Help! I’ve been having chronic headaches and neck/back muscle pain for 5 months now and nothing is helping!
I’m a 35 yr. old mother of 2 little boys and just recently (5 months ago)started having chronic daily headaches along with intense neck/shoulder muscle tightening and pain. Initially it was just headaches and my PCP put me on Topamax 50 mg twice a day which seemed to help at first. I started the Topamax at Christmas time. Since then the headaches have returned along with the intense muscle tightening and pain in my neck and upper back/shoulders. I’ve tried the chiropractor which seems to have done nothing. My PCP wants to do a cervical spince x-ray, but since my husband does MRI’s for a living he did one on me today and didn’t seem to see anything out of the ordindary. I just don’t know where to go next. I don’t want to have to be dependent on a lot of different drugs. I’m wondering if I have fibromyalgia or something else wierd or if all this could just be from stress and tension. If anyone has any suggestions that would help I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
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go to the doctor plain and simple
if you get a good neck brace it will help. i am going through this very thing right now. i am scheduled for a spine exray. i want to get a neck brace to wear when things get bad. when you are tense, your neck takes a beating. if you are stiffed up you hold yourself a certain way and your neck gets it bad.
why don’t you go see a chiropractor….it might be something simple that they can correct…..there is also accupuncture…good luck!
I live with neck and shoulder pain 24/7. I started going to a Physical Therapist and it is much better after 4 trips. I will have 9 more sessions and then I’ll know if that was the ticket. Good luck
Fibromyalgia is a good possibility. My mother had it and experienced the same problems you seem to be having, but more severly. I’d suggest talking to your PCP about this and see what can be done. Also, until then, I can also suggest getting a heating pad and placing it in a comfortable chair and leaning back on it to see if it eases the muscle pain. I hope you feel better soon. Good luck.
Go see a neurologist. I know a seriously fantastic Dr. He is in Detroit, MI but he is so good that he sees people from all over the place. I promise you that he will solve your pain. Feel free to email me and I will give you his name. I work with neurosurgeon’s for a living and I know the good ones. He is the best. He loves a challange and everyone I have ever sent to him, or heard of going to him have been cured of their ailments. Dont go see 50 Dr’s and get 50 diagnosis… Please contact me!
i have the same problem but i decided not to take my prescribed ibuprofin because i fear i will eventually get a stomach ulcer. try a heating pad and put it on the problem area a few minutes a day, 3-4 times daily. also ensure you are sleeping correctly. i sleep with a rolled towel under my neck for additional support. it helps to reduce unnecessary strain on my neck while sleeping. also, i’m not sure how old your children are but pick them up only when absolutely necessary. their body weight will put additional strain on your neck/back. lastly, try to stretch the area a couple of times a day after the heating pad.
good luck.
For chronic diseases follow Alternate System way.
If you yield dark yellow urine you are drinking less water. Consume water to yield pale yellow urine.
If you are in cold country use all warm things.
Hot water bath will help if coughing.
Pl try cold water bath if in hot country.
Massage with Sun bath is good thing, pl try.
Pl try simple acupressure given below for immediate relief.
If it fails you will have to go for Acupuncture.
There is hardly any medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for RA, OA, Back ache, Ear ache/ringing and almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.
Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES, Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy, BODY CONSTITUTION etc are their causes.
None of them can be treated with medicine.
Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.
Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.
Pain killers don’t treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.
The useless drugs have tremendous power of side effects like liver/kidney failures, ulcer, inflammation of intestines and lot more.
Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, tension, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods, SMOKING and alcohole.
Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help if cough is not there.
But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves’ juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.
If it is acute pl search a painful point (with round tipped pen/jimmy) 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.
For forehead/eye pain the points are in front of nails on the finger tips or 3-7 mm below.
It may disappear naturally too.
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i have the same type of pain your describing. nothing OTC would help so my Dr gave me on firocet its not a narc. drug but for headaches its great it also helped my shoulder and neck pain. ask your Dr and see if this would help you.
hope you feel better soon.