Is It Occipital Migraine: Or Migraines?

Your occipital migraine may be due to your occipital nerve and your migraine originates from that.

The symptoms are so close to resembling a migraine, many get diagnosed as chronic headaches. Because chronic headaches are a common symptom that come from several causes. Occipital neuralgia is often misdiagnosed at first, most commonly as tension headache, or a migraine leading to treatment failure, or addiction.

And if you get the wrong diagnose you could go for years being treated for migraines, instead of occipital migraine, and not having relief.

No one wants that."To the right is something to help with your nausea."

Look for a good headache clinic that offers as many options as possible for the treatment of migraines, and different types of headaches, and migraines.

Find out if they offer invasive surgery. If you have migraines that don't respond at all to preventives. That could be a sign that you are not receiving the right treatment, or you need the big guns called out.

Another symptom of the occipital nerve is the eyes being sensitive to light, especially when headaches occur.

We already have pages on food triggers, pages on magnesium supplements to manage your migraines, and pillows to help your migraines. All can be found in our sitemap.

And we have also mentioned that you can never educate yourself on migraines, and headaches to much.

Books on migraines is one of the best places to start. I read them.

If for no other reason you can question your doctor about what he prescribes for you, and questions about his methods of giving you occipital migraine relief.

Occipital neuralgia is when damage has been done to the occipital nerves.

And this pain can come from the lesser, and greater occipital nerves. As we stated in the last page, pain can come from a injury to these nerves.

Reasons that can give you migraines that stem from the occipital nerve.

# (1)Trauma, such as a blow to the neck, and whiplash is common for producing this pain.

#(2)Physical stress on the nerve, neck contraction over, and over, and extending the neck out can irritate these nerves.

#(3)Another cause for the pain is vascular compression.

The greater occipital nerve is used for nerve blocks.

Headache specialists use this one for many different headache syndromes from cervicogenic headaches, occipital neuralgia,and migraines to cluster headaches.

So your doctor can treat the same nerve without knowing exactly what you suffer with. The symptoms can mimic each other.

But knowing "exactly" the head pain you have, will help in the all around treatment of your headaches.

You can have chronic daily migraines, but also have the same type of pain when something has damaged the occipital nerves. You could have daily headaches from these nerves.

One of my wife's headache specialists would call it daily chronic migraines, while another said she had tension headaches with migraines, so go figure.

On our other page we told of the last visit to a different headache specialist. In a half hour he had it narrowed down to three possibilities.

Although she had give her symptoms to each one, the rest just said she was suffering from migraines. But no preventives has help.

Can it be out of the other two possibilities one of them does the trick? We'll know pretty soon.

What if he is right, and she has suffered all this time because of a wrong diagnose.

My point is, arm yourself with knowledge on migraines, and headaches.

Occipital neuralgia, also known as C2 neuralgia, is a medical condition characterized by chronic pain in the upper neck, back of the head and behind the eyes.

Once the right diagnose has been made there are several methods to treat this, such as local nerve blocks, peripheral nerve stimulation, steroids, rhizotomy, phenol injections, antidepressants, and occipital cryoneurolysis.

If these aren't effective you can have a decompression on the nerve to help with the pain, or implant a nerve stimulator under the skin if all else fails.

An occipital migraine can be helped if the right treatment for this headache is applied.

But like I said above, ask for the headache clinics options as what they offer. Occipital migraine is diagnosed fifty two percent of the time as migraines, twenty percent as sinus headaches, and twenty percent as cluster headaches.

Headaches can be so complicated that many doctors may not distinguish between one, and another.

This is the reason it's all important to find a very good headache specialist. One that is highly recommended.

Get the right treatment, because you deserve it. Don't give up.

More information on occipital neuralgia, and treatments.

On our last page we discussed occipital neuralgia, and our next page we talk about epilepsy and migraine.

Get the right diagnose!! All the best

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