New Member...Head question..

[Call_Me_James]

Beautiful advice, much appreciated. Will definatly do so.

[TheTruthIs]

Lots of reasons for headaches. For a boxer though, it is good to stay informed. Every active (fighting/sparring) boxer should keep this list close by of TBI as a reference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumat...s_and_symptoms

[TheTruthIs]

And not to frighten you, but to keep awareness of the sport you and I are in.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/70012.php

[IBFHvyWtChamp]

It could be nothing, but it could also be serious. I would speak with a doctor before taking any more shots.

[Domey]

I was in a car accident when I was 17 years old. I was suppose to enter the Golden Gloves that year and then turn pro. This was 7 years ago. I am just now getting back into the ring.

I suffered from a factured neck. I also had(Been getting them again) chronic neck and back pain, muscle spasms, and chronic migrains. I would wake up literally every day with a migrain from hell, and have to lay in my dark, cold, quiet room for hours for it to go away.

I seen a neurologist, neurosergeon, a pain specialist(Got quarterzone shots in my neck/back), been through physical therapy twice, seen two chiropracters twice a week. I've been on every migrain medication that's out there. I was even on Imatrex injections, nothing helped.

Finally the second chiropractor I started seeing gave me some breathing room and helped. I started seeing him once a week and it has helped ever since. My migrains were gone for almost two years. I get them still, probally once a week, but it is nothing like they use to be.

Do not mess around with head injuries. As been said, it could be nothing, but it also could be something very serious. Personally, I would get a MRI done.

[fraidycat]

I was in a car accident when I was 17 years old. I was suppose to enter the Golden Gloves that year and then turn pro. This was 7 years ago. I am just now getting back into the ring.

I suffered from a factured neck. I also had(Been getting them again) chronic neck and back pain, muscle spasms, and chronic migrains. I would wake up literally every day with a migrain from hell, and have to lay in my dark, cold, quiet room for hours for it to go away.

I seen a neurologist, neurosergeon, a pain specialist(Got quarterzone shots in my neck/back), been through physical therapy twice, seen two chiropracters twice a week. I've been on every migrain medication that's out there. I was even on Imatrex injections, nothing helped.

Finally the second chiropractor I started seeing gave me some breathing room and helped. I started seeing him once a week and it has helped ever since. My migrains were gone for almost two years. I get them still, probally once a week, but it is nothing like they use to be.

Do not mess around with head injuries. As been said, it could be nothing, but it also could be something very serious. Personally, I would get a MRI done.

I suffered a herniated disc and a severe neck sprain in a car wreck in March. Had to have surgery to repair it. I still get headaches from exertion occasionally, and a "stinger" -- a short, intense headache -- behind my ear from time to time. My doc put me through an MRI, 3 sets of X-rays, a bone scan, two separate neurological consults, plus three months of PT and chiropractic, before even letting me spar.

Turns out my headaches are muscular -- scar tissue in my neck causes the stiffness that translates to an exertion headache and the "stinger" is a cramp at the vertex of the sternocleidomastoid. But it took $10,000 worth of tests to make freaking sure and no way in hell was I -- or my doctor -- going to let someone beat on my melon until we were certain.