For people focusing on surfing fitness, long lasting sexual fitness and drive too. Update your exercise routines, diet and routines. If it is occipital neuralgia it is often a mechanical cause leading to pressure on one of or multiple occipital nerves.
Sometimes that tension has built up over quite a long time and inflammation in the area builds with friction and pressure then one day you cross a threshold where it becomes neuralgia and it feels like it has come on all of a sudden.
But if you have been clenching jaw muscles that can change the position of your head on your neck and other tight muscles that can lead to that tilted head at the base which can cause pressure on the occipital nerves - pterygoid muscles, digastric, sternoclydomastoid then you are probably better off addressing them first. Hi lostdoggy, thanks heaps that that.
I've definitely had some ongoing issues in the neck area for a while now, and a big recent work stress event may have exacerbated it, it really has affected me physically. I dont believe there is any jaw clenching going on. This one 10 times worse and settled in it seems.
Theres drugs around that help with the nerve endings firing off the impulses that cause these issues, IE:- balacalava headache, eyes feeling like there trying to bug out of your head, pressure around your scalp etc. I've had mixed results with them, but if Dr wants you to try them go for it, it's a debilitating feeling..
