Following the sad death of our chairman, Mike Pollock, an extraordinary general meeting of the Trustees was held to elect a new chairman. OUCH is delighted to announce that our patron, Professor Peter Goadsby, accepted nomination as chairman and was elected unanimously. The Professor is now based at King's College Hospital and will be the keynote speaker at our London meeting in November. He has been a staunch supporter of OUCH since its inception in 2001. In 2001, one of his clinics was running late and several patients started talking to one another and discovered they all had cluster headache. They then met up online and OUCH was formed in 2001 and became a registered charity in 2002; OUCH owes its existence to our new chairman...
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Posted: August 7, 2015
If you've ever said you wanted to do something to help sufferers and you are a sufferer yourself, well here is your opportunity!
Study of CGRPss in Episodic Cluster Headache
Professor Goadsby at King's College Hospital, London is looking for volunteers for an important study of CGRPs [calcitonin gene related peptides] in episodic cluster headache sufferers. The criteria for participants for the CGRP TRIAL have been amended:
- The participant needs to be an episodic or chronic sufferer; if episodic within first two to three weeks of cycle; can be at very start of the cycle but need to have 8 weeks of cycle left after enrolling to this trial; chronic sufferers,...
Posted: February 13, 2015
If you use the Sun Pharmaceuticals sumatriptan injections, please be aware that we have been informed their production site for the injections is being shut down for maintenance and the injections will not now be available until early 2016.
However, we have been informed that Glaxo Smith Kline who also manufacture sumatriptan injections have sufficient supplies to meet the extra demand.
If your prescription specifically states 'Sun injections' just ask your GP to amend it to 'sumatriptan injections' and the GSK ones can be substituted.
Any questions or queries on the above, please e-mail info@ouchuk.org or call the...
Posted: August 6, 2014
We are delighted to announce our next meeting will take place on October 19th in London in the Governance Hall at the world renowned St Thomas' Hospital by kind permission of Guys & St Thomas Hospitals Trust, Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy Clinical lead and Consultant in Pain and Neuromodulation and Dr Giorgio Lambru, consultant neurologist of St Thomas' Hospital Headache Team. This will be a very special meeting as we have some topline speakers.
Speakers so far confirmed are:
Professor Peter Goadsby, our patron and director of the Welcome Trust Neuroscience research facility at Kings College Hospital;
Dr Giorgio Lambru, Consultant Neurologist and Lead of the Headache...
Posted: March 26, 2014
To celebrate turning 60, I thought it would be the perfect reason to run one final marathon. 
Over the past few weeks, my friends and running pals have supported me in my training. In order to help motivate me over the course of the 26.2 miles, I would appreciate any contibutions towards my target.
My chosen charity is the Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headaches (OUCH UK). This fantastic charity has provided continuous support for both Bev and I as well as all of the other...
Read More Posted: January 31, 2014
OUCH is delighted to announce the member’s forum and online payments will be operational from 26 February. We apologise for the delay in making this available, but we can assure you we have been working hard behind the scenes to replace the hacked website and forum. An e-mail will be sent to all members with a one time only password to give you access both to the forum and your own account and instructions for how to do this will be included and what to do next.
The site may be unavailable at certain times in the next couple of weeks - please don't worry as we are carrying out vital updates that require the site to be offline for short periods. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
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Posted: December 17, 2013
Mike Pollock, OUCH’s chairman addressed Westminster’s All Party Group on Primary Headache Disorders during a meeting held in the House of Commons on December 11. The All Party Group has a particular interest in headache types such as migraine, trigeminal neuralgia and, of course, cluster headaches. The Group has around twenty members from a number of political parties and includes MPs as well as members of the House of Lords.
Mike explained the real challenges faced by those who suffer from CH and showed the Group the variety of treatments used to abort attacks such as sumatriptan injections, a gammacore device as well as an oxygen cylinder.
Other speakers included medical specialists who sought to give professional...
Read More Posted: November 29, 2013
Give an unusual and fun Christmas present that lasts a whole year!
2014 is not far away and yet again Helen Hardwick and her wonderful group of friends have got together and produced a fun and saucy OUCH Calendar – this year pictures are all on the theme of sport! You'll never watch boxing or darts in quite the same light again! Helen's father is a CH sufferer and the calendar is Helen's way of raising funds as a thank you for what OUCH has done to help her father. Helen and her friends raise money to cover the production costs so that the entire profit comes to OUCH. Its a really unusual way of saying thank you and a brilliant answer to the annual conundrum of what to give someone as a Christmas present....
Read More Posted: November 12, 2013
Welcome to our new website! Due to a security breach on our old site we had to make the new site live a bit sooner than anticipated and therefore some parts are not fully-functioning yet.
The forum and online payments are not working but we are busy working hard behind the scenes updating our membership database and as soon as that is complete we will be contacting you with details on how to activate your account so please don't try and log in yet as your details won't be recognised.
In the meantime please bear with us while we get your new website ready and if you have any questions please do get in touch.
Posted: March 9, 2012
Ouch are looking to branch out and start selling mugs - here is a taster of what's to come
