How to Use cluster headache in a Sentence

cluster headache

noun
  • No known treatment had ever straight-up ended a cluster headache.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024
  • There's no cure for a cluster headache, and treatment is more complicated than a simple pill.
    — Susie East, CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The study also confirmed some key differences between migraines and cluster headaches.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Well, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Several types of headaches, like migraine and cluster headaches, cause unilateral (one-sided) pain.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 July 2024
  • And other conditions that lag behind cluster headaches will take even longer, leaving people to suffer in the interim.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024
  • At the low point, early on, Joe McKay was getting cluster headaches every other day for an hour at a time.
    — Jerry Carino, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Just like migraines have their own specific characteristics, so do other types of headaches, such as tension and cluster headaches.
    — Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • People with cluster headaches had both higher cortisol levels and lower melatonin levels.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And while cluster headaches commonly occur during the night, migraines usually come on during the day, the meta-analysis found.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The medications currently used to treat cluster headaches include the heart and psychiatric issues.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2019
  • Several underlying conditions, such as migraine, cluster headaches, and infections, can cause pain on one side of your head.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 July 2024
  • Vagus nerve stimulation has been used as a therapy to treat a range of conditions, including epilepsy and cluster headaches.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • The cause is unknown, but cluster headaches may occur if something with the body’s biological clock is off, per the Mayo Clinic.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Justin Dolan, 30, of Belleville, New Jersey, has been living with cluster headaches for about 15 years.
    — Susie East, CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Also, cluster headaches generally aren’t triggered by certain factors, like stress or hormonal changes, the way tension headaches and migraines can be.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019
  • From depression and anxiety to PTSD and even cluster headaches, research has shown promise across them all.
    — Essence, 22 July 2025
  • Another is being investigated as a treatment for cluster headaches.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Several types of headaches exist—such as migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches—and can occur for several reasons, from certain foods to not getting enough sleep.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Men are more likely to experience cluster headaches, whereas female migraine patients outnumber their male counterparts at a ratio of about three to one.
    — Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
  • For cluster headaches, oxygen therapy (which uses a respiratory mask to inhale oxygen) can help relieve symptoms.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 July 2024
  • Seizures, cluster headaches, evidence of stroke, lesions in the brain and loss of brain volume have also been found in various combinations in Cotard’s patients.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • But back in 1998, someone posted on an internet forum that LSD seemed to have negated his cluster headaches.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024
  • Certain medications can trigger cluster headaches, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 30 Dec. 2019
  • While some headaches—like cluster headaches and tension headaches—can occur on their own without a specific reason, other headaches can be related to outside circumstances, like allergies.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 9 May 2023
  • But while some headaches—like cluster headaches and tension headaches—can occur on their own without a specific reason, other headaches can be related to outside circumstances, like allergies.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 9 May 2023
  • Advertisement Lynch himself used medical marijuana to help with cluster headaches.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Migraine, cluster headache, post-traumatic headache and the 200 other headache diagnoses affect lives without leaving visible scars.
    — Julienne Verdi, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
  • Studies are beginning to corroborate anecdotes, for example, that DMT could treat cluster headaches, one of the most painful conditions known to humankind.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Sorting through the data helped the company identify its first clinical targets—migraines and cluster headaches—but also suggested future research directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
  • Examples include cluster headaches, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis (MS).
    — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 20 Dec. 2024

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