Occipital Neuralgia Online Support Group

I woke up with an excruciating headache on 12/15/09 and it hasn't gone away since. Finally diagnosed with ON in Jan. of 2011. Had ON surgery with Dr. Ducic on March 16, 2011.

I woke up with an excruciating headache on 12/15/09 and it hasn't gone away since. Finally diagnosed with ON in Jan. of 2011. Had ON surgery with Dr. Ducic on March 16, 2011.

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

Teah

Sometimes the pain from O.N. can make you want to crawl in a corner and scream to the top of your lungs! So I've learned to cherish the good days when I don't feel like I have an ice pick stuck in my head!

As the group leader I am happy to give you my opinion on issues, but please remember I not a medical profession, just another suferer of ON.

Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restrains.

Same Nightmare, Different Day