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I am getting niddle like sting in back of my head since today. Everything else is normal and pricking is head is not continuous . Can you please tell me about it?
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Needle like pricking pain in back of head is most likely muscular in origin.
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Take good sleep, take pleny of water atleast 4 litres a day
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Avoid hard pillow while sleeping
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The history provided is not sufficient enough to come to a conclusive diagnosis . You can take a pain killer for symptomatic relief for now but further investigations and clinical examination is required to kNow the cause of your headache.
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