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A member asked:
Having really sharp electric shooting pain in head. what could it be. it is really scaring me.
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Occipital neuralgia: It is a type of headache, vast majority of time benign. occasionally due to pinched nerve. I had a patient with pain shooting up the back of her head who had a disk higher up in her cervical spine.
Answered 3/19/2018
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