r/ClusterHeadaches

Finally went to the doctor today due to a head pain I have been having sporadically for the past 2 years. I’m a 25 year old female who previously has no history of reoccurring headaches and would say I’ve never had a migraine. I went to an orthopedic doctor today thinking this was related to my trap muscle on one side (this weird head pain is ONLY on my left side and I can feel it run down my neck and into my trap muscle). After researching cluster migraines it does sound similar, I was just so surprised to hear this is a migraine after all since I’ve never had headaches/migraines like this in the past. This all seemed to start randomly 2 years ago. My mom and little sister suffer from migraines badly, but has anyone been diagnosed with cluster migraines out of the blue? I definitely questioned this diagnosis at first, I’m just a little dumb founded now I guess.

I’m not sure if this really fits the flair but I wanted to throw this out there in case anyone else wanted to try it. Back when I used to wake up to cluster headaches repeatedly, I would run to the kitchen and grab a frosted sugar cookie (yes, I know🫠) and a cup of coffee and consume them as fast as possible. Majority of the time, the cluster headaches went away. Let me know if you try this, I’d love to know the science behind it.

Hello all,

I’ve been dealing with what I BELIEVE to be cluster head aches for years now. I think since about 2019. To share the symptoms, I will feel a slight pain in my left temple, then it will become more severe and move to my left back molars, then finally move up to an excruciating pain behind my left eye.

My left eyelid will droop, I become extremely sensitive to light, and my nose becomes slightly runny. This will happen everyday for about 2-3 weeks maybe a month. For the longest time it came in eras of about 6 months. I just recently had remission of at least 2 years. I had honestly completely forgotten about them until I was driving back home yesterday. I think the trigger here is usually changing of seasons, we are also getting hit with constant rain for the entire week.

With all these being said, what have yall done for relief and or treatment? I’m tired of just waiting this out everytime. I currently just take otc pain meds and rub peppermint oil on my temples. Which helps a decent bit.