Anita Wiseman knows pain. She's given birth and endured a brain aneurism. None of these, she says, comes close to a cluster headache.

"I was always viewed as a drama queen, like I couldn't handle pain. It's just a headache, that's what a lot of people thought," says Wiseman, a substitute teacher from Los Lunas. "Then I had a brain hemorrhage. That was a whole different kind of pain, but I handled it. I don't think I ever cried when the aneurism burst. But a cluster headache can have me rolling on the floor in tears."

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