Cluster headache history and symptoms
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Overview
Overview
Cluster headache sufferers typically experience very severe headaches of a piercing quality near one eye or temple that last for fifteen minutes to three hours with some lasting days (rarely more than three days). The headaches are typically unilateral and rarely change sides during the same cycle (see episodic). Cluster headaches have a characteristic circadian periodicity and usually present with autonomic symptoms.
History and symptoms
History and symptoms
Symptoms of cluster headache may include:
- Horner’s syndrome:[8]
- Ptosis
- Conjunctival injection
- Lacrimation
- Miosis
- Eyelid edema
- Nasal congestion
- Rhinorrhea
- Sweating on the affected side of the face.
- Neck pain or stiffness
- Jaw and teeth pain (occassionally)
- Photophobia (rare)
References
References
- ↑ Charlotte E. Grayson and The Cleveland Clinic Neuroscience Center (October 2004). “Cluster Headaches”. WebMD. Retrieved 2006-09-22.
- ↑ Brian D. Loftus (2005). “Cluster Headache and Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania Overview”. Retrieved 2006-09-22.
- ↑ Goldstein, Michael. “Cluster Headache”. New Atlantean Press. 1999.
- ↑ Arne May, Anish Bahra, Christian Büchel, Richard S J Frackowiak, Peter J Goadsby; University Department of Clinical Neurology (May, Bahra, Goadsby), and Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology (Büchel, Frackowiak), Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London UK (1998 July 25;352(9124):275-8). “Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks”. The Lancet. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Drummond PD (October 1994). “Sweating and vascular responses in the face: normal regulation and dysfunction in migraine, cluster headache and harlequin syndrome”. Clin. Auton. Res. 4 (5): 273–85. doi:10.1007/BF01827433. PMID 7888747.
- ↑ Drummond PD (June 2006). “Mechanisms of autonomic disturbance in the face during and between attacks of cluster headache”. Cephalalgia. 26 (6): 633–41. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2982.2006.01106.x. PMID 16686902.
- ↑ Ekbom K (August 1990). “Evaluation of clinical criteria for cluster headache with special reference to the classification of the International Headache Society”. Cephalalgia. 10 (4): 195–7. doi:10.1046/j.1468-2982.1990.1004195.x. PMID 2245469.
- ↑ Graff JM, Lee AG (February 21, 2005). “Horner’s Syndrome (due to Cluster Headache): 46 y.o. man presenting with headache and ptosis”. Ophthalmology Grand Rounds. The University of Iowa. Retrieved 2006-09-22.
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