| While most of us experience headaches at one time | | | | time within periods. For example, a person may |
| or another, normally it's something a few aspirin will | | | | experience terrible headache every 2 p.m. of the day |
| cure. This is not the case with cluster headaches, and | | | | for the whole summer. After summer, that person |
| while there are many possible remedies, there has | | | | will not feel the headache anymore, until the following |
| yet to be a definitive cure. Some Medical Journals | | | | summer, when the cluster of headaches start to |
| report that the pain of a cluster headache is so | | | | reappear. The cluster headache can occur in anyone, |
| severe it is almost beyond our capacity to withstand. | | | | but is more common among men from 20 to 40 |
| The median age of a cluster headache sufferer is 30 | | | | years of age. There seems to be no correlation |
| years old. Most of those who develop cluster | | | | between the fact that these headaches strike men |
| headaches have their first cluster headache between | | | | in the years when they are commonly parents of |
| the age of 20 and 50. Nevertheless, you can develop | | | | young children. The pain from the localized and very |
| a cluster headache at any time in life. Some people | | | | painful cluster headache drives people to crazed |
| actually experience their firs symptoms before they | | | | antics or desperate acts to distract their mind from |
| even turn 10-years-old. There are also some people | | | | the pain. They may wander listlessly, move crazily |
| who do not get cluster headaches until they are | | | | and even beat their heads against walls. |
| 80-years-old or older. Men are usually affected more | | | | Cluster headache symptoms often begin just after |
| often than women. In fact, five out of every six | | | | going to sleep. Doctors don't know why this is, |
| who suffer from a cluster headache is a male. | | | | exactly, but it's a common pattern. It's not universal, |
| A cluster headache is definitely one of the most | | | | though; they can come on at any time of day or |
| painful form of headaches but there are many other | | | | night. Also, the pain is located on only one side of |
| types of headaches identified by medical experts, | | | | your head or face, which is where many people |
| such as migraines and the caffeine and the | | | | mistakenly think the name cluster headaches come |
| cervicogenic headaches. Cluster headaches were | | | | from, because the pain isn't spread out evenly, but |
| called such because the headache episodes occur | | | | instead clusters in a particular area. (The name |
| frequently and at the same time within periods. For | | | | actually refers to the fact that cluster headaches |
| example, a person may experience terrible headache | | | | occur in clusters of time, with attacks happening over |
| every 2 p.m. of the day for the whole summer. After | | | | a period of weeks or months, then stopping.) In the |
| summer, that person will not feel the headache | | | | vast sufferers, the pain is on the same side of the |
| anymore, until the following summer, when the | | | | face in during nearly every headache, while a small |
| cluster of headaches start to reappear. | | | | minority of people report that the attacks alternate |
| Cluster headaches were called such because the | | | | between both sides. |
| headache episodes occur frequently and at the same | | | | |