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(Message started by: jhgnopain on May 19^th, 2006, 2:09am)

Title: Pain Radiating Down My Neck And Back
Post by jhgnopain on May 19^th, 2006, 2:09am

I am curious to know how common it is for one to have a nagging pain/burning sensation down my neck and back on my affected side that never seems to entirely go away--even after to beast has quieted. I started a cycle about a month or so ago and up until the last week had mainly phantoms. I have dealt with the beast since I was 14 and am now 40. My cycles seem to happen about every two years with sometime annual visits. Will massaging help this or make it worse??? I can't recall from previous cycles? Thanks!

Title: Re: Pain Radiating Down My Neck And Back
Post by Redd715 on May 19^th, 2006, 9:58am

I've borrowed this from another site and you may find this helpful for some understanding.

Quote:

"The neck pain can overshadow all the other symptoms of CH."

http://tinyurl.com/oqq4m

Paroxysmal neuralgic upper cervical pain attacks: The lower syndrome
of cluster headache.

Verslegers WR, Pickut BA, De Deyn PP.

Department of Neurology, AZ Jan Palfijn, Lange Bremstraat 70, 2170
Merksem, Belgium.

We present a group of seven patients with a lower syndrome (LS) of
cluster headache (CH). Seventy-three newly diagnosed patients with
CH were subjected to a 9 years follow-up study; 66 patients were
classified as upper syndrome (US) and only seven patients (9.5%) as
LS. We focus on the characteristics of this group of seven patients
with LS and compare them with existing literature. The seven cases
with LS illustrate the wider spectrum of clinical manifestations
that can occur in CH, namely infraortibal symptoms or these outside
the territory of the trigeminal branches such as the upper cervical
region or the craniocervical margin. The duration of the attacks can
last more than 180min. The attacks show a circadian/circannual
regularity and a stereotypic pattern of symptoms in most of the
patients. The severity and duration of the attacks may increase over
the years. The neck pain can overshadow all the other symptoms of
CH. Because of the regularity of the attacks at particular times of
day or night in some patients, even abortive therapy can be used as
prevention when taken some hours before the suspected attack. We
hypothesize that some patients with LS may represent an anatomical-
functional variant of a primary chronic neurovascular pain disorder
originating from the central nervous system, with possible
involvement of the hypothalamus and the trigeminovascular (TV)
system, with inputs from the cervical roots C(0)-C(2). Clinicians
should consider CH when pain attacks are located outside the
orbitotemporal regions, but fulfil the other diagnostic criteria for
CH and should try ergotamine, oxygen, sumatriptan, verapamil,
steroids or even combinations in these patients.

Pegg

Title: Re: Pain Radiating Down My Neck And Back
Post by unsolved1 on May 19^th, 2006, 10:40am

Holy sh*t Pegg! That's one hell of a pain in the neck!

UNsolved