After 16 years of suffering from headaches, I was dealt with by a needle, so amazing?

Headache, headache

Every time something difficult to do

We always feel so emotional

but

If the head really hurts

It's not soothing with a few words of emotion

Anhui guy Guo Zi (pseudonym)

Suffered 16 years of headaches

Every episode

He can't wait to change his head

Tossed to many hospitals

Did a bunch of checks

But I can't find out the cause

How is this going?

The beautiful years of 18 years old

But he started to suffer from headaches

Guo Zi, 34 years old this year, was born in a small village in Anhui.

Guo Zi is smart, willing to endure hardships, and learns to do business little by little.

Life was going well, but there is something that has tormented Guo Zi since he was 18 years old: there will be severe pain around his temple on the left side of his head without warning, every time it hurts like his head is about to explode, what's the matter? I can’t dry it, my left eye can’t be opened, soreness, tears, nasal congestion and runny nose, and even nausea and vomiting.

In the beginning, Guo Zi’s "strange disease" had one or two episodes a year (each episode would last for several days and recurring episodes).

"It may be a migraine" "It may be a trigeminal neuralgia".

In the Spring Festival of 2021, Guo Zi drank a lot of alcohol.

It turned out to be "cluster headache"

I can finally open my eyes after "a shot"

Chief physician Feng Zhiying, director of the Department of Pain at the First Hospital of Zhejiang University, received Guo Zi.

After a series of examinations, after eliminating the problem of organic disease, according to Guo Zi’s symptoms and the situation that analgesic drugs have no effect on it, based on rich clinical experience, Director Feng Zhiying considered that Guo Zi might be suffering from the disease.

"Cluster headache, also known as sphenopalatine neuralgia, is secondary intermittent neuralgia originating from the trigeminal nerve.

When this kind of pain occurs, the eyes will be sore, unable to open, watery, and the nose will also be blocked, runny nose and other symptoms.

The area within the red circle for pulsed radiofrequency treatment

In order to make a further diagnosis, Guo Zi was admitted to the Pain Department of the Zhijiang District of the First Hospital of Zhejiang University.

Soon, on March 1, Deputy Chief Physician Guo Jianguo performed a minimally invasive pulsed radiofrequency surgery on the sphenopalatine ganglion on Guo Zi, that is, under the guidance of imaging, a radiofrequency needle was used to puncture the sphenopalatine ganglion for pulsed radiofrequency treatment.

After the operation, Guo Zi found that the pain that had tortured him for more than a week disappeared: "The nose is clear, and the eyes are not uncomfortable!" On the second day after the operation, Guo Zi was discharged from the hospital smoothly and he had no recurrences.

Don't want to be tortured by this pain

Do these things less

According to experts from the Department of Pain at the First Hospital of Zhejiang University, cluster headache has been discovered for more than 250 years, and its pathogenesis is still unclear.

Deputy Chief Physician Guo Jianguo said: “The age of onset of patients is about 20 to 50 years old, and most of them are men.

Although cluster headaches are not directly life-threatening, the severe pain at the onset seriously affects the patient's normal life.

According to Deputy Chief Physician Guo Jianguo, if middle-aged and young patients have repeated headaches, tears and severe nose discomfort during the attacks, it is recommended to consider whether it may be a cluster headache.

Discrimination of several common headache diseases

Migraine

Head and face pain, mostly hemi-head soreness and pain, regular rhythmic attacks, longer duration, and visual aura symptoms, the pain is throbbing pain, often with a family history of onset.

Trigeminal neuralgia

It is mostly short-term lightning-like pain, usually not accompanied by neurological dysfunction.
The pain is consistent with the distribution of the trigeminal nerve, and there is usually a trigger point.
Each attack takes several seconds to several minutes.

Cluster headache

Head and face intensive (clustered, clustered) headache, severe, sharp pain, and explosive, often accompanied by congestion, tearing, and nasal congestion on the ipsilateral eyeball conjunctiva.
The clustering period lasts for several weeks to several months.

Different headache treatment methods are different, and headaches caused by organic lesions should also be considered.
Therefore, it is recommended that you go to a professional doctor to confirm the cause and treat the symptoms.