What's the pain in the back of your head?

If the symptoms of pain in the back of the head are paroxysmal, it may be great occipital neuralgia. Generally, the duration of pain varies from a few seconds to a few minutes. The general pain of the patient is tingling or throbbing pain. It is mainly symptomatic treatment. The commonly used drugs are carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine and phenytoin sodium. If the symptoms are persistent, it may be caused by cervical spondylosis, including cervical disc herniation, cervical curvature straightening and cervical osteogenesis. The patient is prone to cervical shoulder muscle contraction and spasm, which can involve scalp nerves and vessels, generally manifested as pain in the back of the head, and may also show cervical shoulder muscle soreness and discomfort. The main treatment for cervical spondylosis includes neck muscle massage treatment, traction treatment and surgical treatment. If the patient's blood pressure is too high, it may also show that blood pressure should be monitored. When the blood pressure of middle-aged and elderly people rises, calcium ion antagonists are generally taken orally. The commonly used drugs are amlodipine. Young people can take irbesartan and candesartan orally. If the patient is a primary headache disease, such as tension headache can also be shown, the disease generally occurs in young adults, mainly manifested as the back of the head and the top of the head, forehead and temporal show pain, soreness, dull pain, most patients with mental tension and stress related, mainly symptomatic treatment commonly used drugs are ibuprofen, indomethacin, naproxen and acetaminophen.