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Posted by jeff glickman on May 02, 1999 at 17:03:24:

Cluster headache comes.
I moan with ferocity.
Tears drip from my eye.

A murder of crows
pecks my trigeminal nerve.
Eye clutching anguish

I scream at lungs’ height
I smash the world with both fists
Cry me a river

Overpowering.
What direct experience!
Little sleep is had

The pain’s quality:
skin held to a hot griddle.
Intolerable

The pain’s quality:
red hot ice pick through the eye.
Debilitating.

Others can’t relate.
Who knows this pain’s quality?
Clusterheads only

Non-pulsating pain
usurps my priorities.
Living life on hold

Find a way to deal.
Enduring such pain is hard.
Maybe suicide

The beast works at night
repeating attacks of pain.
I crave the big sleep

Unfortunates bear
daily multiple attacks.
The demon rests not

Cluster headache is
relentless domination.
Will dies over time

Cluster sufferers -
my pain saturated kin.
Lucky lot are we

Health care insurers,
The medical industry.
Overdue for change

Find some empathy.
anesthesiologist -
He knows acute pain

Manage the mayhem.
Can meds affect this horror?
Relief’s elusive

Impede the cycle:
Lithium, verapamil ...
Build a layer cake

Once more awakened.
Oh no! Not another one!
Hold panic at bay

Spray gulp inject breathe:
How can I abort the beast?
Costly options

Go for the needle?
Such an easy thing to do.
How often? What cost?

Though Imitrex rules,
a culprit this cure may be.
Rebound headache next

The mask muzzles me.
Hear the reassuring hiss.
Inhale hungrily

Pure oxygen cures
vascular vulgarity.
A fact - not hot air

My head is now clear
There is clear sailing ahead
Now then, where was I?


This became an outlet for venting emotional and
psychological baggage related to my CH-induced
suffering. It has been therapeutic for me. Think
I’ll try limericks next. :^)



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