How do I relieve pain at the base of my skull?
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Chop your head off just below where the pain is.
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It could be a cluster headache. They tend to center themselves on the top of the skull, and they are FAR more painful than a tension headache (usually men get these, but women can). If the pain continues, you ought to see a doctor. Cluster headaches can be caused by anything from stress to carbon monoxide poisoning, so it's best to get checked out.
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Take medicine and push your finger on the top of your bone that goes inbetween your eyebrows if you know where I'm talking about, its inbetween your eyes, just do that and tell yourself it will make your headache go away, my great grandpa taught me that and it always works with me......
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Ohh my dear. i had jaw surgery this summer and let me tell you, imagine that pain times 100000. But..after i had the exact same problem with the tightening bands. What i found helpful is buying one of those beanie heat things and tying it around my head. it helps the muscles relax. the headaches can be helped with ice. try to find someone who has had their wisom teeh out and ask if they have one of those jaw ice pack things that wrap around your head. and of course IBprofin helps too.  don't worry they will go away within a few days. its just like getting your braces tightened. but otherwise theres really no way to deal with it, except just to deal with it. i got lucky because i had vicodin. just think that you are lucky to still be able to eat solid foods. i was on a liquid/soft food diet for 4 and a half months. good luck!!
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at the back of your head at the top of your spine there is a groove  .this is where all the nerve endings are, try massaging that spot also move your fingertips over your scalp and feel for some sore spots, massage those too as these are the trigger points for whatever ails your back and shoulders
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1 sachet should do the job. ANy more than that and it can give you a head ache. Dont drink alcohol though as it weakens the effect xx
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I've had that it hurts. Try these things to help easy the pain.\n\n1. Asprine\n2. Hot bath,in salt. Rest in the bath about an hour.\n3. Heat pad,on your neck and lay down until your neck is better.\n4. Go to the mall,find a water therapy tank. Pay as much as you want to be in there for. You'll be able to move your neck again after the treament.\n5. If all those all don't help it,then go to the hospital for some help.\n\nI hope this helps out and feel better.
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take some ibprofen (sp?) and lay down and go to sleep. also i have this thing full of rice that u warm up and put it on ur head.. it feels soo good. my headache normally lasts 30 minutes..always unless its alot less. good luck and i hope u feel better!!
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HEADACHE:HOT BLACK TEA BREWED WITH MINT. MASSAGE UR templeS WITH CHINA BALSAM FOR 5 MIN.\nSORE THROAT:WHAT HELPS MOST OF ALL AND QUIKLY IS 1)gargling it with  brewed camomile (1 tablespoon for 1 glass of hot water. Leave it for 30 min to ingrain than strain it thro a sieve and gargle ur throat or 2)1 glass of not very hot water,1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda,  1/3 teaspoon  of salt and 2 drops of iodine mix it and gargle ur throat 3 times a day. After 2 days u will feel comfortable
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Try tennis balls in a sock and roll on them as described in the post about the basketball. It might help to loosen things up. \nOR ice and heat. \nOR neck patches or icyhot. \nOr a hot Epsom salt bath. \nStretch gently. \nRest your head on a wall often, especially when in class or working on the computer for long periods of time.
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You feel a headache coming on, so you reach for a pain reliever. Or maybe you take pain medication in advance — even every day — to stave off frequent headaches. After all, that's what pain relievers are for, right?\n\nThink again.\n\nPain relievers offer quick relief for occasional headaches. But there's a limit. If you find yourself taking pain medication more than two or three days a week, you may actually be contributing to your headaches rather than easing them. It's a cycle known as rebound headaches.\n\nThe cycle starts when you take too much headache medication — more than the label instructs or your doctor prescribes. Soon, your body adapts to the medication. You may not even realize that you've been dosing yourself too often until you miss a day and your head starts to hurt again — sometimes more intensely than before.\n\nThe only way to stop rebound headaches is to reduce or stop taking the pain medication that's causing them. It's tough, but your doctor can help.\n\n\nNEXT: Signs and symptoms  ARTICLE TOOLS \n Print this section | All sections \n Larger type \n \n\n    more information     Rebound headaches — also called medication overuse headaches — tend to occur every day, sometimes waking you in the early morning and continuing throughout the day. The pain may be most severe at first, when the medication begins to wear off.\n\nSometimes, a rebound headache causes dull, achy pain. In other cases, the pain may be throbbing or pounding.\n\nYou may notice other signs and symptoms as well, including:\n\nNausea \nAnxiety \nRestlessness, irritability and difficulty concentrating \nMemory problems \nDepression Nearly any pain reliever can contribute to rebound headaches. But some medications are more likely to lead to rebound headaches than are others.\n\nSimple pain relievers. Common medications such as aspirin, acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others) may contribute to rebound headaches — especially if you exceed the recommended daily dosages. \nCombination pain relievers. Over-the-counter pain relievers that contain a combination of caffeine, aspirin and acetaminophen (Excedrin, others) are common culprits. This group also includes prescription medications such as Fioricet, Fiorinal and Esgic, which also contain the sedative butalbital. \nMigraine medications. Various migraine medications have been linked with rebound headaches, including ergotamine (Ergomar, others) and triptans (Imitrex, Zomig, others). Interestingly, the ergot dihydroergotamine appears to have a lower potential for leading to this problem. \nOpiates. Painkillers derived from opium or from synthetic opium compounds include combinations of codeine and acetaminophen (Tylenol with Codeine No. 3 and No. 4, others). These can lead to rebound headaches as well. \nDaily doses of caffeine — from your morning coffee, your afternoon soda, or any pain reliever or other product containing this mild stimulant — may fuel rebound headaches as well. Read product labels to make sure you're not wiring your system with more caffeine than you realize.\n\nTrouble sleeping Anyone who has a history of migraine headaches, tension-type headaches or other chronic headaches is at risk of developing rebound headaches from the overuse of pain relievers.\n\nRebound headaches aren't typically an issue for people who use pain medications on a daily basis to treat conditions such as arthritis\nTreatment\nTo break the cycle of rebound headaches, you'll need to restrict how much pain medication you use. Depending on what drug you've been taking, your doctor may recommend stopping the medication right away or gradually reducing the dose until you're taking the drug no more than twice a week.\n\nStopping pain medication isn't easy. Expect your headaches to get worse before they get better. You also may experience withdrawal symptoms such as nervousness, restlessness, nausea, vomiting, insom
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proper posture while on the computer, along with ergonomically correct equipment, and stretching every 10 or so minutes. assuming the pain has already occured, try resting (sometimes thats enough to lessen it), massage, or a hot compress.
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hmm, it sounds like 3-4 hours, that would be when you might have eaten something?  What are you eating?  It could be something you are chewing or crunching that is irritating your TMJ.  The TMJ ones I get are similiar to migraines but not as bad and pain meds don't touch them.  \n\nFeel around the jaw and joint, do you feel any hard spots like spasmed muscles?  Anything hurt?  Do your temples hurt?  \n\nTry warm, moist heat on the temples and jaw area.  Also inside your mouth way back behind your upper molars or if you have wisdom teeth, there is a muscle that you can press on like a trigger point that helps.  I get alot of pain in my forehead too, another thing that helps is to rub something with menthol on the forehead and jaw area and right where the jaw line meets the ears, it helps relax the muscles and deaden pain.\n\nhope that helps.
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Ouch! Nerve pain like that is just awful. If you haven't experienced it, you can't explain it to someone else. It is so intense! When I was in my forties, I wrenched my lumbar vertebrae helping a service man move a 300-lb. gas cylinder. I even heard it when my back went out. I went to a chiropractor, and he cleared that out in ONE visit. Until you find a way you are willing to try, use ice to reduce the inflammation. When you do that to your back, everything gets swollen up and pushed tightly together. The ice pack makes the muscles contract and open up inside so all the parts can move again. This tightening up is called "splinting," and is a natural mechanism your body uses to protect that painful place in your back. The ice pack should be kept on twenty to twenty-five minutes per hour, possibly four times during the day. You will notice it getting much easier to bear. The ice pack also tells your brain to send more blood to that area, which helps to flush all that congestion away from the sore spot. I strongly urge you to see a chiropractor. In ONE visit, you will be able to immediately find relief to a very considerable extent from what has probably been driving you up the walls. The problem with this kind of pain is that it is relentless and does not stop while you are trying to sleep at night. If you begin to miss your sleep cycle, you will get strung out, crabby and irritable, and that just adds to it. So - if you are not keen on chiropractors, go to your family doctor instead, but do not sit home, in agony and immobilized in a chair. That would be just too stressful. Call a best friend to drive you to and from, if that would help you. Reach out. I am hoping others in this column at Yahoo! Answers will also offer you ways to get better really quickly. Please accept this huge load of love and support from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A. (I am 63 years old.)
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You can go to a doc.  and have it either frozen off or burned off.  In either case, that will hurt like hell at first, be uncomforatable for awhile, then feel better later.
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I recommend checking your pillows.  If you are sleeping on too many then your head gets jacked up all night and can cause stress and pulling on the muscles at the back of your head giving you a tension headache.  Get a very flat pillow.  Roll up a medium sized towel and tie it so it stays rolled up.  Place the towel on your bed and place the pillow over the top of it.  Lay on it so the towel falls right in the curve of your neck.  This will allow the proper support for the curve of your neck and help prevent tension headaches.  You can experiment with the size of the towel roll to find out what size is right for your particular neck.  You will need to sleep on your back for this to work.\n\nYou can try hanging your head over the edge of your bed to facilitate a curve in your neck as well.  Do not do this if you have high blood pressure or other balance problems unless you first consult a professional.  Don't do this for more than 3 minutes.  It will help stretch out your spine.  \n\nIt could also be due to grinding your teeth in your sleep.  See a Chiropractor.  They will be able to help you determine if it is your posture while sleeping that is causing the headaches.  I can say from personal experience, I rarely get headaches anymore from sleeping (I used to get them all the time) since I get adjusted regularly now.  I have also helped many patients with the same problem.
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Tonic water can work wonders on niggly headaches - just a glass of it when you feel it coming on and the quinine helps to reduce the aching, if not eliminate it altogether.  \n\nIt might also be worth while trying to alter your posture - have you started a new job, or got a new piece of equipment in the last 18 months that's making you sit differently?  Some simple back exercises or a session of yoga each week might provide a little gentle relief.  \n\nAlso worth considering are homeopathy, the Bach flower remedies (rescue remedy is the best known, but there are others too), lavender oil in an oil burner, and the Flower Essences by Jan de Vries.  Pop into your local health food shop and see what they can recommend.  Tension Tamer tea is a good all-rounder that'll help you relax and may be beneficial too.  \n\nIt might be worth thinking about whether it could be linked to your hormones too - I sometimes get random headaches at certain times of month, and Evening Primrose Oil is very helpful for regulating hormones (and it's good for your skin too!).\n\nAnd don't worry about it, it's unlikely to be something so serious at your age and the stress will probably just make your head ache worse!\n\nTake care of yourself...