I started getting Occipital Nerve blocks last month, and after the second one I started noticing I was off. Vision was blurring, felt feverish, memory worse than usual, bladder forsaking me, severe weakness upon waking, incredible neck pain goin into base of head. No headaches. YAY!!! No headaches.
I had a weird symptom where, while I was sleeping I felt a vibration travel up my spine to the base of my head. It resonated there and felt like it gained pressure, then it blew through the top of my head. My face went totally numb and prickly, my lips felt like they were asleep (all this happened as I felt like I had a high fever and it broke). I rolled over, noticing I was covered in sweat, my clothes were damp. This happened again on the other side. I rolled over again and it happened one more time. This was kind of alarming, I didn’t know if it was a seizure or what. I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night.
I left a message for my Neurologist in case this was something alarming that I should worry about, and they told me to see my PCP if I was feverish, it could be from my injections. I called them and set up and appointment for the next day. I wasn’t concerned with the fever it wasn’t getting higher than 99.5 and I told the doctor that when I saw them. Everything checked out fine, and that was that.
Overall, I am excited about the nerve blocks working, other than pain relief from my most common headache problems (muscles in my neck, pulling on the back of my head), I can lay on a pillow, wear a hat, wear my hair back without worrying about it causing a headache! This is 1 more step forward that I am extatic over.
I don’t know why I had all of the symptoms I was getting, but I will bring them on when I see the Neurologist this month.
