Headaches & Migraines

3. Cluster Headaches
Cluster headaches begin to occur in mid life (usually between the
ages of 20 and 45), and the pain is described as severe and
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
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excruciating. This time, however, 80% of sufferers are men and the
headaches are felt a cluster at a time, usually lasting weeks to months
once or twice a year. For many, the pain lasts from half an hour to an
hour.
Victims of cluster headaches exhibit symptoms like a flushed
face, teary eyes, stuffed or runny nose.
Less common headaches include post-traumatic headaches
(resulting from injuries sustained in an accident; injuries involving the
head or neck); sinus headaches (people believe they have sinus
headaches but are actually suffering from tension headaches or
migraines); and TMJ headaches (TMJ stands for temporomandibular
jaw syndrome) which causes facial pain and sometimes a headache as
well. TMJ sufferers are actually experiencing chronic tension
headaches or migraines, according to Robbins and Lang; it is the TMJ
that aggravates the pre-existing migraine or tension headache
problem.5
Exercise and sexual headaches and allergy headaches fall under
the rare type of headaches; most of them are harmless, although a
few of them can be serious.
5 Ibid.
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