Hello everyone, I have been suffering with head pain for 4 years through an accident. Had amnitriptelene, lyrica gabapentin not all at once! The pain clinic suggested nerve blocks, has anyone had expereince of these please...thanks.
Yes - had this for several years and it nearly drove me demented. Gave me excruciating pain daily in my neck and head.
Have had physio (laser therapy on the muscles at the base of the skull) and cortisone injections - both worked for a while (the injections longer than the physio). Tried reflexology (helped a bit) and acupuncture - which helped but didn't get rid of it. The GP gave me amytriptaline but I didn't want to be on drugs as I was hoping to get pregnant - but it did help.
The only 2 treatments that helped longer term (and I'm still having/taking them) are taking magnesium tablets (300mg per day)and vitamin B tablets. In adition to this I have has the Bowen Technique treatment which has been very good.
If you've had an accident I'm assuming your GP has discounted physical problems such as problems with the discs in your neck/spine ??
nerve blocks are pretty serious things to subject yourself too, I'd advice exhausting the other, complementary options first. a physio/chiro/osteo ought to consider cervical spinal mobilisation &/ traction; possibly manipulation depending on the details of the case.
I'm surprised at the use of laser therapy as it doesn't tend to go very deep (but should be fine if the thought was for the suboccipital muscles). Physio ultrasound or short-wave diathermy might be worth considering (please note, I don't know much about SWDT, so it may easily be contraindicated in the upper neck/skull).
Beyond those options acupuncture or TENS machines may help with neuralgic pains, TENS again being something your physio can discuss with you (though I wouldn't, as a rule, trust a chiro/osteo on that one; tend to be very sceptical of elctrotherapy modalities)
thank you
Just to say thank you for your input I am still considering, I am having acupuncture next week. Hope this will improve.
Yes - had this for several years and it nearly drove me demented. Gave me excruciating pain daily in my neck and head.
Have had physio (laser therapy on the muscles at the base of the skull) and cortisone injections - both worked for a while (the injections longer than the physio). Tried reflexology (helped a bit) and acupuncture - which helped but didn't get rid of it. The GP gave me amytriptaline but I didn't want to be on drugs as I was hoping to get pregnant - but it did help.
The only 2 treatments that helped longer term (and I'm still having/taking them) are taking magnesium tablets (300mg per day)and vitamin B tablets. In adition to this I have has the Bowen Technique treatment which has been very good.
If you've had an accident I'm assuming your GP has discounted physical problems such as problems with the discs in your neck/spine ??
Thank you for your reply I was interested about the magnesium tablets and vit B. Ihave tried acupuncutre as well, which did help. Also rosehip tablets. Did you get a burning pain from the nerve. Yes I feel demented too nothing seems to help long term.
Obviously no one can promise any thing, but the therapy that I do, EFT, (Emotional Freedom Technique) has had good results with nerve type issues. If you look at my website , you can see an Introduction to EFT on the EFT page. Along side weight loss I also specialise in Pain and Stress Relief.
EFT works on the meridians, the same as acuputure, but without using needles. I appreciate that you have had acupuncture, but with complimentary therapy its quite often the therapist can make a difference, not just the therapy. I did an EFT session the other day on a lady who had wrist tendon problems. She had had acupuncture, which did not make a difference, but after just a couple of minutes of EFT, she could feel things loosening up.
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Peter
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Aloe Vera
i perspire a great deal and if i go outside, even if its a slight reduction in temperature or breeze i get chronic head pain that is sometimes in my eyes. Pain killers helped a little but a hot water bottle with alo vera oil really does get rid of it. My mother also suffered with this.
Hi,
I have had a nerve block in my ankle, it was extremly painful and whilst I was assured that most people get upto 3 months relief from pain as a result of them, I had 1 day of pain relief from it. The only reason I agreed to have it was based on the fact I could get 3 months relief, so you can imagine how distressed I was when it didn't work.
I've also tried amnitriptelene and gabapentin, again, to no avail. The pain clinic tried some laser accupuncture on me, again, had 1/2 a day's pain relief, but it wore off. I am in constant pain (arthritic & nerve) and have tried various drugs/treatments/supplements etc... all to no avail, have come to believe that I've got this for the rest of my life.
All I can say to you is that if it feels right to you, do it - research as much as you can! I personally now am at the stage where I will try anything and have nothing to loose.
There is no sound evidence for long term if any benefit of these injections and they are potentially risky especially if not done correctly under xray guidance (another hazard). In fact the trial done locally looking at intermittent epidural injections in low back pain concluded that they were useless and actually an expensive and potentially dangerous waste of time.
This sort of nerve pain can be very debilitating but I would exclude all complementary and metaphysical routes before choosing this option.
Su-jok helps in many cases like this, I can send a simple scheme
to act on finger joints. To place a plant seed on several points is already
helpful, I recently had a case of high blood pressure when seeds worked
so efficiently that patient had to remove them for a while after having
carried seeds for just 1 day, as rapid blood pressure change made her
job difficult to do.
Hello everyone, I have been suffering with head pain for 4 years through an accident. Had amnitriptelene, lyrica gabapentin not all at once! The pain clinic suggested nerve blocks, has anyone had expereince of these please...thanks.
I take Lyrica for pain in the nerve endings in my gums, it is constant too like your head pain, it helps a little, on max dose at 600mg daily, but the pain still breaks through, I've been taking it only for months not years though, so my Neurolgist ordered up a CTScan for me which I had done this week, I was on Ampitrimplene also before it but it didnt work at all.
Not a lot of helpful info there, Im sorry.
Lordbless you.