‘Why don’t you just take some paracetamol?’ BECAUSE IT’S NOT
A HEADACHE!
Yes I know it’s called cluster headache, but it truly is not
a headache in anyway that anyone would understand unless they have lived
through one. They used to be called suicide headaches, and believe me the word
suicide is far more appropriate that the word headache. I can guarantee that at
least half the people reading this have just thought, she’s a bit of a drama
queen /hypochondriac, I bet at least a quarter have just thought ‘but it’s just
a headache’.
I can’t describe the pain to you. We have tried, time and
again to describe it. To our friends, our family, our employers and colleague’s,
to our doctors . We try, but you can’t. The best I have come up with is a drill
going through my head just above my eye.
An artist’s impression of the pain we experience.
I wouldn't wish this pain on anyone... but I do wish people knew what it felt like!!
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