A pain management doc Rx'd me a pump called PRONEX it is a pneumatic cervical traction pump that you place around the neck and pump up until you feel relief. It was quite expensive but the doc assured me it would relieve some pain by opening up all the compressed areas around my neck. So it came and OMG it was the most painful thing for occiptial neuralgia because it pumped up pushing near the mastoid bone. I went back really angry and she said "oh it can't hurt that much its soft rubber". That told me she had no clue about occipital neuralgia. Something else I had forgotten I had tried for this pain early on when I didn't understand it along with chiro, physio including trigger point therapy from a "guru" in the field who swore he could fix any nerve inpingement lol and deep tissue massage. Nothing actually relived the nerve pain but some did help the muscles. I also had an anterial discectomy (fusion with a plate) at C3-C4 to make sure it wasn't the ruptured disc that was causing my pain. I had 6 of my back teeth removed because I had read that old amalgum fillings could cause pain. Afterwards I spent 8 months in agony with the jaw bones slowly dying and splintering away. I would have to break away small pieces that peeled out and if I couldn't break them out they would get infected and ulcerate. I had to break out about 12 pieces and 4 times I had to go back to the dentist for him to remove them surgically. Eventually it was fixed by using Biotene for dry mouth wash, toothpaste and gel. The dentist said that because I was laying in bed with my occipital neuralgia not talking or doing much to help the saliva in my mouth regenerate the jaw bone did not heal. What a lot of agony for such a simple solution. I have been on my cocktail of neurontin, norco and zanaflex for two years to slow the electric shock type spasms. None of the meds worked alone, but together they seemed to help a little. GRRRRRRRRRR C Post edited by: cmiller, at: 02/14/2011 10:28 AM I am not a medical professional. I sufferered Occipital Neuralgia and had right and left occipital nerve release surgery in 2010.
Before surgery I would throw up almost daily from the severe dizziness and had severe light and sound sensitivity. I stayed in bed, curled up in the fetal position wishing I had the courage to kill myself. If I didn't take a cocktail of antiseizure, opiates and muscle relaxers I suffered hundreds of electric shock type pains per day in my head and had a constant migraine type pain 24/7 from july 2008. I lay grieving for my life that once was the friends who once were and the void in my future.
Right surgery 100% relief; left surgery, scarring grabbed a crown nerve and I had surgery again to relieve that june 2011. Surgery really helped but was left with daily migraines triggered by certain sound pitches making living in this noisy world very difficult |
