pbear8

Yes I have something similar. I get headaches/migraines and have been for years.

Some of it is due to foods and some to the weather, but , like this morning, I woke up like you.

I wake up with a headache....sometimes accompanied by a suffy nose. While the pain is in my head I also have a neck ache. When I pull my head to the side it feels like an elastic band that can't stretch anymore! When a headache specialist examined me he found 'it' before I said anything to him to indicate this situation. There is 'somethign' in the base of my neck..can't remember what he said. But he kept insisting that I must have bumped my head , been in a car accident etc....He said that a high percentage of patients with migraines or headaches is caused by some kind of trauma.
I said 'no', I've neve been in an accident...but then remembered a very minor fender bender. I mean so minor that no one even got out of their car. BUT my body was thurst forward a bit and I think that I've been getting headaches on and off since that point...??


I am supposed to be doing these exercises recommended by a physiotherapist, but I haven't been doing them all of the time. They include an exercise to stretch those muscles on my neck/shoulder area.

If I go to massage , this helps for a day or so, then it's back to normal. So there is something in the massage that helps , but only temporarily.

Sorry to are going through this...it is awful!