Tag: Cluster Headache

So, my cluster started eight days ago, and I’ve had two pain free days and one double attack. Almost all attacks have come between six and eight o’clock in the morning, giving me a 75% chance of waking up with one of these fucking things. As you might expect it means my sleep is less than relaxed and even on days where I don’t get an attack I wake up tired.

People always say the same thing; “just try to relax.” And it’s one thing if you don’t know better, but I swear, if one more person that should know better suggests relaxing on order to deal with or prevent the anxiety, I might do something terrible.

Back to my scheduled mantra: life is beautiful, life is beautiful, life is beautiful, life is beautiful, life is beautiful.

Ah, sod it.

~20 minute K8, starting at a little before 07:00. Woke up because I thought I was crying in my sleep but it turned out to be my right eye tearing badly.

While many attacks all group together early in the morning, I still don’t have the metronomic attacks that a lot of others describe.

Had a 30 minute, K7 attack starting at 06:30.

It started at 06:50 and woke me up. There wasn’t much tearing but my nose was runny. It lasted about 45 to 50 minutes, starting at a K6 and ramped up to a K8 after 30 minutes or so.

I had a pain free day today, which was good. The only downside of having a pain free day is that all throughout the day I’m feeling tense and I’m dreading what feels like the inevitable. By the end of my work day, I felt secure enough to go training, which was good. Unfortunately I didn’t have that much energy, but I felt good for coming out the other end of the training. I came home, ate clean (a whole broccoli and a bunch of celery I still had laying around) and I’m planning on going to sleep early. Hopefully I’ll be able to extend my pain free streak.