Cluster headaches are treated in a multi-pronged approach. One, we give medications to try to stop the cluster headaches when the patient has them. And these include medications like triptans, which are similarly used in migraine. Then we do a mini-preventative, or short-term prophylaxis treatment, and this is to try to give some quicker, short-term relief, than trying to decrease the number of the headaches. And then we use a long-term medication to give a more long-term prevention of the headaches.
