Once thought to be related to migraine, it has been referred to as a vascular headache . Most cluster headache patients report some kind of regularity in these pain intervals, often occurring in spring and autumn. The relapsing-remitting course and the clockwise regularity are characteristic but unexplained signature features of the cluster headache. The striking daily timing of attacks has led to the concept of a brain origin for the attacks. Cluster headache does not seem to run in families although exceptions for this rule are known.
Cluster headache can occur at any age.
Unfortunately it does not seem to be a condition which one ' grows out of '. Treatment Treatment of cluster headche can be divided into acute treatment of the attacks and prevention of the attacks. The actual mechanism by which such substances trigger the attacks is as yet unkown. One of the safest treatements for the acute attacks is oxygen. Sumatriptan injections can provide rapid relief of the the acute attacks, often within 10 minutes.