Jo Mark asked:


Do You Suffer from excruciating migraine headaches, painful sinus headaches, or throbbing cluster headaches? Do you get headaches more often than once a week? Do your headaches bring on any of the following symptoms?

Nausea or vomiting

Pounding, throbbing pain

Sensitivity to light, noise, or odors

Blurred vision

Upset stomach

Abdominal pain

Loss of appetite

Feeling very warm or cold

Fatigue

Dizziness

See bright flashing dots or lights

Unfortunately, you are not alone if you answered yes to any of the questions above. About 90% of the world’s population suffers from headaches to some degree. Most people use traditional remedies like painkillers to alleviate headache pain. But painkillers have a downside. If taken in excess over long periods of time, painkillers can result in serious health conditions, including internal bleeding and end-stage kidney disease, among others.

And, in addition to being detrimental to your health, taking traditional painkillers on an ongoing basis can be very expensive. And, they only mask your headache symptoms. They do nothing to eliminate the cause of your headaches. Using traditional painkillers, your headaches will return again and again!

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Angela

Leslie Bogaerts asked:


Before we can discuss the different possible treatments for cluster headaches, we need to make sure you know what cluster headaches really are. Cluster headaches are also known as “suicide headaches”, they are the most painful headaches you can have. The headaches will occur in clusters that can go on for up to 6 to 8 weeks. Sometimes even longer. When you have cluster headaches, you will recognize it with these symptoms: the headaches will be very severe and around one eye or the temple area. The duration can vary between fifteen minutes to three hours, up to 8 times a day and this for several weeks.

Cluster headache treatment options

At this day there aren’t many options to treat cluster headaches. One of the best abortive treatment is the inhalation of 100% oxygen. When you use pure oxygen the headache can go away in as little as 5 minutes. The downside is that you need to have oxygen ready at any time.

Over-the-counter medicine isn’t considered to be very effective in treating cluster headaches. Most of the patients will have tried different prescriptions and will tell you that none of them was able to remove the pain. The main factor for this is that these drugs don’t work fast enough. The headache will be gone before the drug starts working.

For cluster headaches only a small quantity of treatments will be helpful. The goal lies with helping to decrease the severity of the pain and shorten the period. Because of the, sometimes, short attack, acute medications must be fast-acting and delivered quickly after the attack start.

What do acute treatments include?

The first, most important, acute treatment is oxygen. Briefly inhaling 100% oxygen will provide relief for most who use it. You need to inhale the oxygen through a mask at a rate of 6 to 8 liters a minute, in some cases a higher flow rate may be find to be more effective. The normal time between the start of the inhalation and the relief of the pain will be between 15 minutes. But like I said, the downside is that you need to have oxygen ready at any time. You need to carry an oxygen cylinder and regulator with you. This makes that the treatment is inconvenient and sometimes even inaccessible. The other downside is, that it only delays and doesn’t stop the attack. They pain may return.

Another possible treatment option is sumatriptan. In injectable form it is commonly used to treat normal migraine attacks. There are some cluster headache sufferers who benefit from using sumatriptan in nasal spray form. It is not recommended to people with uncontrolled high blood pressure or ischemic hearth disease.

A third treatment option is dihydroergotamine. This is an ergo derivative and is available in intravenous, injectable and inhaler forms. For some people with cluster headaches this is found to be an effective pain reliever. The fastest way to find relief with dihydroergotamine is with the intravenous option. But you need to go to a hospital or doctor’s office to have an IV line placed. The inhaler form of the drug works more slowly. You need to limit the dosage to avoid side effects.

Surgery

People who suffer from chronic cluster headaches and that don’t respond well to aggressive treatment are often recommended to have surgery. It is only recommended to people that have the pain at one side of the head because the surgery can be performed only once.

Potential treatment

Researchers are still learning more about the causes of the cluster headache. This will help to develop more specific treatment for the condition.

Although definitive treatment for cluster headaches is still far away, we are able to control to pain in most of the cases. Hopefully in a not so far future we will have learned enough so we can make the pain go forever.



Anna

Lula asked:


Whenever I study, I get headaches so bad that I have to stop what I’m doing. And it’s not like I’m always studying, I do take breaks……What do I do to get rid of them?
I have glasses and wear them, just so you know.

Luis

Jonathan Higgins asked:


The cluster headache has two main characteristics. First, the cluster headache is extremely painful. The pain is so intense that some sufferers even feel that the condition is life threatening, which it is not. The second characteristic is the cyclical nature of the cluster headache. They tend to come a certain times and then last for several weeks or months and then disappear, sometimes for years,only to return again. So, before seeking cluster headache treatment, be sure that it is indeed what you are suffering from.

The best cluster headache treatment available is abortive oxygen treatment. The patient inhales pure oxygen through a mask for several minutes until the pain is gone. This treatment is very successful for many sufferers. Often, through oxygen inhalation the pain will be gone after just a few minutes. For others the relief may only be temporary and return after the sufferer stops inhaling the oxygen.

The only problem with the use of oxygen in cluster headache treatment is the inconvenience. Oxygen tanks are bulky, heavy and difficult to carry around with you. Many people are able to have them in their home in preparation for the onset of an attack. However, attacks may come when driving or while at work. Unless you purchase apparatus for home, car and work, then oxygen cluster headache treatment may not be always be available to you.

There are also some pharmaceutical options for cluster headache treatment. Imitrex (sumatriptan) is an injection that is often used to treat migraine headaches but has also been found to be effective with cluster headaches. Imitrex has side effects that the sufferer will want to consider together with their doctor before using this option.

There is also an IV drug that can be used for cluster headache treatment. It’s called dihydroergotamine and requires the sufferer to go to the doctor’s office to have the drug administered intravenously. This headache remedy is likewise very inconvenient because it requires a visit to the doctor’s office.

Consider the Cause of Your Headaches

Remember that even though we must depend on doctors to help us with cluster headache treatment, they aren’t always successful at diagnosing illnesses. What may have all the symptoms of a cluster headache may in fact be something entirely different. For example, some foods cause headaches in some people. If you eat these foods occasionally, then the headaches they cause you may behave like cluster headaches, coming and going in episodes. Or, some foods may cause you headaches only some of the time. Since the pain would come in episodes the headaches would appear to be of the cluster variety.

If you are diagnosed with having cluster headaches, you should listen to your doctor, however don’t give up experimenting with your diet to see if some foods may actually be the cause. Or, if something you are eating is not causing the headaches, it could be making them more painful.

Finally, are you out of shape and don’t eat healthily? Even though exercise and diet are not scientifically established causes of cluster headaches, I would definitely consider exercising more and eating better if I was consistently in a lot of pain. It is my sneaking suspicion that a lot of ailments are the result of a poor lifestyle and not just inevitable and unlucky occurrences we have no control over.



Anita

Matthew Hick asked:


There are many reasons for frequent headaches: stress, insomnia, tiredness, poor eating habits and even illness. Before you can determine how to treat your next headache, you first have to figure out its cause.

Most headache sufferers report a set of “triggers,” which precipitate attacks, or periods of prolonged headache pain. These triggers can be as simple as a stressful afternoon, or sudden changes in the weather, to certain perfumes and odors, to hormone changes, and seasonal allergies or even infection.

The most common, or the tension-style headache,is experienced by nearly 80% of adults periodically throughout their lives. A nonspecific type of headache, with no vascular or migraneous cause, it is not organic in nature. Believed to be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, this common type of headache features a vice-like grip of pain throughout the forehead and temples. It responds fairly well to over-the-counter analgesics when taken sporadically.

More severe types of headaches such as migraines and clusters, are harder to diagnose and treat, since their causes vary from person to person. While more women than men experience migraines (which may be due to changing hormone levels in the body), the opposite is the case for cluster headaches, with 90% of sufferers being male.

Migraines are characterized by a throbbing head pain in one side of the face or head. They are usually accompanied by other symptoms including nausea, cold hands, and sensitivity to light and sound. Treatment includes a daily regiment of preventative medications as well as relaxation and stress-relieving techniques. Most sufferers report a decrease in migraines when they are able to pinpoint and avoid certain triggers.

Clusters, or groupings of headaches that are experienced on a daily basis for days, weeks or even months may be experienced by as many as one million sufferers in the United States alone. Also referred to as histamine, cephalagia, red or Horton’s headaches, this type of headache starts suddenly, with little or no warning, and can last up to an hour, with up to 4-6 of these attacks in a single day. Antidepressants have been used successfully to treat this syndrome, even when depression was not a factor.

Headaches due to hormones may account for the frequency of most female-generated headaches, with attacks coming before, during and after menses, while pregnant or undergoing menopause. Sudden spikes and drips in estrogen have been linked to the onset of both mild headaches and severe migraines. Hormone replacement therapy has been useful in treating post-menopausal headaches. Others can try basic analgesics to lesson the pain. If symptoms become severe talk to your doctor about other treatment options now available.

Everyone experiences a headache from time to time, but chronic, repetitive headaches that interfere with normal activities should be discussed with a physician. Help is available, once a proper diagnosis is made.



Jennifer

Enigma asked:


i also have neack pain. My doc tested my BP and it was on higher side. But she said this might not be causing headaches. She also gave me a medicine for BP and headache, which are safe to use in pregnancy. But i am still skeptical taking them. Any remedies for headaches.

Roberto

Shelby asked:


I understand my homework and everything, but it just takes a long time and ive been getting headaches while doing it and that just makes doing my homework 10 times worse. Not doing it is not a option, so what can i do?

Cindy

geoherb2000 asked:


After my periods , I get these bad headaches, they are so bad. Is there not a way to stop them? Even if I take pain killers, the pain takes long to go down. Help please !

Thanks a lot.

Marjorie

Ferret Face asked:


I have bad tingling in my feet today along with sharp headaches, I always have headaches, but the tingling in my feet is never this bad.

What could be causing this? Also it was in my hands earlier.
What should I do?

Gilbert