Another piece of the puzzle fell in place for me yesterday, as I watched a podcast of Dr. Richard Lipton, professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explaining the difference between Migraine & headache. Thanks to Marijke Durning, R.N. of Help My Hurt for posting the podcast in The Difference between Migraine and Headache. I recommend the podcast as a general explanation of...

Clinical correspondence in the latest Cephalalgia journal reports the presence of 'cutaneous allodynia' in two cluster headache patients. What is cutaneous allodynia? Cutaneous (relating to or affecting the skin) allodynia (is a painful response to a normally non painful stimulus) so in this case there is a heightened, painful sensitivity to touch. This increased sensitivity to touch,...

Did you know that about one in twenty people suffers from chronic daily headache? And the number of people who suffer from headaches on a regular basis is much bigger, and everybody has had a headache once in a while. Sadly, people who suffer from chronic daily headache have their daily lives seriously affected by this disease. Types of Daily Headaches There are two types of chronic daily...

Migraine is a complex condition which is triggered by different things in different people. Additionally, the actual symptoms suffered by different people are usually fairly unique to them too. Migraine is commonly described by people as a special kind of recurring headache where the headache is severe and usually linked to other symptoms such as feeling sick (nausea), being sick (vomiting),...

Despite the fact that they are fairly unusual cluster headaches are classed as being amongst the most painful conditions that you can experience. Luckily they are fairly rare and, whilst other often painful headaches such as migraines strike about ten percent of the population, under one in three hundred people suffer from cluster headaches. The majority of people describe cluster headaches as...