Burning sensation inside of my head.

I have a burning sensation in the back of my head? Not my neck and I have had it for like 3 years

Same thing with me I thought I was crazy or I was "un normal"

It's called Occipital neuralgia "... a distinct type of headache characterized by piercing, throbbing, or electric-shock-like chronic pain in the upper neck, back of the head, and behind the ears, usually on one side of the head."

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/occipitalneuralgia/occipitalneuralgia.htm

I thought I was the only one. Your're describing my symptoms! I too have had this since I was a child.

I've had the same thing! Really,really painful and disabilating for about 3 to 5 minutes. I liken it to an electric shock. And also goes down my tongue and up through the back of my head. Just got one of those happen today. I have had neck injuries due to a car accident.

Hi guys, I've had this s problem for as far back as I can remember 5-6 years of age, the pain its unbearable at times and is really not normal, my mother also suffers from this as well as suffering from Fibromyalga , she understands the pain of it, I am seeing a doctor this monday guys and will most definitely keep you all updated as I think now we need answers at thos point of time

Found solution for my 11 year old son! Chiropractic care did the trick!

Its a freakin pinched nerve, dontcha know?

Loads of people get this. There are a few boards. It's not serious or life-changing. Just an intermittent mysterious pain, I get it too. Would giving it a name improve things in any way? I had it far more commonly as a child and wondered if my brain was being damaged. The brain itself has no pain receptors.

I'm in my late 40's and have had this issue since I was little. I can relate with everyone that has experienced the same extreme strange pain and symptoms and the awkwardness of trying to describe it to Doctor's, Family, and Friends.
The symptoms are primarily the same for me as I feel the extreme reflex "jerk" reaction like I turned my head the wrong way and an immediate rush of heat to the region on my head. The initial episode lasts a few seconds then it feels like a flood of warmth on my skull for 10-15 more seconds which I’ve interpreted as blood or fluid flowing outward then the residual aches and delirium of what happened for 10-15 minutes. I usually raise my hands to the area to feel the warmth if it exists externally as internally. Usually does. The location changes for me from back and sides to top of my head; never on the front side. Sometimes I get a headache from it that is longer lasting and I feel extremely sore for a while in my neck.
I never forget where I was and what I was doing when I have a bad episode. When it happens I usually cringe and verbalize. Others around me are aware that something happened but it quickly becomes evident I’ll survive and they can go about their business as I do a quick self check as well and move on. I've had to sit down and recompose many times as the pain, headache and dizziness have to subside. There is no trend in time that relief from this will come. It happens 10-50 times a year in no particular order during my life. Doctor’s have never been able to diagnose and I was flat out ignored when I was younger. I feel I’ve accepted this as a part of life and was unaware that anyone experienced this besides me. I’ve looked for this type of posting as long as I can remember and am relieved and horrified to know others feel similar symptoms.
I have shared my symptoms with friends and family and joke with those around me after that see me suffer from such events; I tell them my brain just got bigger which in turn obviously makes me smarter. My wife calls them “ticks” but I can see the worry in her eyes as we suspect something much more sinister is occurring.
I can’t wait to share with her as I feel some solace and sanity in what I have read in these posts.

Just wanted to add I have had the same thing a long as I can remember (at least since I was 8). Used to happen while playing baseball trying to look over my shoulder for fly balls. I tried to explain to teammates and coaches and no one knew what I was talking about. It happens when I try to suddenly look either left or right. Sometimes I feel like a muscle or tendon is catching briefly in my neck and then "hops" over some obstruction. When I feel that then the pain will be worse and I'll have some pain even a few hours later. Normally it just feels like a sudden burst of pain and warm liquid going up from my neck into my head. Can't think about anything else for 5-10 seconds, and the pain is pretty bad for as much as a minute. Usually it is totally gone in a minute or two and I have no pain afterward, but in the worst case I have an ache that last hours, the after-ache feels lower in the neck than the pain and burning was. The one that made me look this up happened 6 hours ago and I have a slight pain in my neck, left side, two inches from the spine, so low that it is pretty much the upper back, but the pain when it happened shot upwards into the back of my head like it always does. Usually this happens looking for cars in traffic, but to today it was just sitting in a chair turning my head to keep up with a toddler I was watching. Greater Occipital Nerve Entrapment is what an earlier post calls it. I am really glad to know that others have it (sorry they have it at the same time) and that it has a name. Since I've had it for 35 years I had already guessed it wasn't fatal :) Also it hasn't gotten worse, and since I play fewer sports I don't do as much that might cause it. The only thing I would say is that for you people where you are talking about the pain being less intense at the beginning and lasting for days without stop, that is something else! That might be occipital neuralgia someone mentioned, but that isn't the Greater Occipital Nerve Entrapment that 95% of the people here are describing.

This happens to me too! It has my whole life. It only happens when I turn my head. I get a sudden sharp burning pain either on the left or right back side of my head/skull. For a short time, it hurts sooooo bad, then the pain slowly fades away and it's like nothing ever happened. They occur very sporadically. I haven't found anyone else who has experienced this.

You're describing what I feel too! I've had these since I was a little girl. I really hope someone can say what it is.

I just got one today during basketball I turned my head to look back and I get this pain in the back of my head. at first I thought it was a migraine but I fell like some bursted in my head and like liquid going down my head. I get these pains a lot and I would like to learn more about them

Me too omg I thought I was the only one ..