1% Thursday: Outside the Lines
This week: Take the time to learn about a different type of headache.
I’m blessed with a very unusual point of view. Because of this site, I don’t just focus on my own symptoms, and my own condition, but a wide variety of conditions and diseases that are related to headache.
A few weeks ago, I was researching a rare type of migraine. I was reading through some technical medical information that one would never choose to read on a rainy night with a hot cup of cocoa, unless you had a very good reason.
Suddenly, I noticed something – a connection with a disorder that another member of my family has – this disorder possibly connected with my migraine disease.
It’s a long shot, but that little bit of information in a rare medical text might just tell me something about my disease that will bring me a whole lot closer to understanding what’s going on.
So for the sake of finding those connections, and for the sake of looking outward and discovering the struggles of other people – I challenge you to learn about another type of headache or migraine today. Here are some possible places to start:
- Migraine without headache
- Sinus headache
- Abdominal migraine
- Retinal migraine
- Familial hemiplegic migraine
- Headache in cerebral venous thrombosis
- Lupus headache
- Cluster vs Migraine
- A few more…
What is 1% Thursday?
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Every Thursday at Headache and Migraine News (weather permitting) we’ll talk about one measurable, practical thing we can do to make our lives just 1% better. Usually it will be something very easy, sometimes it will be a challenge. Let us know if you try it, or share an idea of your own – and maybe a year from now we’ll see that things have really changed for the better!
28 January 2010 @ 6:47 pm
Just adding the IHS description of my type of primary headache:
Hemicrania Continua
The International Headache Society (IHS) is the world’s membership organisation for all whose professional commitment, whatever their discipline, is to helping people whose lives are affected by headache disorders.
http://ihs-classification.org/en/02_klassifikation/02_teil1/04.07.00_other.html
4. OTHER PRIMARY HEADACHES
4.7. Hemicrania continua
IHS Diagnosis ICD-10
4.7 Hemicrania continua G44.80
Description:
Persistent strictly unilateral headache responsive to indomethacin.
Diagnostic criteria:
A.Headache for >3 months fulfilling criteria B-D
B.All of the following characteristics:
1.unilateral pain without side-shift
2.daily and continuous, without pain-free periods
3.moderate intensity, but with exacerbations of severe pain
C.At least one of the following autonomic features occurs during exacerbations and ipsilateral to the side of pain:
1.conjunctival injection and/or lacrimation
2.nasal congestion and/or rhinorrhoea
3.ptosis and/or miosis
D.Complete response to therapeutic doses of indomethacin
E.Not attributed to another disorder1
Note:
1.History and physical and neurological examinations do not suggest any of the disorders listed in groups 5-12, or history and/or physical and/or neurological examinations do suggest such disorder but it is ruled out by appropriate investigations, or such disorder is present but headache does not occur for the first time in close temporal relation to the disorder
Comment:
Hemicrania continua is usually unremitting, but rare cases of remission are reported. Whether this headache type can be subdivided according to length of history and persistence is yet to be determined.
29 January 2010 @ 7:09 am
Thanks for sharing. We’ve talked about hemicrania continua more than once – both in HeadWay and here in the blog. Be sure to check out Popular ways to misdiagnose Hemicrania Continua.