I do get a stiff neck as well. I use ice to help. i just put some ice in a baggy, wrap it in a towel and then lay down and place it on your neck. I usually fall asleep with that and it does help. I sure hope you feel better soon. Gentle hugs.

Yes I sure do. In fact, my migraines usually start from a tight knot of muscles in my neck and shoot up over the head to the eye. A heating pad really helps for me as well, along with a nap. I try to stay away from muscle relaxers because they're so strong.

The stiff neck for me is one of the first signs of a migraine coming. It seems even the skin is sore to touch at that time. Never tired relaxants. See what your doctor says. I have tried a chiropractor a few times . no help. Best wishes.

I used to take naproxen for migraines which worked quite well for the vast majority of the time. My kidney function now prevents my being able to take muscle relaxers although I do at time take liquid advil which helps if I take it soon enough. I find it works better than the percacet which I take for kidney pain.

Kelley, I am sorry to hear about your kidney issues. My sister is at 15% but is doing pretty good. I can't imagine having migraines on top of kidney issues.

Perhaps I should try the Naproxyen. Thanks for the tip.

Sometimes my neck pain is worse than my migraines.
I take Amrix ER, it is a wonderful muscle relaxer that is new (a bit expensive, but does not leave me drowsy in the morning). I take it at 6:00pm every night or as needed.
I just started taking Amrix in October, and it has cut my migraines down by 40%.

I take Sklexin, which does help relax the neck muscle, but I can't seem to completely kill the pain once the syndrome has begun. I have to avoid the anti inflammatories because they give me a sick stomach...the trade off isn't worth it for me. I am just plain confused anymore with this disorder!

I also wanted to add that I tried 3 other muscle relaxers before I found Amrix. The other 3 did nothing for me, so it's trial and error. And, what works for somebody might not work for someone else.

I can't take the naproxen because it usually makes my migraine worse so my dr prescribed Tramadol. It's a muscle relaxer. It works really well and yes it is strong but when I am in that much pain I need something strong to relieve it.

Thanks for bringing this up. I too have neck pain associated with migraine, hadn't really put that together before.
Thank you

I will get neck pain as well and it goes right up into my skull. I have muscle relaxers, cyclo something or other. But what seems to do the trick is naproxen followed about 2 hours later by 2 XStr tylenol. I have to be careful as I have GERD as well and naproxen will give me a nasty stomach ache if taken 2 days in a row. I use it for my arthritis pain as well but very sparingly. It's cheap and as effective as anything I've used with only that one rather nasty side effect to work around.

i used to have this till i started taking istonix a friend turned me on to it.. opc 3 if you would like more info contact me off list. I used to get migraines and soar neck so bad used to put me in bed for days.. I too have kidney pain sometimes it was bad.. fibromialgia to boot.. all this went away...

I too have a lot of stiffness in my neck related to my migraines. I take 40mg of flexeril every night because of an old neck injury or I'll wake up with a stiff and sore neck, and when I feel a migraine coming on I also take some and it helps quite a bit.

My migraines usually begin with neck pain as well. I used to take Imitrex alone but it took too long to work on my really bad headaches. My neuro doc recently let me try Treximet. It is a mixture of 85 mg of Imitrex and 500 mg Naproxin, the way it is formulated the Naproxin is time-released and works the best for me so far. If you have tried Imitrex and can tolerate it, ask your doctor about Treximet. Before I got Treximet I used to sometimes take a naproxin along with my Imitrex but it never worked quite the same as this new med. If you take another migraine med, please check with your doctor to make sure you can mix Naproxin with it

Yep. I've had a constant stiff neck for about a month now and it has caused constant migraines. I usually take flexaril for the tightness and excedrin migraine and it goes away but my doctor for IBS is not allowing me to use anymore excedrin. He is only suggesting I use extra strength tylenol or a pain killer like Loratab or Vicodin. I tried the tylenol and it does nothing for me, I think I took it for so long as a kid it just doesn't work any longer and I hate taking the pain killers because they knock me on my butt but I'd rather be without the pain :(