Cluster headache sufferer: I could rip my eye out at times

A cluster headache sufferer has described the horrendous and debilitating pain brought on by the condition which can occur up to 10 times a day.

Carolyn Matheson told 5 live Breakfast about the first time she experienced a cluster headache: “It was like an iron rod going through my head, a knife being stabbed and turned round in my eye and it lasted for an hour and a half.”

“I could rip my eye our at times it’s so bad. If there’s nothing to take the pain away I don’t know what to do with myself.”

Cluster headaches affect around one in a thousand people in the UK.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Friday 5 May 2017.