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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Cluster headache sufferer: I could rip my eye out at times

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A cluster headache sufferer has described the horrendous and debilitating pain brought on by the condition which can occur up to 10 times a day. Carolyn Matheson told 5 live Breakfast about the first time she experienced a cluster headache: ā€œIt was like an iron rod going through my head, a knife being stabbed and turned round in my eye and it lasted for an hour and a half.ā€ ā€œI could rip my eye our at times it’s so bad. If there’s nothing to take the pain away I don’t know what to do with myself.ā€ Cluster headaches affect around one in a thousand people in the UK. This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Friday 5 May 2017.

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