Cluster Headache FAQs (cont.)
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- What are cluster headaches?
- How dangerous are cluster headaches?
- What causes cluster headaches?
- What are the symptoms of cluster headaches?
- Who gets cluster headaches?
- Should a person with cluster headaches see a doctor?
- What tests are done for people with cluster headaches?
- How are cluster headaches treated?
- What can be done to prevent cluster headaches?
- Will cluster headaches eventually go away on their own?
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How dangerous are cluster headaches?
Despite the intense pain of cluster headaches, they are not life threatening. They are harmful to a person’s quality of life, however, and sometimes induce depression and/or anxiety disorders, especially if the headaches are uncontrolled by medication or other therapies. Doctors conduct thorough examinations of persons with cluster headaches in order to rule out truly life-threatening causes of headache like tumors or subarachnoid hemorrhages (bleeding in the membranes of the brain).
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Cluster headache (CH) is an idiopathic syndrome consisting of recurrent brief attacks of sudden, severe, unilateral periorbital pain.
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