The self-help measures described here are provided by CH sufferers and are based upon their own personal experiences. These suggestions are not intended to serve as medical advice. We cannot vouch for their efficacy or their safety. In fact, some of these methods of dealing with pain could be harmful or dangerous for certain individuals. Check with your doctor before trying any of these measures.

Suggestions for Easing the Pain of a CH Attack

Application of Pressure to Ease Head Pain

  Pressing blood vessels in the head sometimes eases the pain of an attack.

  See this tip as an alternative to Imitrex injections.

  Read what one sufferer says about his use of lidocaine to ease or abort an attack.

   Contributed by many cluster headache sufferers; collected by Annemarie.

  Dania's experience with this "natural" remedy.

  An enjoyable means of stopping a cluster attack.

  Check this out.

  While exercise can increase pain in some sufferers...

  Charlie Strand shares Dr. Wright's method of aborting or easing a CH attack.

  A long-time veteran of episodic CH explains several different methods of applying heat to ease or abort a CH attack.

  Several methods that have worked for him.

  One sufferer's experience with managing hypoglycemia as a remedy for CH pain.


Last modified: March 2008