that occipital pain kat mentioned, i used to get that along with my migraines, remember asking hubby "to squeeze my neck"Sue, I'd forgotten about that. I knew by the time I was 18 and in theatre school that if someone held my head on each side and pulled up, the pressure in the back of my skull would ease. When I started working with student chiros at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, they started doing that for me as well. Not because I asked them to, but because they knew that based on my description, it would help. I get atypical optical migraines that I am certain originate in the occiput because although I don't get pain with them, there is pressure back there that increases during the migraine. Nobody can figure out why I get them and the neurologist I saw in November said I was normal. Yup I'm normal in the way that I get atypical optical migraines. Whacky.
But colour me relieved!
I also knew by the time I was 18 that if I laid down on a bench and one person grabbed my feet and pulled while I held onto the armpost by my head, the stretch would ease my thoracics.
Odd, the things that come back to you sometimes. I'd forgotten about that until I read your post.
Warm hugs,
