Not many people in my surroundings understand how cluster headaches work and how they feel

Hey everybody

I got diagnosed with cluster headaches recently like couple of weeks ago. I still go to school since I’m only 18. Since the attacks started I was absent from school a lot and when the diagnose came no one understood it or the situation. The teachers and my classmates just don’t understand that 1 moment I can feel ok and 10 minutes later I want to bang my head against a wall. Some of my classmates think I’m faking being sick to just skip school but I wish I was doing that.

Did anyone else have these experiences in their life that no one understood it. I think its really frustrating.