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Suggest Remedies For Severe Neck Pain

Posted on Wed, 5 Apr 2017

Question: I have severe neck pain because of which am getting pain at the back of my head. Most of the days am taking pain killer - Combiflame and for head ache am taking Vasograin. 2 Yrs back I consulted the doctor for neck pain. I took MRI for that. He told not major issue in the neck and asked to do some neck exercise. But Still am getting this neck pain. since am working In front of the system for the whole day, I could not able to take care of the posture. I thought of putting collar on my neck. Please advice

Answered by Dr. Mahaveer Patil (19 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
cervical collar will help

Detailed Answer:
Hi dear XXXXXXX

Thank you for posting the question.
I have gone through your query in detail.

Any knid of neck pain that radiates to the back of the head most probably results from a inflammed nerve in the neck region ( neuritis) or muscle (muscular tendinitis).

This may occur due to using a pillow below the neck while sleeping or working in front of the system for prolonged periods of time.

You can use a cervical collar surely for this.It has to be used during the working hours and removed intermittently (remove for 10 minutes every hourly). Stretching exercises of neck in these 10 minutes can help.

Take anti inflammatory and methycobalamin / pregabalin tablets.

Applying local analgesic gel followed by hot fomentation will be helpful.

These measures should definitely help you.

If it doesn't help,then you should get a recent MRI done again to rule out a slipped disc in the cervical vertebra.

Considering the history of migraine that you have, the symptoms at present are not classical of a migraine attack.

I hope the answer was useful.

Feel free to ask me any doubts that you may have regarding this question.
I will be happy to help you.

Thank you.

Kind regards and Best wishes.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Nagamani Ng

Follow up: Dr. Mahaveer Patil (3 days later)

Thank you for your prompt reply. Is it possible to give the detailed prescription of the tablet and gel, so that I can buy in medicals and the colar.

Answered by Dr. Mahaveer Patil (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
take the following medicines

Detailed Answer:
I am sorry,but a detailed prescription is not allowed on this platform.

You can take Tb. ibuprofen or tramadol with paracetamol for pain-as and when needed.

Tb methycobalamin/pregabalin combination- once daily

Local diclofenac gel to be applied locally.

Cervical soft collar-as per your neck size.

Thanks

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Kampana