4. Cluster headaches are very rare
As few as 1 in 1000 people are affected by cluster headaches, making them an incredibly rare thing to affect people. What this means is that when you’re looking to identify the cause of your head pain, chances are that it probably isn’t clustered headaches.
There is a long list of other head pain-related illnesses and conditions that are much more likely to affect far many more people. Things like dehydration and alcohol hangovers are far more likely to be the cause of a new headache pain than cluster headaches are.
In a recent survey of people shopping in an Oklahoma shopping mall, a striking 2% of respondents had ever suffered from cluster headaches, proving just how rare they are.
However rare they are though, this doesn’t detract from how life-changing and debilitating from the small percentage of the world’s population who are unfortunate enough to suffer from cluster headaches.