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Dr Manjit Matharu
Queen Square Private Healthcare
What are cluster headaches?
Dr Manjit Matharu, a Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square, explains cluster headaches are headaches that can occur upto 8 times a day but only one side of the head although they can alternate sides. The pain is described as being worse than childbirth and is usually accompanied by blocked nose, eye watering and facial sweating and redness.
Transcript
Cluster headache is an excruciatingly painful disorder. Patients who have cluster headaches will say that they get one-sided headache. The headaches can change sides from attack to attack, but at any one time, the attack is only on one side. These attacks can occur anywhere up to eight times a day, and each attack can last up to three hours. The pain is excruciating. And to put this into context, women who have been through a childbirth will often state that the pain of cluster headache is much worse than that of going through childbirth. These headaches are defined as being accompanied by what we call autonomic symptoms. These are symptoms that you get on the face, such as your eye watering or going red, your nose becoming blocked or runny, getting facial redness or facial sweating.
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