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Cluster Headache

by Death Verified

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Peter Goadsby: Cluster headache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. I know that's quite a strong remark to make, but if you ask a cluster headache patient if they've had a worse experience, they'll universally say they haven't.

John: It's like somebody's pushing a finger or a pencil into your eyeball, and not stopping, and they just keep pushing and pushing, because the pain's centred in the eyeball, and nothing else has ever been that painful in my life. I mean I've had days when I've thought 'If this doesn't stop, I'm going to jump off the top floor of my building', but I know that they're going to end (...)

Peter Goadsby: Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anaesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight or ten weeks at a time, and then have a break. It's just awful.

John: They come on very rapidly. You suddenly realise that you have a pain behind your eye. Headaches is really a terrible word to use because I get the odd headache and it's not a drama, but these ones, as soon as you get the first twinge you know that within five minutes you may lose control of yourself and be reduced to a whimpering - yes, you can't stand still, you can't lie down even if you're by yourself and there's no-one around, and if you're in public it's really hard to bear the pain courageously, because it's intense and so continuous. Violent pain doesn't generally last; if you bang your head against something it hurts for a moment and then it subsides. It just doesn't subside with a cluster headache, it goes on for an hour-and-a-half and then all of a sudden it stops, and you think, 'It's finished, thank God.' I mean you're shattered, but at least you don't have the pain anymore.

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released January 21, 2024
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