By this point I can safely say that night clubs with its bright lights and alcohol may be one of the triggers for this. Disturbed sleep cycle may be another one. In this case, both of these happened and thus another episode was triggered. These seem to come once per month or month and a half, which is interesting. Are these linked to hormonal cycles?
Male, 26 yo.


After going to bed at around 12 o'clock in the night, I woke up after a few hours. This irritated me because I couldn't get sleep for some reason, so I decided to stay awake for a few hours. Returned to sleep at 6 o'clock in the morning. Wake up again after 7 hours, at 1 o'clock. The episode had started. Be in mind that I had taken only a few beers and didn't have a hangover.

The symptoms differ from time to time. Sometimes it's accompanied with dizziness, hot and cold waves and nausea (vomiting is rare if almost nonexistent though). On some rare occasions the pain is this weird ghost pain at your skin (on the right side of the body once again). Its' really hard to describe.

But there's always the following similarities:

- The pain resides from behind the eye and continues to the rest of the body
- It's always one sided
- Sometime the pain stops to the neck or the shoulder, at other times it continues all the way to the feet


I woke up knowing that the episode is going on. "It was about time", I thought. The pain was this sharp pain behind your eye, like there was a small glass shard stuck there. It made your eye watery. My other jaw muscle seemed to be in a lockdown. Not paralyzed, but it was quite sore. It also felt like there was this rope going from behind my eye, through my shoulder, all the way to the feet, and someone was pulling the rope.

I grabbed my Panacod and ibuprofein and gave it a go. (I do have Sumatriptan, but Panacod seems to always have a helping effect. I fear if Sumatriptan wouldn't help and that's why I've always picked the Panacod option. I haven't yet tried Sumatriptan at all.).

I waited for half an hour. No effect.
"Damnit. This isn't even the worst episode I've had."
I decided to go for a walk, get my thought elsewhere from the pain. While I was at it, I decided to grab some Chinese food. By an hour/an hour and a half after waking up, the pills started to finally work. Now there's no longer pain but the fatique has settled in. Now it's evening and the episode is gone, but the fatique still remains. I find studying incredibly hard due to tiredness.
Perhaps I'll take it easy tonight.


Thanks for hearing me out. Any comments are welcome.

Doctor's diagnose for my condition was the common migraine and nothing else. I didn't even get MRI scans or anything.

They don't sound like cluster headaches to me! Best go check in with a headache specialist for a proper diagnosis.

Cheers Hoppy

To me it doesn't sound like cluster headache or migraine. I'm not a doctor and could be wrong. Please try to find a neurologist that specializes in headaches.