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I have had a nerve stimulator implanted for occipital peripharil neropathy. it was said a damaged hypothalmus caused all this. is this true?
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Unclear: If the dr's who assessed you and determined that this is from your hypothalamus, it's difficult to disagree with them. Occipital neuralgia is usually a disorder from the greater occipital nerve and can have many causes. It's difficult for me to make the correlation between the hypothalamus but there is a thalamic pain syndrome called dejerine-roussy but it usually involves more than one nerve.
Answered 12/9/2013
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No: Occipital neuralgia is not related to "damaged hypothalamus".
Answered 10/24/2012
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