Clusterheads - Short Documentary

A short film made during my second year of university about the sufferers of clusterheadaches.

It follows my Stepdad, Mike as he talks about the pains and conditions of suffering from clusterheadhaches, how this affects his everyday life, and why it needs to be made more aware to the general public.

I'd also like to give a HUGE thanks to Anthony Amabile for the use of his incredibly shocking video footage of his attack within our film. Thank You.

(c) Oxygen Productions 2008
Producer - Jurgen Fellows
Director - Daniel Cole
Editor - Christopher Hufton
Camera - Sheila Ladu

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Documentary
• Interview
• Short
• Film
• clusterheadaches
• cluster
• headache

[ajg33nyc]

PLEASE HELP US ALL AND GET US CLOSER TO A CURE!

[ClusterHeadSurvivor]

thanks for the awesome Documentary. Iam a chronic suffer....5.5 years...Not one single day off.....I have a video as well.

Again thanks and Blessings

[movadoband]

I had to use opiates for many years, I chose between a bullet and a buzz...fairly easy choice.

[nipplecat]

i've seen a video on National Geographic saying that magic mushrooms ease the pain, please read up about it if you havent heard of it, you never know it may help you

[SyedRizvi786110]

I have been suffering CH for around 6 years now and this is something I pray someday will have a cure.

Every year, there has to be one month or so, that the 'beast that resides in my head' terrifies me. My heart goes out to everyone who suffers from this never ending knightmare.

I can just hope maybe, someone, somewhere, will find a cure for this.

[jetsamjetsam]

I'm a chronic suffer too and i'm 18. I don't want to suffer this for another few decades.

[MHS325]

so that clip at the end he has to go through 4 times a day, i hope some time soon there is some better way to make these stop and let people like this live a better life because this is just sad to see a person in so much pain

[cockroachafro]

i had heard the term cluster headache a few times and really thought it was just a specific type of headache, quite severe.. but NOTHING like what i am witnessing. This is truely a terrifying thing and my best wishes goes out to all the folks experiancing this. Lets hope for a more effective medical treatment !

[chill14later]

It is exactly like the man in the video said when he referred to time of day & how predictable they are.... I would take Mike Tyson in his prime bashing my skull in over a cluster headache any day. I'm 34 years old, I have had Cluster headaches for 2 years, Out of no where they began for reasons that I don't understand. I have a very high tolerance for pain but the first time I got one I thought it was my last day on earth. After it was over all I could do was cry & started counting my days.

[chill14later]

I can describe it, If you have ever seen the movie Hostel part 1 in the torture scene when the girl gets a torch put to her eyeball, That is the best way to put! It fucking sucks! After a cluster headache, Your brain feels a dull but constant pain much like a slightly torn muscle. So much effort & energy is drained from you during an attack that afterwards you can't just pick up right where you were beforehand. It takes everything out of you, & at times even the will to survive.

[xPGPRoDiGy97]

oh my god.. and I complain about frequent headaches.. i feel so bad :(

[Ellista2k]

Today in the gym while trying to finish my workout, i had the worst type of headache i think it was a cluster headache, i felt my right eye being crashed

In my point of view i could see a Green yellowish line it was if you've looked into the sun for awhile.in my head i felt a pressure I've never felt before its was so painful. at first it was unbearable. but i slept it out when i got home.. i hope i never get another one of those pain again.I feel bad for the people that constantly getting it