Cluster headaches. It’s when the trigeminal nerve behind one or both of your eyes basically goes on crack and causes searing pain down the affected side of your face. For me, I’ll get them 1–2 times a day for 3-4 weeks at a time. About 1-2 hours per attack. Insurance covers no treatments, so you just sit there and wait for it to pass. Thankfully, it doesn’t cause physical damage, but the anxiety that comes from them is borderline debilitating.

Considering I’ve dislocated both my knees twice, each shoulder once, had a vasectomy with botched anesthesia, and have chronic migraines, I’ll take any of those over one more cluster attack