I suffer severe Cluster Tic Syndrome in the form of shooting "fireworks" type pain which is unpredictable and the most disconcerting part of my whole cluster experience ( 30 years now).
For my tic, I experience piercing pains that come into the head from various angles and you never know from where. Many come over the course of a half an hour causing you to physically try and move to avoid them as they "attack" like long pins being pushed thru the brain at various angles at lightning speed. The tic would then be followed by a classic cluster headache.
For years I had a great neuro who researched this rare phenomenon that affects only some cluster sufferers, but sadly this neuro passed away recently.
Are there any others here that expeience Cluster Tic Syndrome and how does it manifest itself with you?

Nope, never heard of it. Which means absolutely nothing.

i just say it hurts .  huh phil

MITYRARE wrote on Sep 24^th, 2008 at 4:39pm:


Yes I also suffered with these for over 30 years. They were at the least very similar.

For me they were very random though occuring many times a day  and did not foretell an attack. In fact they were most notable outside of a full on cycle.

Again for me they allmost allways occurred in the temple area same as the CH

I call them my bullet attacks as that is how they felt. Just as though I had been shot and the pain passed as quickly as a bullet. On occasion I felt I could here a snap in my head.
There were times the intensity could knock me to my knees.
Immediately following the whole side of my face would turn completely white for a short period and feel very flushed, within a minute all I could say was what the hell was that.

There has been similar mention of these here before by others.

Interesting to note that along with CH and silent attacks they have greatly diminished since treating with CB methods.

I have had these in the past and always refered to them as ice pick headaches.  I would feel a sharp "ice pick" stabbing pain in my temple that would last about a second or so.  Haven't had any in over a year and I never connected them to ch because I've had the ice pick headaches long before ch showed up.

Beth