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Where Does Dizziness And Cluster Headaches Come From?
- Headaches: Cluster - Medications
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Treatment for Acute Attacks
Oxygen Therapy
Breathing pure oxygen (by face mask, for 15 minutes or less) is one of the most effective and safest treatments for cluster headache attacks. It is often the first choice treatment. Inhalation of oxygen raises blood oxygen levels, therefore relaxing narrowed blood vessels.
Triptans
Triptans are drugs that are usually used to treat migraine headaches. They can also help stop a cluster attack. An Injection of sumatriptan (Imitrex) is the standard triptan...
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Is there anything I can do to prevent a cluster headache? Anything to...
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Treatment Options for Cluster Headaches
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Cluster Headache
Goals of Treatment for Cluster HeadachesThe goals of treatment for cluster headache include: Control of pain in acute attacks Prevention of... Read more »
Headaches: Cluster: Cluster Headaches
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Cluster HeadachesCluster headaches are among the most painful, and least common, of all headaches. The pain can be so excruciating that they are... Read more »
Headaches: Cluster: Managing Cluster Headaches
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Many patients report a delay of 1 - 6 years in the diagnosis of their cluster headaches. Migraine-like symptoms (light and sound sensitivity, aura,... Read more »
Oxygen may ease cluster headaches
According to one reader of The People's Pharmacy, the use of a breathing mask and straight oxygen for a few minutes has helped ease his "suicide... Read more »
Oxygen Therapy Can Ease Cluster Headaches
Debilitating cluster headaches--often called "suicide headaches" by sufferers--can be eased by giving patients oxygen through a mask at the first... Read more »
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