Beyond Misdiagnosis: How Occipital Neuralgia Gets Overlooked

Steve_carell25 Oct, 2025Health

The frustrating part about chronic headache sufferers is often feeling unheard. This article sheds light on why occipital neuralgia is so often mis-labeled as migraine, tension headache or cervicogenic headache. Because symptoms overlap—light sensitivity, scalp tenderness, neck involvement—many physicians default to well-known headache categories, bypassing nerve compression entirely.