While most of us experience headaches at one time or another, normally it's something a few aspirin will cure. This is not the case with cluster headaches, and while there are many possible remedies, there has yet to be a definitive cure. Some Medical Journals report that the pain of a cluster headache is so severe it is almost beyond our capacity to withstand. The median age of a cluster headache sufferer is 30 years old. Most of those who develop cluster headaches have their first cluster headache between the age of 20 and 50. Nevertheless, you can develop a cluster headache at any time in life. Some people actually experience their firs symptoms before they even turn 10-years-old. There are also some people who do not get cluster headaches until they are 80-years-old or older. Men are usually affected more often than women. In fact, five out of every six who suffer from a cluster headache is a male.

A cluster headache is definitely one of the most painful form of headaches but there are many other types of headaches identified by medical experts, such as migraines and the caffeine and the cervicogenic headaches. Cluster headaches were called such because the headache episodes occur frequently and at the same time within periods. For example, a person may experience terrible headache every 2 p.m. of the day for the whole summer. After summer, that person will not feel the headache anymore, until the following summer, when the cluster of headaches start to reappear.

Cluster headaches were called such because the headache episodes occur frequently and at the same time within periods. For example, a person may experience terrible headache every 2 p.m. of the day for the whole summer. After summer, that person will not feel the headache anymore, until the following summer, when the cluster of headaches start to reappear. The cluster headache can occur in anyone, but is more common among men from 20 to 40 years of age. There seems to be no correlation between the fact that these headaches strike men in the years when they are commonly parents of young children. The pain from the localized and very painful cluster headache drives people to crazed antics or desperate acts to distract their mind from the pain. They may wander listlessly, move crazily and even beat their heads against walls.

Cluster headache symptoms often begin just after going to sleep. Doctors don't know why this is, exactly, but it's a common pattern. It's not universal, though; they can come on at any time of day or night. Also, the pain is located on only one side of your head or face, which is where many people mistakenly think the name cluster headaches come from, because the pain isn't spread out evenly, but instead clusters in a particular area. (The name actually refers to the fact that cluster headaches occur in clusters of time, with attacks happening over a period of weeks or months, then stopping.) In the vast sufferers, the pain is on the same side of the face in during nearly every headache, while a small minority of people report that the attacks alternate between both sides.