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Case 18 - An Alarm Clock Headache

from Section 2 - Headache and Pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Mark McCarron
Mark McCarron
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Ulster University
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Summary

An 81-year-old left-handed man who still drove a car was referred to a neurology clinic because he had an eighteen-month history of nocturnal headaches. He explained that he was wakened most nights around 4 am with a global headache reaching 8 out of 10 in severity. He usually took 1 g of paracetamol and the pain eased over 30 minutes.

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55 Cases in Neurology
Case Histories and Patient Perspectives
 , pp. 121 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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