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Hello. My name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today, I'm going
to talk to you about how to recognize and treat headache pains. Now, in this particular
clip, we're going to talk about one of the specific type of headaches that's called cluster
headaches. Let's look at the board, and I've broken down some of the information about,
particularly about, cluster headaches. Now, this particular type of headache affects twenty-five
of the cases that come into the clinic and also within the population. And interestingly
enough, this particular type of headache, cluster headaches, affects mainly the mail
population. And studies have shown that there's some kind of correlation or relatedness to
the course of this headache with the male hormone, or testosterone and also with the
particular lifestyle, in particular smoking. So males with the high history of smoking
usually come in with complaining of cluster headaches. Now these particular individuals
would normally come in and complain of this very intense pain that's behind or surround
one of the eyes and it's associated with other symptoms like nasal congestion, teary, tearing
of the eye that comes along with also this intense pain behind one of the eye. And these
particular headaches symptoms usually last for long periods. They last for days or weeks
and sometimes, in some patients, they complain of lasting for months. So this is one of the
many types of headaches that we've seen, cluster headaches.