Surgery for Occipital Neuralgia?

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Full Question: I was diagnosed by my neurologist with Occipital Neuralgia two years ago. I have pain and burning in the back of my neck and where the skull and the spinal cord meet. I have a level of pain daily. I can function with pain some days, sometime I can be in bed ...

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Diana Lee
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 04:41 PM

Thank you for addressing this question. I was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia earlier this year. After doing nerve blocks, medial branch blocks and nerve ablation my remaining option is an occipital nerve stimulator, but I wondered about surgery when I came across an article about it.

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Patti W
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM

I was just diagnosed with occipital nueralgia along with haveing almost daily migranes. Does the occipital neuralgia ever go away? I have a prodedure called a nerve blcock done. It kinda made the headache go away but my neck is extremely sore it feels like I have a continous stiff neck. What else can I do?

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