Why did Steriod medication not work for your occipital neuralgia--will chiropractic help?

Answer 1

If the steroids did not work there are a couple of possibilities:

- First, how was your occipital neuralgia diagnosed? Occipital neuralgia implies damage to the nerves that innervate the dermatomes of your head (occipital nerves), from trauma, tumor, etc. That being said, the first possibility is that you were misdiagnosed. Is it possible that you are simply sufering from tension-type headaches or another syndrome that has similar symptoms? Steroids may not be effective for tension-type headaches, and this might explain why they didnt work. If this is the case then chiropractic can almost certainly help, as it is very effective for tension-type headaches.

- Second, steroids do not always work, and you may speak to your medical doctor about a nerve block instead. If you want to avoid drugs then you may consider trying a chiropractor even if the diagnosis was correct. There is almost no risk to chiropractic treatment and it has been shown repeatedly in the literature to be an effective pain reliever. Give it a try, you can aways try something else again if it doesn't work.