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Cluster Headaches: Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment
April 23, 2020
Symptom Guides > Headaches > Cluster Headaches: Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment

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Dr. Chris Bodle
Dr. Bodle is a board certified emergency medicine physician. He received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Emory University. In addition to K Health, he currently works as an Emergency Medicine physician in an Urban, Level 1 Trauma Center in the south east.
If you suffer from pain in your head, face, or neck, you are not alone. Headache disorders, including migraines, tension headaches, medication-overuse headaches, and cluster headaches, are some of the most common ailments of the nervous system. They affect nearly half of the world’s adult population every year. Although all headache disorders can be painful and debilitating, each type affects people differently.
Cluster headaches are a painful condition in which patients experience severe headaches in cycles, or “clusters,” followed by pain-free periods. The headaches can occur up to eight times a day, and cycles can last weeks or months before pain-free periods begin. Cluster headaches are considered one of the most painful of all primary headache disorders, though the condition is fairly rare, affecting fewer than one in 1,000 adults worldwide.
Although cluster headache symptoms are extremely uncomfortable, they are not life-threatening and can be treated. Patients on a proper cluster headache treatment plan often find their pain and cluster frequency significantly and sometimes drastically, reduced.
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“Cluster headaches are a painful condition in which patients experience severe headaches in cycles, or “clusters,” followed by pain-free periods.”
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by
Dr. Chris Bodle
Dr. Bodle is a board certified emergency medicine physician. He received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Emory University. In addition to K Health, he currently works as an Emergency Medicine physician in an Urban, Level 1 Trauma Center in the south east.
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