High dose intravenous methylprednisolone in cluster headache

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Bouts of cluster headache may be resistant to all the drugs usually effective, such as typical migraine preventing drugs, lithium, carbamazepine, valproate, and corticosteroids. Corticosteroids have been commonly used in cycles of 10–15 intravenous daily infusions of 50–100 mg prednisone. During a severe bout in a patient resistant to all treatments, we have tried high dose (500 to 1000 mg/day intravenously) methylprednisolone administration: single doses were found to be effective in blocking headache attacks for several days. A 53 year old man began to have cluster headache at the age of 35. For several years he had about one cluster every two years, easily controlled by one or more of the commonly used drugs. In the past years, however, the clusters became increasingly resistant to all treatment. When aged 51 he had a cluster lasting …

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