after suffering clusters for almost 23 years a week ago a dr diagnosed my symptoms it is such a releif to know i am not dying of a brain tumor then again it is also very scary to know i will never be free from the beast and he may get worse i am episodic and my first attack was when i was about 18 i thought i was dying went to the doctor and he gave me beta blockers telling me i had a migraine (i couldn't even tell you what a migraine was still couldn't i've only ever had clusters some times i can go years without an attack but then i can only go a few months i'm 2 weeks into an attack but at least this time i have some medication that works i must ride the beast for 2 days in a week to keep my meds effective but at least i get some releif for the majority of the week  thank you go's to the doctor who after telling him my syptoms diagnosed straight away thank you thank you thank you my thoughts are with all of you haunted by the beast

Hi Tyler and welcome

Bit confused by one thing you say:

tyler1799 wrote on Feb 8^th, 2013 at 3:05pm:


I've not heard of this before. What medications do you take and in what doses?

Have you a preventive, something like verapamil, lithium or topomax, to prevent CHs happening?

And have you an abortive, like oxygen and imitrex injections to kill off a CH when you get one?

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