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  1. Nora MacIsaac
    1 June 2011 @ 8:07 pm

    For years I have and had suffered with both migraines and with cluster migraines. I became very intimately knowledgeable on the differing pain and symptoms both offered. Well, truthfully, the latter only until I saw a neurologist who looked up from the file in front of him and said “You do not have cluster migraines.” “Who told you you did?” I answered that my family physician and ER doctors had diagnosed them. He shook his head and said simply “Only men get clusters.” Just like that I supposedly did not have them anymore. If only it could be that easy.

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  2. Kathy Hatfield
    2 June 2011 @ 8:56 am

    I’ve suffered for years with both clusters and migraines. I would use the term cluster migraine to describe them to someone unfamiliar with the headache terminology because to call clusters “headaches” is to minimize the experience and the debilitating and excruciating pain. It’s similar to calling the Grand Canyon a hole in the ground. It’s still not close to describing what they are, but at least it gives someone a better frame of reference for them than “headache,” which is a two-aspirin-and-ignore-it problem. Telling a coworker or your boss you have a cluster headache doesn’t mean anything to them. Even the nurse where I work doesn’t understand a cluster means I can’t just drive home.

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  3. Nikki
    3 June 2011 @ 1:03 am

    I agree totally. Although it would be accurate to say I have a cluster Of migraines… as in they cluster together into a status migraine. But yeah we don’t need the confusion in terms.

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  4. Nancy Leonard
    31 July 2014 @ 2:57 am

    I’ve bee in a cluster of migraines for several weeks. I’m taking 2-4 esgic plus a day and it’s beginning to be really scary. I’m 65 and the migraines are only becoming more frequent.

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