Occipital Neuralgia Online Support Group

are both different? which one did/do you get the most?

my muscles hurt a lot, far more than any type of shooting nerve pain I might have, I did feel my occipital nerve sometimes send very dull flashes of pain up my head, but it's rare and mostly after seeing the chiro, or sleeping on a crappy pillow!

95% of my daily headache, back, neck pain is coming mostly from trigger points everywhere!

I wonder if these little fellas are the ones causing so many weird symptoms all over my upper body?

Post edited by: andrea77, at: 10/08/2010 06:57 AM

With ON I think its like which comes first the chicken or the egg? In our case it is the nerve or the muscles. They are all tied together and so if you have something like nerve pain which in my case came first, the mucles naturally try to "fix" the pain and spasms constant which means they are constricting and then you feel in so much pain you don't exercise, thus more constriciton. I learned this all because when I had trigger point therapy by the local "guru" he did release the pain from the muscles etc but like I have posted before if I did not keep going every 3 days at least my muscles just went back to trying to save that nerve that was in pain. As I sit here 1 1/2 weeks after my surgery I do not have that pain all over my shoulders neck etc ... my muscles are not in fix it mode. The pain I have post surgery is very minimal compared to the writhing pain I was in. I am not a muscle specialist but it just makes sense to me from my experiences.

I hope this helps

Chloe

oh cmiller, is so nice to hear you're pain free, at least from that kind of pain.... I perceive you as you starting a new life from now on!! you dont know the courage you give me to fight and to find a cure for this!

my nurse friend (who became my doctor over skype) so sad!! told me this is what puzzles her.... if I really have ON why dont I have nerve shooting pain? why most of my pain is muscle related?

either way it's been 1 year and half and so far I never really felt the shooting pain several times a day like u felt it

I feel more muscle chronic pain on my neck and upper back.... rarely any nerve discomfort!

andrea, I have more muscle tightness still than the shooty pain, but when I got off the Lyrica at the beginning of this year because I didn't think it was doing much besides making me a space cadet, but I was soooo wrong, the shooting pains were there so needless to say I got back on the Lyrica. So chicken or egg. I don't feel the nerve pain as much anymore but I have the tightness, spasms, etc. and mild shooting pains, everyday, but mainly in the morning and at night.

But in my opinion the nerve pain for me started the muscle pain/spasms/tension cycle from my head to my hips.

Hugs,

Patty