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Is There Such A Thing As A Herniated Disc Migraine?

by Rena Sherwood

Not a good time for crash test dummiesEver get an question in your head that you can’t find the answer to and it starts to drive you crazier than if you had “Achey Breaky Heart” stuck in your head for a week? (Can you tell I’m still taking the mystery generic allergy medicine I taked about yesterday?) Well, as you can probably guess from this post’s title, the question emblazoned on my brain is about the existence or non-extistence of herniated disc migraines (A herniated disc is also known as a “slipped disc” It’s not a lot of fun).

Blame My Client

As a freelance writer, I get a lot of strange topics assigned to me. Mostly what I write is web content, which relies on SEO tricks in order to have it place well in the SERPs (Search Engine Page Ranking). For a long article, I get a list of keywords the client wants me to incorporate “naturally and conversationally” into the article.

Last night, I had an assignment about “Living with a Herniated Disc”. One of the keywords I had to use was “herniated disc migraine”.

Now, open up another window on your browser and enter “herniated disc migraine” into your favorite search engine. I’ll wait.

Welcome Back

There’s nothing there, is there? (Except for some chiropractor ads and questions in health forums). Now, for the client, I treated the herniated disc migraine as a secondary ailment derived from the herniated disc. If you have the stress and pain of a herniated disc, you are bound to get migraines or serious headaches. A doctor would probaly (emphasize probably) treat the migraines seperately from the herniated disc pain. (As always, please don’t use this blog as a substitution for a doctor visit.) However, about 90% of herniated discs do not need surgery in order for the pain to go away. I couldn’t find any information on whether surgery for a herniated disc would also help get rid of migraines (that’s too much to hope for, I guess).

That’s all I could find. Not a lot of help, sorry.

So I’m putting the question out to the blogosphere — is there such thing as a herniated disc migraine?


Posted in Fear And Pain, Headache Humour, Migraine on April 23rd, 2008

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3 Responses to “Is There Such A Thing As A Herniated Disc Migraine?”

  1. Rain Gem Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    It’s most likely “cervicogenic headache” or “cervicogenic migraine” they are talking about. The symptoms of CH are pretty much indistinguishable from “classic” migraine:

    http://www.raingem.com/2008/03/how-to-tell-its-not-migraine.html

    Some bone-cracking and physical therapy helps to treat CH, in most cases.

  2. Rena Sherwood Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    Thank you so much for the info, RainGem. God, Goddess and Peter Gabriel bless you!

  3. Rain Gem Says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 3:53 am

    No prob, glad to help :)

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