Sleeping With Cluster Headaches

Bedtime is a BAD time

“The interaction between sleep and headache is complex at any level and evidence suggests that it may be of critical importance in our understanding of primary headache disorders. In cluster headache several interactions between sleep and the severe pain attacks have already been proposed”

“Further, it is made plausible that the headache attacks are but one aspect of a more complex syndrome of central dysregulation manifesting as sleep-related complaints, sub-clinical autonomic dysregulation and of course the severe attacks of unilateral headache.”

Read the full article at the link below

SOURCE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542772/

EXCRUCIATING HEAD & EYE PAIN often wakes me up. Most of the time (For me), it happens shortly after falling asleep. It can REPEAT for as long as I try to sleep. The more sleep I try to get, the more attacks I will have. This viscous cycle can sometimes lead to FEARING SLEEP.

Cluster Sleep Pattern

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