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What Causes Pain On Neck Which Shoots To The Head?

I start with very sharp pain that starts from the back of her neck and quickly shoots to the rest of her head within minutes - 10 pain level ... Lasts about 5-10 minutes and then she loses consciousness for about 2-3 hours ... During which she twitches a lot ... Takes her about 20-30 minutes to wake up out of it ... Headache level drops to like a 3-4 ... Her body is always in pain and she is very fatigued ... All the time ...
Wed, 17 Sep 2014
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hi welcome to health care magic. after going through your query my opinion is that the patient may have compression of nerve roots in the neck which leads to severe pain in the head but there might be chances of some pathology in the head (intracranial) for which MRI cervical spine and contrast enhanced CT is to be performed . visit neurologist and orthopaedician. hope your query is solved. welcome for further queries
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What Causes Pain On Neck Which Shoots To The Head?

hi welcome to health care magic. after going through your query my opinion is that the patient may have compression of nerve roots in the neck which leads to severe pain in the head but there might be chances of some pathology in the head (intracranial) for which MRI cervical spine and contrast enhanced CT is to be performed . visit neurologist and orthopaedician. hope your query is solved. welcome for further queries