What associations do you get when you hear the word "headache"?

Cluster Headache is actually not a headache, but a severe serious neurological pain condition.

When the word "headache" is baked into the diagnosis (cluster headache) it can lead to several negative consequences on many levels.

The name clusterHEADACHE leads to the severity being underestimated and the suffering being trivialized.

This is the theme for todays episode.

Please feel free to message me on instagram if you have thoughts, opinions, ideas or suggestions.

Hva tenker du når du hører ordet hodepine?

Klasehodepine er faktisk ikke en hodepine, men en svært alvorlig nevrologisk smertelidelse.

Når ordet "hodepine" er bakt inn i Klasehodepinens diagnosenavn gir dette negative konsekvenser på utallige plan. Navnet KlaseHODEPINE gjør at alvoret undervurderes og lidelsen bagateliseres. Dette er dagens tema.

Meld meg gjerne på instagram: @klasepodden.123 eller @christinefinngaard om du har tanker, ideer eller meninger.

A trigger warning is given for this episode:

In this episode I talk about a very difficult topic:

Cluster headache and suicide.

September is suicide awareness month.

10th of september is world wide suicide prevention day.

I send here a clear message for more research, better pain managment, better medications and much more care for cluster headache patiens around the globe.

We have no one to lose!

If you have suicidal thoughts, please call emergency numbers in your country/region.

Here are some helpline numbers:

USA/Canada: 988, Great Britain/Ireland: 116 123, Australia: 131114/000, Netherlands: 113/0800-0113/112, Norway:113

You can contact me on @klasepodden.123 and @christinefinngaard on instagram

Take good care, and please reach out for help when needed.