The Cluster Headache Emergency

The receipts behind Chapter 11

Cluster headache patients rate their attacks worse than childbirth, and the drug they are most often handed is the one drug that does nothing for it. The attack is over in forty-five minutes; the correct diagnosis takes a median of eleven years. In Chapter 11 I walk through the misdiagnosis trail, the treatments that work in fifteen minutes, and the ganglion behind the nose that can be silenced in a chair, awake, in ten minutes.

The book makes the argument. This supplement shows the evidence, claim by claim: the study, who was in it, the number and where it sits in the paper, what it does not show — and the questions to bring to your own physician. It is written to be handed to your doctor.

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