OUCH(UK) Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache

Donate

Advice Line

0800 6696 824

New research 862: Cluster Belly?

8 posts / 0 new
Last post
#1 Wed, 24/09/2014 - 14:20
PeterM
PeterM's picture
Offline
Last seen: 5 years 11 months ago
Joined: 21/03/2012 - 15:17

New research 862: Cluster Belly?

I think I may have had this as a child.  Hope the poor chaps doesn’t morph into CH.

Headache. 2014 Jul 18. doi: 10.1111/head.12429. [Epub ahead of print]

Cluster Belly: A Variant of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Robbins MS.

Author information

Abstract

Cluster headache (CH) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are pain disorders that possess relationships with circadian rhythms. However, they have not been compared to assess similarities that could yield pathophysiologic insights. A young male adult with periodic episodes of abdominal pain highly reminiscent of CH is described. Since childhood, he experienced severe attacks featuring excruciating, abdominal pain accompanied by prominent restlessness, lasting 30-120 minutes, occurring in the evening and in discrete 2- to 8-week periods, interspersed with remissions where typical triggers did not lead to attacks. Although all of the patient's symptoms fell within the spectrum of IBS, the semiology was highly evocative of CH, based on the attack duration, restlessness, periodicity, and selective vulnerability to particular triggers only during attack periods. A subset of patients thought to have IBS may feature similar attack profiles and could suggest the importance of the hypothalamus in its pathophysiology, akin to CH.

ATB
P.

Wed, 24/09/2014 - 20:11
Colin Allen Vic...
Offline
Last seen: 39 min 45 sec ago
Joined: 21/03/2012 - 15:19

I told you I didn't have a beer belly............it was CH all the time.

Colin Allen

Vice Chairman

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 07:27
duetto
Offline
Last seen: 7 years 8 months ago
Joined: 26/02/2014 - 14:54

there is a link my bowel's go into overdrive during bad clusters

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 08:31 (Reply to #3)
Colin Allen Vic...
Offline
Last seen: 39 min 45 sec ago
Joined: 21/03/2012 - 15:19

Thanks,David,I was in the middle of eating my shredded wheat.

Colin Allen

Vice Chairman

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 09:53
ElizabethK
Offline
Last seen: 1 week 2 days ago
Joined: 26/02/2014 - 14:26

Stop belly aching Colin Wink

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 12:38
Val
Offline
Last seen: 23 hours 16 min ago
Joined: 21/03/2012 - 15:16

OMG, Julia had just those symptoms for a few years before she moved to Aus and has had them occasionally ever since.  I wonder.....

 

Val.

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 13:00
ElizabethK
Offline
Last seen: 1 week 2 days ago
Joined: 26/02/2014 - 14:26

Oh boy Val, if there is something in that my so called IBS could mean something else, especially as when I was in my teens early twenties I got excruciating stomach pains periodically that disappeared for a long time and thought my current IBS was an extension of that!..................well I suppose I would almost have a full set then lol Chronic Migraine HC and poss CH?.....ooooer! I am not greedy really I am not! I could also be on the wrong track of course! (Colin be quiet!) Wink

Thu, 25/09/2014 - 13:21
Val
Offline
Last seen: 23 hours 16 min ago
Joined: 21/03/2012 - 15:16

This could open up a whole field of possibilities (stop it, Colin) regarding CH and part so the body it affects [this thread is rapidly deteriorating!].

 

Val. :~

Login to add comments

Share This

© OUCH(uk) 2024 | email: info@ouchuk.org
Registered Charity No. 1091919 | Registered in England Company No. 04339368