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Migraine localization chart, which affects you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Sourcerer to c/migraine

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It gives me a headache just looking at this chart. If it's close to true then that means I typically get migraines, cluster headaches, and sinus headaches depending on many environmental factors changing.

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[–] 18107 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually get cluster headaches. It's almost always behind one eye (not both), but seems random as to which one.

I just managed to sleep off a migraine (with the help of Eletriptan) so I'm feeling great, but it's 11pm and I'm not sure what to do now. I guess I'll browse Lemmy 'til I fall asleep again.

[–] The_Sourcerer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your face get red near the eyes when you get a cluster headache? I see some descriptions mentioning a redness and swelling.

[–] 18107 2 points 1 year ago

No, nothing visible.

[–] Helixa 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I get a mixture too, just got the ice pick treated successfully with indometican but think it was the cause of bad chest pain yesterday so holding off until I can see my doctor. Just waiting for it to wear off and those headaches to come back doh.

[–] The_Sourcerer 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah sometimes medication is just a symptoms trade-off. Which pain do you prefer and which one is short term effects vs. long term. So much fun right?

[–] bcbane 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this chart is accurate what I have called migraines my whole life are actually cluster headaches. I’ve always described them to my wife like an icepick behind my right eye

[–] The_Sourcerer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funnily enough I had the same assumption and was surprised that they are called Cluster headaches. I also get a similar localized headache, like the Cluster one, of that same size on the back of the head just above the neck and to the left... but I don't see that on the chart.

[–] Helixa 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve had all the symptoms of cluster headaches, but I don’t have the telltale timing pattern that goes with them so don’t think it’s them. But I have it all, pain behind the eye, watery eye, flushed face, etc. Here’s some more info https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/headache/cluster-headaches

[–] The_Sourcerer 1 points 1 year ago

I guess cluster headaches only happen behind the eye then? I also never had the sweating/flushed face or dropping eye symptoms. I must have some other headache type that is similarly super localized like a cluster headache.