It's like Tang Sanzang reciting a tight spell, a headache I hope you never get.
# Changsha Headlines # Hunan Women's and Children's Hospital
Talking about the tight band spell
You may first think of the story of the Journey to the West
The story of the Monkey King being put under a tight spell by the Tang monk
Whenever Wukong's beastly nature was untamed
Tang Xuanzang recited the tight band spell
Wukong will be in pain, grimacing, painful
Stories are stories
In reality, there are many patients who suffer from headaches like being put under a tight band
There are really many
1 、 Headache since childhood, like a dagger stabbed into the head
Xiao Zeng is 30 years old and has been suffering from headaches since he was 9 years old.
The headache starts in the afternoon every time, starting from the left orbit, and the pain makes the eyes red, tearing, running nose, and spreading to the left frontal-temporal parieto-occipital. Attack, not daring to move the body, not daring to make a sound, and having to force oneself to keep the whole person in a state of complete stillness (in Xiao Zeng's words, a state of playing dead), after 2-3 hours of attack The problem is that the person is not able to move his or her body.
By chance, Xiao Zeng got the number of Shi Kaiyin, director of the pain department of Hunan Women's and Children's Hospital.
"Like a dagger in the head!"
"Like someone yanking out the eyeball!"
"Like cutting ice with a sharp chisel!"
Looking at Xiao Zeng's such a distinct description, Director Shi also asked for a detailed medical history, conducted a physical examination for Xiao Zeng, and asked clearly about his previous examinations and treatments one by one, recording. The first visit, which took a full hour.
By perfecting the relevant auxiliary examinations, Director Shi ruled out structural organic lesions of the skull and brain, and diagnosed Xiao Zeng's headache as-cluster headache with a pain level rated 10 out of 10 (degree: top pain) during attacks.
In response to Xiao Zeng's specific condition and tracing the root cause, Director Shi developed a symptomatic treatment plan.
After two medical consultations and one acupuncture treatment, Director Shi miraculously reduced and eliminated Xiao Zeng's headache attacks in only two weeks! It used to take 4-5 months to get over the attacks, but now it took half a month to get over it! Xiao Zeng was so excited that he went to the hospital to express his gratitude to Director Shi.
2. Cluster pain, what you don't know
You may not be aware of the seriousness of cluster pain, which is also known as "suicide disease".
According to a clinical neurology study at University College London, cluster headaches are probably the most painful of all known human experiences. The pain is like having a drill repeatedly poked into your eye, and many sufferers are so distressed that they want to die, which is where the name "suicide disease" comes from.
Cluster headaches have no signs and symptoms, and the pain usually lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to three hours at the onset, and can occur intensely every day for two weeks to three months, ranging in frequency from once every other day to eight times a day. When a headache strikes, you can't sleep at night, you can't sit, you can't stand, and the magnitude of the pain is unbearable for the average person.
Cluster headaches eat away not only at the mind of the sufferer, but also at their appearance. When suffering from cluster headaches on a regular basis, patients often have droopy eyelids and constricted pupils.
However, the cause of cluster headaches is still unknown.
For reference, cluster headaches have a seasonal pattern, usually peaking at the autumn and spring equinoxes, when many patients experience intense attacks. This phenomenon suggests that cluster headaches may be related to the hypothalamus and the supraoptic nucleus, as these two brain regions are the centers of circadian rhythms in the human brain.
In addition, the age of onset of cluster headache is usually 20-40 years, with the majority of cases occurring young. Patients with cluster headaches have been reported to range in age from as young as 1 year to as old as 79 years, and men suffer from cluster headaches three times more frequently than women. According to data from the American Cluster Headache Survey, women may behave differently than men, for example: women tend to develop cluster headaches at an earlier age and are also more likely to show a second peak in cluster headache onset after age 50.
3. Have pain, try a pain department!
Because unlike secondary headaches, which can be identified by blood tests, imaging, and other evidence, the diagnosis of cluster headache can only be made clinically. This means that the physician must have at least some knowledge and experience with cluster headaches. But the reality is that cluster headache patients are rare, and most neurologists may be more concerned with the more common migraine, cardiovascular disease, or Parkinson's disease, and the physician's knowledge of cluster headache may not be comprehensive in the early years.
In this way, the Pain Department at Hunan Women's and Children's Hospital is an emerging discipline that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of chronic and intractable pain. With many diagnostic tools and a standardized treatment system, the pain department belongs to a surgical department that is capable of both pharmacological and surgical treatment.
Having been engaged in neurosurgery for more than 40 years, Dr. Shi Kaiyin, chief physician of the pain department, as a pain medicine exchange scholar of the University of Bonn, Germany, and a special professor of the Institute of Pain Medicine of Central South University, has profound clinical knowledge, strong interdisciplinary diagnostic ability, strong differential diagnostic ability for various pain complications, and unique diagnostic experience for various intractable headaches.
Although cluster headache is very powerful, it is possible to achieve significant results with proper treatment.
(Editor Rainbow.)
Source: Hunan Women's and Children's Hospital
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