I have suffered from occipital neuritis for years now due to a crushed nerve in my neck and I can't take anti-inflammatory medicines. I found increasing omega 3 fish oil to 6000 daily usually keeps it at bay but have to deal with the occasional breakouts with alternate heat and ice packs. I get blurred vision and can't lie down because of extreme heat and pain in the top back of my head. Nothing I try relieves the pain, so just have to throw everything I can at it and wait it out.

I am 71 have had occipital neuralgia badly when I was forty and again at 60 lasting a week or so. I just had it again and had advice (keep neck and head warm and I am on a course of anti-inflammatory medication. Hope they help and that it will not return. It is very painful and debilitating.