Those weird head pains...

[Lulu54]

Someone suggested occipital neuralgia as a cause of the head pains we discuss here.  I found this abstract while researching the topic.  I thought it mght be of interest...

Lulu

from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18647183

De Santi L, Monti L, Menci E, Bellini M, Annunziata P.
Neurological and Behavioral Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.

Occipital neuralgia may be related to traumatic, compressive, or inflammatory injury to the occipital nerve or C2 radicular level and cervical spinal cord lesions. We report a series of 3 patients with definite relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) who experienced sudden occipital neuralgiform pain with or without diminished sensation in the cervical region and associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence of a new active or new T2-weighted demyelinating C2 cervical lesion. We suggest that sudden paroxysmal occipital pain may signal relapse of MS and cervical MRI with gadolinium should be considered; these patients show good clinical response to high-dose intravenous corticosteroids.

[steph74]

I'm pretty sure I have occipital neuralgia.  For me I think it's worse than the trigeminal neuralgia.  Charliy, I hope your head is feeling better soon.

[PastorDan]

Be careful not to confuse the occipital nerve with the optic nerve.

[Charley123]

Thanks for posting that.  I'll look into it as I still have a mystery inflammation in my head and eyes.  4 docs with 4 different opinions.  Charley