investigated by a specialist because you can't function. Don't be afraid and write a diary because any specialist will want to see if there is any pattern also include your food intake. It's boring but exclude the obvious first.
Sometimes you don't realise how much this affects you until you are pain free. I for one feel so damn happy to be rid of these headaches and I wish the same for you.
By the way if the vibrator doesn't work on your head you have a perfect excuse for putting it to use elsewhere <grins>
Good luck
Misha
5. Headache is among the most common medical complaints. Some of the reasons which cause headache are hypertension, over work, mental stress, indigestion, sleeplessness, fever, anemia, deficiency of oxygen in the blood, etc. Check out http://useinfo-headache.blogspot.com/ for more info
6. There is no medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.
Acidity, WORRY, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation;
Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy are their causes. None of them can be treated with medicine. Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.
Acupuncture is the best treatment. I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.
Avoid late sleeping if possible;spicy, sour, stale bakery foods and alcohole.
Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help you.
But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it isvery strong.
If it is acute pl search a painful point 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.
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