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What do you understand about cluster headaches?
Patient David Ball says, thanks to Dr Matharu and the Queen Square team, he now understands the causes of his cluster headaches, and how to cope with them, a lot more
Transcript
A lot more than I did, thanks to Dr. Matharu and Queen Square and the people here, really. We live in an age of the internet, which is a double edged sword. While it's a blessing, it's also a curse. I went through everything and thought I had got brain cancer, brain tumours, all sorts of things. So that in itself was very difficult to kind of cope with and deal with. Then to come to Queen Square and have to be explained what my symptoms were, how it affected me, what they thought caused it, just made me feel like I could cope a little bit better. So I have got a long way to go. I've only been diagnosed for a year now. So there's a lot of work, and a lot of research, and a lot of reading I need to do. But I understand a little bit more now of what it is and how I can cope on a day to day basis with it.