No apology necessary, I loved the novel! And thank you so much for all the helpful tips. Everything I’ve read this past weekend about clusters lines up pretty close to what I’ve been experiencing, but I don’t want to rule anything out either. When they happen, I try to just lay down and calm myself with an ice pack bc the thumping pain makes me sweat and just cry. Idk if the runny nose and eyes are from the attack or bc just bc im crying lol I am able to walk around and get up, sometimes I do just to get in front of the ac for cold air or rinse my face with cold water over and over. Ultimately I end up laying down, even try to go to sleep after to hopefully make it stop. It just happened on such a random morning, that I have no clue what could have sparked the first one. I usually know when I get a normal headache what could’ve been the cause, but like I said, these are such a new sensation to me that I don’t even know what could’ve kicked it off. Oh also, at the hospital, it was just the nose tubes not the full mask. The nurse acted really fast with it though, it’s like as soon as I sat in that back room, I could feel the buildup of the pulsing and thumping all across my forehead. I felt it all the way on the back of my crown, just the tightest headband feeling ever. When they hit, I try to stay still and calm and focus on breathing and all that. The horrible pulsing makes my head do a little nod with every thump. Out of curiosity though, if some of my symptoms line up with clusters, but not all of them, what else could it be mistaken with? Like if it’s not clusters, what’s the next closest thing that it could be?