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Base of Skull Pain

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Have you ever had pain and tenderness at the base of your skull, right before the neck start. In that center part.

I touched there doay and its really sore, my eyes are burning too, could be sinuses.

Could be my posture after being on the pc and not the right reading glasses on and leaning forward.

Not holding my head up straight can cause pain between your shoulder blades and chest pain. Wonder if that can cause pain also, Think I will do my neck strenghting exercises and see if that helps.

But its right above the neck in that triangle area that is so sore and tender.

Feel and see if you are tender and sore there also.
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Hey friends, found this pillow if anyone is interested. Suppose to help with pain and circulation. Can't hurt to check it out.
Runs 34.00 for a standard size pillow.
http://www.sweetspotpillow.com/gift_ideas.php
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Thanks everyone, I got busy and started stretching, touching my toes, working on my posture, not bending over at the keyboard putting my head forward.

I also turned my head from side to side, up and down then held my chin in. It all seemed to help

At least the pain isnt quite as bad. Going to try the rice bag for awhile but Inotice when I am sitting I have a tendency to lean my head forward and that doesnt help either.
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that sweet spot pillow sounds like it would work well. I must have 15 pillows in the house, I have bought and tried just about anything that I thought might help with my horrible neck pain. I tend to have to use about 3 different pillows during the night do to the level of pain in my neck.
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I have been having a lot of pain there but it only is really terrible when I lay down. Sometimes it hurts to move my head back and forth.

I thought maybe this might be related to the MRI I just got back saying I had a stroke. I finally get to see my neurologist tomorrow. It is so hard to tell what is just fibro and what isn't.
PeaceN2You
PeaceN2You
My chiro showed me that there is a whole tangle of nerves and blood vessels in that "hollow" at the base of your skull. She did something with pressure there when I had awful headaches after my last accident, and it helped to release everything in that area.

OK the meds are finally kicking in and I need to get to bed - hope you get some relief soon.
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the occiputal area is where i have to worsrt pain, it feels like someone jamed an ice pick through the base of my skull
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a couple of years ago, I had such bad neck pain and was treated for muscle spasm. It kept getting worse and I finally went to the er when I couldnt pick my head up off the pillow. I heard crunching noises and felt like muscles/tendons were ripping from my neck. Drs did cat scan and said it was from swollen glands.. they got so swollen that it was like gristle in chicken, stretchy layer on muscles and tendons that were operating my neck movement and that was what the ripping and crunching was from. They gave me an antibiotic an it healed in a week or so.
frankie1
frankie1
Yes I suffer from fibro and get severe neck shoulder and more recently head pain which feels as though it's also in my scull horrible feeling