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I find the denial about hormones confusing! In the 70's, if you had migraines, they would not give you B.C. pills! Why? Because they made the migraines worse. Nor would they mention CH if you were female. I am pretty confident that in the future, if they diagnose correctly, migraines and clusters will be equally split between the sexes. My son and daughter have migraines and I have CH. Which was undiagnosed for decades. Like from age 22 to age 58. At 58, I drug my husband to the Neuro with me so he would shut up about migraines! Once my husband told him 'I am sick of losing my wife at 8 o'clock every night!', he was willing to entertain the thought that I might have CH. They did come like clockwork after all. 'Headaches should not have gender roles…….the beast is bad enough!' AGREED!

.......in case you were wondering...Bejeeber is the good looking one....

Wish you well Riss! We (women CH) definitely take a burden. I was in ER once (away from home unfortunately) screaming for oxygen as doc was telling me she was going to give me migraine cocktail because SHE KNEW migraine was my problem. Obviously, the cocktail did nothing because it’s f-ing CH! My male cousin who suffers from migraine along with epilepsy deals with the opposite as though men can’t have migraines as jon019 alluded too. Headaches should not have gender roles…….the beast is bad enough!

Thanks Kat gonna give the Ginger a go with everything else im gonna try

....a coupla clusterheads keepin' an eye on things....

Thanks Jon019! Whenever I have mentioned hormonal fluctuations triggering CH I have generally been looked at like I was psycho. Guess I shouldn’t have believed the lit saying CH was mostly men, but I do think there is a tendency for some reason to put women under the “migraine” umbrella. Probably because most people don’t understand that CH is not the same. Also, fluctuation of barometric pressure does a number on me too We are on to something here

....monitoring these forums over the decades leads me to believe that the ratio of male/female in the "beast war" is prit' near 50:50. older lit and uninformed medicos still cling to the fallacy that it's a "guy thing"....which only increase the burden on female clusterheads. perhaps the guys are just more vocal AND/or one must realize the lit is (or was) written by men. the old saying that if men had to give birth there would be a whole lot more attn given to birth control is absolutely true.....IOW, males tend to look at things as it effects men. newer lit is much less, if at all, definitive re gender affliction levels. see men and migraine for a similar mis-belief the other direction..... ....my further belief, also developed by watching these forums and personal experience, is that significant fluctuations in hormonal levels, regardless of gender...are an effector of CH. see pregnancy, see high stress/de-stress situations, see D3 regimen (D is a hormone folks). i've always wondered if barometric levels follow a similar pattern. high or low never bothered me.....rapid fluctuations (e.g. weather fronts) dramatically significant. it also may be that levels outside "normal" is equally significant for some clusterheads.... ...pls pardon the small thread hi-jack....i think it wise to monitor how hormones affect any aspect of your health...considering your levels and how much, if any, to adjust ....an excellent idea!.... best jonathan