What Does New Cluster Headache Research Show About Sex Differences?

[jon019]

What Does New Cluster Headache Research Show About Sex Differences? (medscape.org)

[Bejeeber]

“I have patients in our cohort and our clinic who say they go to neurologists with all the symptoms of cluster headache, and the neurologists say that ‘you can’t have cluster headache because you’re a woman,’ “Dr Belin said.

The fact that this could still be occurring to this day is just so mind bogglingly far beyond negligent. 

 

[spiny]

It seems that the men hang onto the 'Leonine facial featured male' of about a hundred years ago!! And MOST Neuros are???? MEN! 

It will wind up being 50 - 50, as will Migraines I think. 

Men having alcohol as their main trigger just shows that more men were drinking with their CH than women. Given the same alcohol, it is most likely that both respond the same way. As for the length of cycle or being chronic, it may be true. But who knows at this point? 

I do know that until I forced my husband to watch Hollywood and see Dan slam the lamp. Then the other (who was that?) guy peeling his face off on the carpet, he thought that I was over-reacting to pain and that a man could and would cope better than I was. That bit of film flipped a dang switch in his head that needed to be thrown! I will be forever grateful to those guys. 

I will say that I think they need to get off the hormone train! Men can't have Migraines because they have different hormones from women and women get Migraines. Women can't have Clusters because they have hormones, but the wrong ones. 

I have CH and my son has Migraines and Ice Picks. Hmmm. 

[Bejeeber]

You tell it, sister!

(For the record for anyone new, I'm male, but my ma taught me to respect the gals and to recognize the kinda BS they all too often have had to deal with)