Hi all,

I am 4 months pcs. lately my headaches have been really bad. I am wondering if they are hangiong aruond because of anxiety/depression, and if they are the cause for my headaches.

thoughts/experiences????

Tension/stress can be a cause of head aches but neck inflammation can also be a cause. When they seem to get stuck, try icing your upper neck. Inflammation in the upper neck can cause muscle tension that can cause head aches.

Thanks for the reply mark,, another quick one. A new symptom I have been having lately is numbness and tingling on the side of my face along with pulsating near my ears and twitching under my eye. Does this have anything to do with the C7 cranial nerve, could it possibly be nerve damage that is healing??? And could this nerve damage be causing my headaches…

What I learned with PCS and depression/anxiety is that it is a chicken and egg situation. They both make each other worse, and they both have overlapping symptom sets. You probably will never figure out exactly which thing is causing what. Your neurobiology affects your thoughts -- but your thoughts also affect your neurobiology.

The good news is that if you work on getting your brain into optimal working condition, it will help both the PCS and the depression/anxiety. What heals one, in general, also heals the other.

There are a few PCS-specific things like vision therapy that can help PCS alone, but even muscle tension and back or neck pain can be related to either PCS or depression/anxiety. In my situation, it made sense to stop focusing so much on where the issue originated and just working on getting my brain and body into optimal working condition. Then everything got back on the right track.