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a sharp dagger-like pain in my right eye and under the brow bone. The whole thing lasts about three hours. A CT scan of my sinuses was clear.
Is this description consistent with cluster headaches?
Cluster headaches usually present with one-sided tearing, drooping eyelid and redness in the affected eye. The typical cluster headache lasts 15 minutes to two hours and does not cross from one eye to the other. Due to the severe pain, patients prefer to stand up and walk, or rock back and forth. This contrasts with migraine, in which patients prefer to lie
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Although people with cluster headache
FEEL THE BURN do not always manifest typical textbook symptoms,
Every afternoon like clockwork, I experience a burning sensation that begins at the right side of my and not a cluster headache. If a neurological workup
there is a possibility you may have a migraine variant
forehead and crosses to the left side. It surrounds and CT or MRI scans of the brain are negative, my eyebrows and eyelids. It’ s not too dissimilar it may be worth considering migraine-specific medications, such as topiramate, divalproex sodium or beta to the sensation of sunburn, but the best way to describe it would be tightness in the forehead. It blockers. If you can tolerate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, you may want to try a trial of indomethacin can cause my eyelids to burn and swell, and exacerbate my dry-eye problem. At times, I experience as well. George R. Nissan, DO, co-director, Diamond Headache Clinic, Chicago
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