re your pains
I have cervical DDD at 3 levels and a small disc herniation at C5/6 and some other *stuff* that supposedly accounts for my neck pain but I also get some of the earlier symptoms you mentioned. I do get sharp occipital pains like little searing zingers and they completely obliterate my ability to think/function when they occur. Then I usually get a migraine of varying degree.
I've found fioricet to be helpful for the h/a's (migraines) and muscle relaxers to be helpful THO mostly a shot of Toradol 60mg IM re muscle spasms. I'm not sure whether this would be helpful to you as you're probably dealing with a different entity tho I'm just throwing this out there *just in case*
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