I just cant understand what is the point in comparing, be it CH with Migraines ( or for that matter to any thing).

In any case, be it CH, Child birth, Migraines, or what ever, any of the situations one suffers, hurts, so dose it makes a deference? is trying to quantify pain / suffering make one feel better, or feel supreme over the other?

I am sorry I fail to understand what is the point of this quantifying / comparing, knowing the pain level or suffering level will not make it go away, or make one feel better…….for no one….

Michael

I think Wendy and Barb got it just about right. I have only had migraines when I was doing a lot of Trex and they might not have been migraines at all who knows. I know someone who suffers from them and I use that as a comparison. Migraines to me are a K5 at worst pain level but can last for up to two days with horrible light and sound sensitivity, and with (chucking cookies) stomach rumbling. You don’t need the O2 but the waste basket is a must.

Migraines can put you down for the count and I usually take a 100mg trex pill, 10mg amitriptyline, vicodin, and then nap them off. This is the best I can do in quantifying migraines. As a K10 (K8 on lithium) chronic CH sufferer I can say without a doubt that there is no comparison and I mean that sincerely.

Off to the O2 I go,.......

Roland.

I've been diagnosed with both, though sometimes I wonder if my "migraines" were actually always shadows. Migraines are typically a Kip 3-4 to me and may get as bad as a 6. But it's a rather apples-to-oranges thing. The worst pain you can imagine is way different before you have a cluster headache. Migraines last for months sometimes, they leave you completely wiped out and depressed, and I've heard that people with migraines have lower pain tolerances than the average person, so the pain that we would feel as mild they feel as excruciating.

I usually describe the pain using the amputation without anesthesia analogy. It tends to shut people up who are annoying me with an "I have migraines too!" business. I should probably have more sympathy, but I usually don't.