I Have Cluster Headaches
Not full blown episodes, just minisodes or mild episodes. I assume so because it lines up perfectly with how cluster headaches are described. Not so much with tension headaches, sinus headaches, or migraines. Which all I experience on occasion besides maybe sinus headaches. I've had minisodes the past few days and I seem irritated by things MUCH easier. That and much more irritated by what normally irritates me.
I've had minisodes throughout my life here and there, or maybe it first appeared my teens or late teens. I don't have the best memory. I have looked into it and there are cases reported of things that align perfectly with cluster headaches besides the lack of severity in pain. The only thing separating it. It's in and around my left eye, I get the eye tearing, it feels exactly as a headache is described in the type of pain and how it's felt (besides intensity). I've also had it spread to my left cheek before. Not sensitive to sound or light and movement can actually help a bit, unlike migraines. Usually occurs at the same time day after day for some amount of days and usually between 45 minutes and 2 hours.
I think I'm so used to migraines that because it's the closest thing to mild cluster headaches at least to me that it caused me to mentally avoid sound and bright light as well as movement (the dizzy pain/ache you from it sometimes with migraines, like when getting up or sitting down). I stopped avoiding movement, sounds, and light and realized it made no difference (besides movement helping a bit, probably partly just to help get your mind off of it or try).
I worry that I will get full blown episodes at some point though. I know it's the rarest form of headache, but it feels much more likely because I get these mild episodes sometimes. I know it's one of the worst pains one can experience in life (above child birth by at least one woman's account I remember and them having the nickname "suicide headaches") because I looked into it several years ago, I think before I even had these minisodes. I don't know anyone with them and don't remember why I looked into it though.
I've had minisodes throughout my life here and there, or maybe it first appeared my teens or late teens. I don't have the best memory. I have looked into it and there are cases reported of things that align perfectly with cluster headaches besides the lack of severity in pain. The only thing separating it. It's in and around my left eye, I get the eye tearing, it feels exactly as a headache is described in the type of pain and how it's felt (besides intensity). I've also had it spread to my left cheek before. Not sensitive to sound or light and movement can actually help a bit, unlike migraines. Usually occurs at the same time day after day for some amount of days and usually between 45 minutes and 2 hours.
I think I'm so used to migraines that because it's the closest thing to mild cluster headaches at least to me that it caused me to mentally avoid sound and bright light as well as movement (the dizzy pain/ache you from it sometimes with migraines, like when getting up or sitting down). I stopped avoiding movement, sounds, and light and realized it made no difference (besides movement helping a bit, probably partly just to help get your mind off of it or try).
I worry that I will get full blown episodes at some point though. I know it's the rarest form of headache, but it feels much more likely because I get these mild episodes sometimes. I know it's one of the worst pains one can experience in life (above child birth by at least one woman's account I remember and them having the nickname "suicide headaches") because I looked into it several years ago, I think before I even had these minisodes. I don't know anyone with them and don't remember why I looked into it though.
