How to Use cluster headache in a Sentence

cluster headache

noun
  • Justin Dolan, 30, of Belleville, New Jersey, has been living with cluster headaches for about 15 years.
    Susie East, CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • At the low point, early on, Joe McKay was getting cluster headaches every other day for an hour at a time.
    Jerry Carino, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • There's no cure for a cluster headache, and treatment is more complicated than a simple pill.
    Susie East, CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The cause is unknown, but cluster headaches may occur if something with the body’s biological clock is off, per the Mayo Clinic.
    Amy Marturana, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • But back in 1998, someone posted on an internet forum that LSD seemed to have negated his cluster headaches.
    Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024
  • The study also confirmed some key differences between migraines and cluster headaches.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Well, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And while cluster headaches commonly occur during the night, migraines usually come on during the day, the meta-analysis found.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Just like migraines have their own specific characteristics, so do other types of headaches, such as tension and cluster headaches.
    Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The medications currently used to treat cluster headaches include the heart and psychiatric issues.
    NBC News, 5 June 2019
  • Several types of headaches exist—such as migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches—and can occur for several reasons, from certain foods to not getting enough sleep.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Seizures, cluster headaches, evidence of stroke, lesions in the brain and loss of brain volume have also been found in various combinations in Cotard’s patients.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Doctors aren’t exactly sure what causes cluster headaches.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Also, cluster headaches generally aren’t triggered by certain factors, like stress or hormonal changes, the way tension headaches and migraines can be.
    Amy Marturana, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • People with cluster headaches had both higher cortisol levels and lower melatonin levels.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But while some headaches—like cluster headaches and tension headaches—can occur on their own without a specific reason, other headaches can be related to outside circumstances, like allergies.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • While some headaches—like cluster headaches and tension headaches—can occur on their own without a specific reason, other headaches can be related to outside circumstances, like allergies.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 9 May 2023
  • Certain medications can trigger cluster headaches, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The dispensary is based in Vancouver and claims to mail psilocybin microdoses to people with a documented medical need; Larsen lists anxiety, cluster headaches, and pain as conditions that can be treated with psilocybin.
    Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Sorting through the data helped the company identify its first clinical targets—migraines and cluster headaches—but also suggested future research directions.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
  • Advertisement Lynch himself used medical marijuana to help with cluster headaches.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Erythrocyte choline concentrations and cluster headache.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Current studies offered through Science 37’s website ask for participants who are willing to take medication to possibly treat cluster headaches or research how insulin treatments affect people of color who live with Type 2 diabetes.
    Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 5 June 2018
  • Noninvasive, handheld vagal nerve stimulators meant to ease cluster headaches and migraine have recently also gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration, although exactly how vagal nerve stimulation helps those conditions is unclear.
    Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2018
  • Currently, cluster headaches are commonly managed with medications such as lithium carbonate and verapamil.
    Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 Apr. 2023

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