Headaches and Trigger Points and Pain
I have a quick question about headaches. I’ve been working on trigger points in my neck, shoulders and back. I often notice that when I’m done working on them, I have a worse headache and my eyes burn sometimes. Maybe it’s a coincidence, I don’t know but did you ever have an increased headaches after working on trigger points?
yes, yes i did. always. As the muscle lets go of it’s load of stress chemicals and metabolic waste, the area will be more sore for a while. At first it was days for me, then it was more sore till I was able to sleep, and now it’s a matter of hours and it goes away. As your body gets healthier, and has less to get rid of, the basics stay the same, but the time required to heal and the intensity of they pain both lessen considerable. …. I got your other email .. will reply soon 
Interesting- so your headaches worsened not just your neck/shoulder muscles? So I should keep doing it?-oww it hurts though!
yes, what I have found, is that the worse off a muscle group is, the more it refers pain to another area, and the more INTENSE that pain is. So if your neck and shoulder muscles are all bound up right now, your headaches will get worse.
Eventually, not only will they not be so painful for so long, you will start to feel the pain in the actual muscles instead of the referred area. So you won’t get a headache, you’ll get a pain in a certain muscle. And the type of pain and what it feels like will tip you off to exactly what you did, what muscle it is, and how to fix it. It’s like being the best doctor in the world.
Did I tell you I fell on the ice and hurt my knee so bad I couldn’t walk or put any weight on it 5 weeks ago? This knowledge I have about my body helped me SO MUCH through that ordeal. I never went to a doctor, my limp was gone in 4 weeks, and now I am almost back to full strength and flexibility.
It was a super-bad injury, but after the third day, there wasn’t one day that I didn’t wake up feeling a little better with a little more strength and or flexibility than the day before. and I always KNEW exactly what to do, how much to do, how much I could handle, and what my body needed.
All this I learned from my 5 years spent learning to heal fibro
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