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What impact did your cluster headaches have on your quaity of life?
Queen Square patient David Ball explains the debilitating impact cluster headaches had on his life
Transcript
So I'm an episodic cluster headaches sufferer, which means I get them for one month, four to six weeks, a year and it stops your life. You can't do anything there. I suffer with them, I would have them in the morning first thing when I woke up, which meant that the rest of my day was the hardest thing I've ever had to work through. Working, I'm lucky, I work from home. So I could manage my situation very well. But for people who don't work at home and have to go and live a normal life and have a normal job, I can't imagine what that's like. It's very disruptive.