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beta blockers

Treatment for Cluster Headache

Beta blockers, such as propranolol, reduce neuronal excitability and vascular reactivity by antagonizing β-adrenergic receptors, which can help modulate the sympathetic nervous system's response associated with cluster headache pathogenesis. By blocking these receptors, beta blockers decrease catecholamine-induced vasoconstriction and modulate pain signaling, potentially reducing the frequency and intensity of cluster headache episodes.

3.7

AVERAGE EFFICACY

CASE STUDIES

242

REDDIT COMMENTS

309

REPORTED SIDE EFFECTS

Case Studies

Coexistence of cluster headache and paroxysmal hemicrania: does it exist? A case report and literature review

5.0

This case study reports a 22-year-old male with simultaneous cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania who responded completely to indomethacin treatment, with a literature review of similar coexisting cases.

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Cluster-status migrainosus with a weekly periodicity responsive to high-flow oxygen: A case report

4.0

A 54-year-old female presented with a unique pattern of cluster headaches that evolved into status migrainosus, which was successfully treated with high-flow 100% oxygen after multiple other treatments failed.

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This case study reports a 22-year-old male with simultaneous cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, both types of attacks responding to indomethacin treatment. The study also reviews literature on the coexistence of these two trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.

5.0

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Reddit Comments

legal-beagle-

4.0

One other thing if you're looking for another prescription daily med, propranolol was amazing for me initially but I couldn't tolerate the side effects. I have a pretty sensitive system and was having joint pain and just didn't feel 'right' but it wa...View more

Beta blockers

Reported Side Effects

Joint painMalaiseKidney toxicityElectrolyte imbalance

BallsackMcGirkin

4.0

1) At the age of 15, 20 years for now from which 5 years I have been absolutely cycle free and from 15y to 25y it was misdiagnosed as chronic migraines. 2) My cycles went seasonally, mostly during the fall and sometimes during the spring time. My ne...View more

Beta blockersSmoking cessationAlcohol cessationDietary modificationExerciseCaffeineIce therapySumatriptanOxygen therapy

Reported Side Effects

General side effect

spring--time

4.0

When I was fifteen and walking in my garden it was the first attack. It was spring so I thought it was sinusitis. I made myself believe I was having sinus infections each spring for many years. Then I had my first bad cycle in winter, I banged my hea...View more

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YouCanCountMeOut

2.0

## Chronic or Episodic? I feel like I am a chronic sufferer. I will be assaulted by these headaches every day, multiple times a day, for weeks on end. Occasionally, I will get a reprieve for a few days and just when I think it is over, they hit me ag...View more

Calcium channel blockersBeta blockersTriptansIndomethacin

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