Pain in the neck up and around to eye...

Diane...yes, I have had that kind of pain.  When it happens it is unbearable and I have a massage therapist friend of mine massage my neck and shoulders where she always finds tight, hard knots.  The whole time she is doing it, I feel it in my eye.  It helps emmensley.  Funny about referred pain...it's hard to figure out where it originates.  I would have never thought the pain in my eyeballs was coming from my shoulder muscles!

huggies

Donna

Funny you ask. Just in the past month I have been dealing with this. I have never experienced headaches like this before. Now that I think about it I have had pain in the back of my eyes but this was much bigger than just eyes. In the past I always thought it was just my eyes and I had to start wearing glasses. In the recent ones I couldn't handle sight, sound or smell.

I get the same headache as well! I usually get it when I've been overdoing it and it is quite unbearable. I try to work the knots out myself and apply heat to the area. Rest helps a lot too.

Big Hugs and hope you feel better soon!

Chris (couldn't resist this guy. Always makes me smile!)

I have had that pain only a few times in my life, when I get the worst of my worse migraines. I used to just suffer, which took days to get rid of it, until a few years ago. I was at my doctor for something unrelated, and mentioned I was getting a really bad one. He filled up a needle with lidocaine (or something like) and shot it into the nerve that runs from your neck up over the occipital ridge/bump, and around the top to the eye. I could feel the immediate blockage of pain as my scalp went cool from the neck up. It felt so good I started to cry because I had been feeling so awful. I haven't needed it in about 3 years and darned if I can remember if it was definitely lidocaine, but ask your doc about this treatment. Now, though I have a bunch of migraine triggers, and know what to avoid, I will take one or two Maxalt dissolving pills, and that nips it.

Littleneck, It was Lidocaine. I just recently had the same injection and was going to suggest the same thing! It does sound like migraines Diane and I would ask your doctor to refer you to a headache specialist (that is where they can do the injections and also prescribe things to keep your pain more at bay). If you can get massage for the neck pain (ice might help too, it does me) and see a specialist for the headaches you should feel better soon.
The change in seasons with the up and down of the barometer makes my headaches worse.
Go get those appointments and tell them it is an emergency so you are seen asap. You will feel much better soon. That kind of pain cant go untreated.

If I pulled my hair out I wouldn't have any, but from time to time like now, my acute stressers are in overdrive. And my mother has always wanted to know why I twist my hair or just run it through my fingers....hmmmmm

HARA

Without beating a dead horse Diane, sounds like we have similiar neck/ head symptoms (minus disc problems) and treatment history.
However, when I got my shot at my pain clinic it wasnt the same as the nerve block that my neurologist gave me in his office. The shot at the pain clinic was supposed to be like a nerve block (dont recall what was in it) and it was about 4+ injections on either side of my spine, right below where your neck meets your back and he used an x-ray to guide him while he did it. It was the MOST HORRIBLE pain ever!!! He supposedly numbed the area first, but the needles felt like they were thick as drinking straws and he has to dig around to spread the nerve block...OMG I just tried to do deep breathing to get through it, but it took me a month to get over that trauma! So I KNOW what you mean. Never again!
Ironically, the multiple needle pokes that the neuro gave me in the base of my skull felt more like acupuncture needles and there was certainly no digging around! I bled a little during the 5 minute procedure (heads do that) and the next day that area felt a little bruised, but it solved my cycle of migraines long enough for me to calm the other muscles in my neck down. It wont cure it forever, but any help, even for a few months I think is worth it.
So long story short, I am starting to see that maybe the neurologists (like I have at a headache clinic or similiar) are more intuned to being gentle with us?? Pain clinics are good for alot of things, dont get me wrong I go to one myself...I am just feeling like: Pain Clinic= Big guns treatment first & Neurologist= Less invasive treatment (i.e.less painful).