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What Causes Electrical Pulses Over Left Ear And On Scalp?
I recently started having electrical pulses over my left ear and into on scalp and head is sore...saw chiropractor and ent who think it is occipital neuralgia. Would prednisone help as over the countet pain aids are not working. ?.can stress cause this to come on and can it be a precursor to shingles?
Tue, 7 Feb 2017
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I understand your concern and agree with your doctor on the fact that occipital neuralgia could be the cause of these troubles.
I would not recommend taking steroids for this purpose.
An antiepileptic drug (topiramate, carbamazepine, gabapentine) would be more helpful in reducing the pain.
I would also recommend performing a brain MRI extended even in the first cervical spine vertebra, in order to exclude a possible irritating lesion in this level.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Kind regards, Dr. Aida
Thank you for asking on HCM!
I understand your concern and agree with your doctor on the fact that occipital neuralgia could be the cause of these troubles.
I would not recommend taking steroids for this purpose.
An antiepileptic drug (topiramate, carbamazepine, gabapentine) would be more helpful in reducing the pain.
I would also recommend performing a brain MRI extended even in the first cervical spine vertebra, in order to exclude a possible irritating lesion in this level.
Hope you will find this answer helpful!
Kind regards, Dr. Aida
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