What the numbers say...

Just a little food for thought... not all stats are current as we are not the subject of much research, but they still tell a story

0.1%   of the population have cluster headaches

21% of patients are given the correct diagnosis at their 1^st appointment

5 years is the average time between onset of symptoms and diagnosis

10-15% of Cluster headache patients are chronic suffers

6 men to each woman who are living with cluster headaches

4 hours of undergraduate medical education is given to ALL headache disorders (worldwide average)

22%-55% of chronic suffers report suicidal ideation (depending on what research you look at).

100% oxygen at a high flow rate is needed to treat Cluster headache attacks

20% of Cluster headache sufferers in the US reported losing a job as a result of their Cluster headache.

8% of American cluster headache suffers are unemployed or on disability.

0.004% of hospital appointments in England (485) were for cluster headaches. This is 12 years old.