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Cluster headache, the most severe of headache conditions, can be effectively treated when a proper diagnosis is made. The diagnosis matters because many of the medications used for migraine are ineffective for cluster headache. Even experienced physicians can misdiagnose cluster headache if they don't ask all the right questions. For this reason, a well-informed patient who correctly identifies the tell-tale symptoms of cluster headache can make an important contribution to his or her own care.

Neurologists and headache experts like to classify things, and when it comes to headache there is a lot to classify. Headache can be a symptom of many different diseases and disorders, in addition to being a disorder itself. All told, there are over 300 types and causes of headache identified! That is a much longer list of possible diagnoses to be considered than exist for most diseases or disorders in the many areas of medicine.

How bad are your headaches? When a migraine strikes, it may seem like the worst pain in the world and you would do anything to stop it. Once the attack is over, you may push the problem out of your mind, hoping you’ve had your last horrible migraine and your life will never again be turned upside down by pain.

You may say, "I know what causes my headaches. Staying up late or drinking too much coffee will bring on a headache every time." But a trigger is not the same as a cause. Aged cheese, cigarette smoke, alcohol, excessive caffeine, bright sunlight, disrupted sleep patterns, and many other factors can trigger headaches in some migraine- or headache-prone patients. However, even a known trigger does not always lead to a headache. Therefore, these factors cannot be said to be a cause of headache the way a particular virus is the cause of a head cold or flu. Instead, the nervous system of the headache sufferer is somehow predisposed to respond to these triggers and other stresses with a series of biochemical changes that result in the pain and other symptoms of headache.