Menstrual cluster

July 19, 2007

Cluster headaches are much more common in men. Cluster headaches are much more common in men. However, they do occur in women and in the latest issue of journal Headache Dr. T. Rozen presents the first report of a woman who was having cluster attacks only with her menstrual cycle.

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Alexander Mauskop, MD

September 10, 2026

Brain disorders

Genetic connection of fibromyalgia with low back pain, PTSD, IBS, and other disorders.

A genome-wide study published in Nature Medicine found that fibromyalgia shares genetic risk factors with chronic pain conditions, IBS, PTSD, and sleep disturbances. This supports treating these overlapping conditions as one problem of a hyperexcitable nervous system rather than as separate diseases, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines psychological therapies with medications, injections, and neurostimulation.

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