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It does work, sometimes!
Feb 22^nd, 2012 at 6:59pm

About a year ago, I was talking to a member of another forum that I frequent. He was describing his headaches to me and telling me how frustrated he was because nothing helped. He is in the UK and had been diagnosed with migraines. Well, I knew damned well that what he was having was NOT migraines and they sounded a whole lot like clusters.

I gave him all the info he needed to fight his battle with. Well, just got this pm from him.

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Afternoon,

Dunno if you recall, but back in July 2008 you suggested that I was suffering not from migraine but from Cluster Headaches. And you were extremely helpful at the time, but unfortunately no medical professional agreed with you.

Just wanted to drop you a note to say that best part of 4 years, 4 GPs and 2 neurologists (not forgetting 3 cluster bouts and several dozen suma/nara/triptan tablets - costing the NHS £5 a pill and doing fuck all for me) later, as of Tuesday afternoon somebody finally agrees with you.

And in my book, that makes you my new favourite person.

Point is, if you hadn't PM'd me back then, I'd still be going along with their "oh it's only migraine, get over it, nobody can have a headache *that* painful, it must be all in your head."

I slept well last night for the first time since the first weekend in December.

Thank You

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