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A 19-year-old female asked:

Sometimes especially when i laugh i have pain in the scalp below and parallel to my ears but when i relax it stop . what could be the reason

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Dr. David Lipkinanswered

Internal Medicine 54 years experience

Occipital neuralgia?: Brief spasms of sharp pain in scalp on laughing can be due to occipital neuralgia. The exact cause is unknown. For more information on this go to http://bit.ly/1H5DrQz

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