An Update on Cluster Headache Treatment Options

Dr. Tesha Monteith talks with Dr. Matthew Robbins about guidelines for cluster headaches, an update on treatment opinions, and so much more.

Read the related article mentioned in JAMA Neurology.

[rickyj]

3 ppl have killed them self in my family due to cluster headache suffered 15 yrs finally oxegen has helped so much im a new man new life high flow oxegen works very well almost instant relief dont give up high flow oxegen works and safe

[michaelsledge]

Imitrex, Excedrin, and Tylenol 500mg is my preferred cocktail. I get mine during winter and they come EVERYDAY with my left eye drooping and tearing along with my left nostril being congested. I get restless and hot showers usually help soothe. All this started in 2016 😫

[matthewfunk]

I was episodic for 10 years, last year I went chronic. So I am grateful for any efforts being made or cluster sufferers.

[Ian-kmks]

I suffer from these cluster headaches and its the worst pain I have every felt

[jameshaggard]

I’ve been having episodes for more than 10 years. People don’t understand the amount of pain they cause. It’s debilitating. Mine always follow the changing seasons. I recently went around two years without a cycle and then out of nowhere, this year, I’m having another bad cycle.

Mine come on at the end of the day when I stop being active. If I stay going, they tend to be mild or not come on at all. It’s soooo frustrating. The dread of them coming on just sucks. It’s life altering.

[ponzo]

Such a desperate affliction. We need so much more research. With that being said I do appreciate the awareness and progress since my first one in 1985 when I was seen as a drug seeker and told to take Tylenol. Psilocybin is hopeful ❤

[praveenyada]

Very difficult to treat, a helpful summary

[bettebrohel]

I read that the FDA approved Emgality for cluster headaches.

[helenashikongo]

Cluster headche is very very painful i can tell i and my daughter have this but my daughter is 11years but suffer for this cluster headche since she was 7years.

[icepopdudes]

when I was taking Topamax my headaches went away for years. I still get them now and im 45 yrs old. my own findings is these headaches are affiliated with breathing and oxygen.

[jasonmccracken]

I suffer from cluster headaches can you please help me I am running out of hope

[kalbury]

My heart rate and blood pressure was in the toilet on the heart meds
The block on the occipital did not work I had cluster 20 min later
I need a Dr here that would see me during my clusters

[reginaldklewis]

😢 mines seem seasonal since around 16 - 17 years old im 35 now the migraine medicine was the wrong option because the eye and nasal issue is dead on no longer than 3 hour at a time. Ill be in talks with my doctors immediately, because these have been so life absorbing... I never thought youtube university had the answers cuz google didnt all these years

[ColleenHoulihan-dz]

Mine are everyday 2-7 times a day. Nothing has worked, and no Dr' will see me. I haven't had a dr. Fur 4 yrs. I'm not very nice some days

[bradcalhoun]

I've been diagnosed 15yrs ago with cluster tic syndrome by Dr Steven Graf Radford at cedar Sinai in la. It started right after FESS sinus surgery in 2001. Is there any new treatment for CTS? THANKS BRAD

[carolmatt]

I am chronic and take a cocktail of Verapamil, Topamax and Lithium. If I go without 2 or 3 doses, a cluster begins. That being said, I get hit in spring and fall with a terrible period of headaches and see my pain manager for an Ocipital Nerve Block injection; will be good for about 6-9 months, usually. BTW, verapamil alone does not help me.

[darrink]

The doctor won’t help me about my cluster headaches who do I go see???

[MrMohamedtarik]

Emgality is amazing for cluster headaches

[maciejziara]

Plz can You donate me whit some small amunts. I have link in my Youtube accont. Im sick forme 15 years and it's not bether. 9 months it's my shorts cluster. 5-6 time.a day is standard. Each atakt 40 to 90 min.... oxygen medical marichuana and sometimes inecjt frome imigram. All not refunded in my country 😢😢😢

[ShankFinatra]

Very informative it just reinforced what I already knew. CH is such a black hole. The brain is just beyond human comprehension. 🧩