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[|Human|] I recently started having electrical pulses over my left ear and into on scalp and head is sore...saw chiropractor and ent who think it is occipital neuralgia. Would prednisone help as over the countet pain aids are not working. ?.can stress cause this to come on and can it be a precursor to shingles?
[|AI|]  Hello! Thank you for asking on Chat Doctor! I understand your concern and agree with your doctor on the fact that occipital neuralgia could be the cause of these troubles. I would not recommend taking steroids for this purpose. An antiepileptic Chat Doctor.  I would also recommend performing a brain MRI extended even in the first cervical spine vertebra, in order to exclude a possible irritating lesion in this level. Hope you will find this answer helpful! Kind regards,