Sufferer descriptions
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The Cluster Headache quiz

 

Do your headaches normally last LESS THAN 15 minutes?
Do your headaches normally occur at the same time of the year and same times each day?
When you have a headache, do you walk, pace, bash your head, thrash, scream?
Are your headaches always on the same side of your head?
Do your headaches normally switch sides from day to day or during a headache?
Do you normally go from totally pain free to totally debilitated in 5-10 minutes?
When you have a headache, are you ok with other people being around you?
Do you normally experience a stuffy nostril on the same side of the face as the pain?
When you have a headache, do you normally experience nausea?
When you have a headache, can you normally lay down and be motionless?
Do your headaches normally wake you up from a sound sleep?
Do you normally experience a "droopy" eyelid on the same side of the face as the pain?
Do your headaches normally last MORE THAN 4 hours?
When you have a headache, can you normally go to sleep to make it go away?
When you have a headache, do you normally seek a quiet, dark place?
Do you normally go from totally debilitated to totally pain free in 5-10 minutes?

 

Evaluation


There is approximately a 

50

% chance that you suffer from

clusterheadaches according to the above quiz.


No matter what type of headache you have, the most important thing is that you see a health care professional for treatment. Self-diagnoses of head pain can be life threatening!

Please read all of the information on this site as you can about cluster headaches. There are many good links on the links page to all kinds of other headache sites and pages on the net where you can research your headaches. Please inform yourself about your headaches as much as possible! Knowledge is power!