hey my name is Sky, 21 years old and i need your help..
in may 2011 i was injured during my military service, a not very severe head\face\eye injury.
after a few days when i got out from the hospital to recover in my home i started to experience a pain that i could not handle, and i have a lot of experience with pain :o

nothing helped for a while and the DR that treated me said that everything is fine with me.
after about a month the pain just stopped, vanished! i was the happiest man on the plant and came back to the field...

but after two two months it struck me again - for three months, three times a day.

since then it is recurring, and on September 2012 a neurologist diagnosed me with CH..

I've been treated with verapmil, steroids, triptans, lidocaine. valproic acid and O2..
the best thing to effect me is imitrex injection but with a lot of side effects, like feeling heat waves, vomiting, tightness in my jaw and neck so the my Dr told me to use it less then 10 times a month.

and now for your help!
i need to get information about head trauma and CH, the army is paying my medical bills but i need to show that the CH could be as a result of the injury so they continue to pay my medical bills for as long as i need..

pubmed wasn't very helpful with that!
thank you in advace!!
Sky.

   

Years ago head injury was thought to be a source of Cluster. Recent research raises serious doubts about how often that's the case.

Suggest that you print out the following message and drop it on your doc. The isse outlined is often not recognized by docs (in good measure because so many receive little education/training in complex headache disorders---this includes neurologists.
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Link to: cluster-LIKE headache:

IN: "Medications, Treatments, Therapies --> "Important Topics" --> "Cluster-LIKE headache"
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And print out.....


Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2006 Apr;10(2):130-6. Links
Head trauma and cluster headache.Manzoni GC, Lambru G, Torelli P.
Headache Centre, Department of Neurology, University of Parma and University Centre for Adaptive Disorders and Headache, Via Gramsci, 14, 43100 Parma, Italy. giancamillo.manzoni@unipr.it

Post-traumatic cluster headache (CH) is a very rare occurrence. Only one such case has been verified in the literature thus far. On the other hand, a non-casual association is almost certain to exist between previous head trauma and future CH onset. Considering the generally long interval of time separating the two events, it is not easy to accurately explain the nature of the head trauma/CH relationship. Head trauma may damage extra- or intracranial peripheral or central nervous structures, hence predisposing to the future development of CH. However, there also is the possibility that previous head injuries may be more frequent among CH patients because of their lifestyle, which may leave them more exposed to the risk of traumatic events.

PMID: 16539866 [PubMed

My CHs started within days of a head injury, so there is a very close temporal connection at least. Although I've no idea how it can be proven to be connected.

Hey Sky,

Thank you for your Service and welcome to CH.com.  Check your PM inbox.  I've sent some additional information.

Regarding the incidence of cluster headache (CH) following head injury...  the following and attached pdf file link below may be helpful.

Headache. 1992 Nov;32(10):504-6.

Cluster headache following head injury: a case report and review of the literature.

Turkewitz LJ, Wirth O, Dawson GA, Casaly JS.
Source

Midwest Center for Head-Pain Management, Troy, Ohio 45373.

Abstract

A relation between head trauma and cluster headache is frequently described in the literature. The percentage of cluster patients with a history of head injury is approximately 16.5 when several large studies are reviewed. The present paper reports another case where there is close proximity between head injury and the onset of cluster headache. A review of the literature attempts to document the supposition that there is indeed a causal or precipitous role for head injury in cluster cephalgia pathogenesis.

This should help.

Take care and please keep us posted.

V/R, Batch

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