New Blog 1: Cluster Headaches

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Cluster Headaches

The location and type of pain has sometimes been compared to a "brain-freeze" headache caused from rapidly drinking or eating something very cold, also known as an "Ice Cream Headache,"; this analogy is limited, but may offer some insight into the cluster headache experience. Persons who have experienced both cluster headaches and other painful conditions (childbirth, migraines) report that the pain of cluster headaches is far worse, sometimes 100 times more severe than a migraine.^[2] The pain has been compared to being stabbed repeatedly in the eye with an ice pick^[3] or hot poker. ^[4] It has been reported as the most severe pain known to medical science, worse than amputation without anesthetics.^{[citation needed]}