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(Message started by: Radha on Feb 24^th, 2006, 12:39am)

Title: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by Radha on Feb 24^th, 2006, 12:39am

anyone get pain where the external carotid artery is located in the neck on the same side of the headache? i know i dont have any kind of arterial disease, but the pain i get there is bad and comes with headache, just wanted to know how common this artery pain is, and if the imitrex helps to make it go away for you, thanks
radha

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by vietvet2tours on Feb 24^th, 2006, 12:19pm

Yes my neck hurts during cycle but try oxygen as your first abortive. Potter

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by mynm156 on Feb 24^th, 2006, 1:37pm

No When at its worst it goes down into my jaw. Those are my real KILLERS!!!

Good Vibes

MYNM156

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by kcopelin on Feb 24^th, 2006, 3:31pm

Yeah, actually that has happened to me. The doctors checked for blockage-none. Just one more possible benefits of clusterheadaches ::)
PFDAN
kathy

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by Dragnlance on Feb 24^th, 2006, 4:44pm

eye, ear, and jaw. So far, at this time, I dont have any pain any lower down. I have enough right where it is, thank you

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by nani on Feb 24^th, 2006, 4:49pm

For me, I'm not sure it's the artery or everything alongside the artery. During a high level hit, I hurt everywhere this pic highlights.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/nani36/trigempic.jpg

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by karrie35 on Feb 24^th, 2006, 5:23pm

I feel like my neck is swollen during a high level hit.
When I hang my head down especially.

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by Bob P on Feb 24^th, 2006, 5:56pm

Yes. Also know I don't have artery disease since my neuro thought he heard a bruitt there but the MRI showed nothing wrong.

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by Radha on Feb 24^th, 2006, 11:54pm

thanks so much for your replies, at least it is reassuring to know i am not the only one getting this pain in upper side of the neck right below the ear, and i get bad jaw pain too, and i really doubt i have any blockage or problem like that, i guess theres nothing to do about this, just another part of this nightmare!!
radha

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by The_CHosen_One on Feb 25^th, 2006, 1:16am

I too have the Carotid Artery pain, and I've been checked for everything...tests up the wazzu for over 2 yrs (I wind up donating about 2 pints/week for the numerous blood tests), and as best as my team of DR's can tell, it's all part of the benefis of the disease. I would also like to add that I too feel the pain EVERYWHERE shown in the pic...Eye, Brain, Jaw, Neck, and even Chest...all on the same side...and it has remained on the right side for just short of 800 consecutive days now...and yet I have SOMEHOW managed to survive...So just hang in there and know that YOU'RE NOT ALONE...

Sincerely,
The CHosen One

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by tanner on Feb 28^th, 2006, 3:01pm

yes always. it was one of the first things that made my (long time ago) neuro sit up and take notice.

i had the fun test where they stick a needle into your artery at the groin level and then follow the little camera thing all the way up through the heart up the carotid into your brain and then they say " Okay this is going to be a little warm". just then two sumo type male nurses jump on your shoulders and neck area so you cant move your head and they squrt liquid lava into your head...........of i forgot one extra giant falls across your legs (i guess to keep you from kicking anyone).

to this day i don't know exactly what that fun little test showed them but it sure was the closest thing to being abducted by aliens i have ever experienced!!!!!!

............tim

Title: Re: anyone get carotid artery pain with headache?
Post by DisneyRN on Mar 4^th, 2006, 4:11pm

I do get the Carotid pain, but found it was worse when I used Imitrex. Dr. won't perscribe it for me now. Oxygen @10 liters definately helps...but, not always a sure thing during a real headbanger.

A pain management DR. gave me Neurontin for chronic back pain (and rhumatoid arthritis), and I found that a side effect of the Neurontin was far less Migraines and Clusters. And it has helped the Raynaud's Phenomenon in my hands and feet.

There have been several times where I have run out of the Neurontin, and have had onsets of Migraine/Clusters and the Raynaud's. I don't know if this is due to sudden withdrawal of the drug, or if I was going to get the Clusters, anyway. The stress factor when I run out of my meds is quite high now that I know how my body reacts. This has happened enough times now where I know it is not coincidence.[/i]