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flunarizine

Treatment for Cluster Headache

Flunarizine is a calcium channel blocker that reduces neuronal calcium influx, leading to decreased neuronal excitability and inhibition of neurotransmitter release. In cluster headache treatment, it modulates cerebrovascular tone and potentially reduces inflammatory neurogenic processes, thereby helping to prevent and reduce the frequency and severity of headache episodes.

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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

Nerve blockVerapamilFlunarizinePropranolol

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spring--time

3.0

I had a cluster each spring since my first attack when I was 15 (31 now) but these were very short, 1 or 2 weeks and only 1 attack, always at 4PM. In 2016, 2017 I had no cycles at all. Then in 2018 during summer I had a bad one that always started ...View more

SumatriptanPropranololFlunarizine

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msmmm_mmmmmm

1.0

## Is cluster headache a migraine? Confused on what the doctor’s been doing with me... A little background: went to the neuro for a dull and/or stabbing pain around one eye, sinus congestion, tear production, light & noise sensitivity, tenderness aro...View more

GabapentinFlunarizine

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Utopiae

4.0

First of all, your main question: Cluster headaches are not migraines. They are a separate illness, but similar in some aspects (f.e. no definitive cause, no cure, treatments work to a different degree from one individual to the next). Flunarizine ...View more

Flunarizine

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