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Clusterbusters is dedicated to researching treatments that show promise for reliable, effective and long term relief, from cluster and related headaches.

We hope that within these pages and our associated sites you can find information that can help you and your loved ones.

Clusterbusters, a IRS-approved 501 (c) (3) non-profit research and educational organization,
is dedicated to finding effective treatment of Cluster Headache worldwide.

Our Purpose is stated in the Bylaws of Incorporation:
This corporation has been organized to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including, but not limited to the following:

  • Section 1. To help its' members find solutions to problems that exist as a result of cluster headaches.
  • Section 2. To educate its' members about cluster headaches.
  • Section 3. To inform its' members about research involving cluster headaches.
  • Section 4. To provide its' members with resource materials to read and view involving cluster headaches.
  • Section 5. To encourage, participate and fund research into the causes of cluster headaches.
  • Section 6. To encourage, participate and fund research into treatments for alleviating the pain and various symptoms of cluster headaches.
  • Section 7. To encourage, participate and fund research into finding a cure for cluster headaches.
Join us in the search for answers to managing this condition.

What is Cluster Headache?

      The International Headache Society has classified cluster headache as a primary headache, ICHD II 3.1 Their description is attacks of severe, strictly unilateral pain which is orbital, supraorbital, temporal or in any combination of these sites, lasting 15-180 minutes and occurring from once every other day to 8 times a day. The attacks are associated with one or more of the following, all of which are ipsilateral: conjunctival injection, lacrimation, nasal congestion, rhinorrhoea, forehead and facial sweating, miosis, ptosis, eyelid oedema. Most patients are restless or agitated during an attack.

      Dr. Todd Rozen, in an article published in US Neurology Review, October 2008 had this to say: "There is no more severe pain than that sustained by a cluster headache sufferer and if not for the rather short duration of attacks most cluster sufferers would choose death rather than continue suffering. Cluster has been nicknamed the 'suicide headache' because cluster sufferers typically have thought about taking or have taken their lives during a cluster headache."

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