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21 years
What kind of a headache is it when a piercing pain starts in the left occipital lobe, spreads to the parietal (mildly temporal) & then to the eye?
Mar 7, 2015

Dr. Zakia Dimassi Pediatrics
According to your description of this headache, it could be classified as a migraine variant, or a neuralgia (a brisk stabbing, burning, and often quite severe pain that occurs along a damaged nerve), but it remains necessary to perform a thorough evaluation (detailed history plus neurological examination) in the doctor's office to better characterize and diagnose the headache and manage accordingly.
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