Hi,
I aam beeing diagnosed not to long ago and in fact I looked my simptons up and diagnosed myself and coroborated it with mt Dr. I was diagnose with Facet joint syndrome on the left side prior to this and went to PT for several month and did all the stretching and exercises recomended.
Out of nowhere this pain came and the dismissed it as part of the facet joint syndrome and so on.
So, to make it short, ice and gabapenting low dose is what I am on now.
Ice helps a lot and gabapentin for now somehow too.
I also take a muscle relaxer to tight neck muscle wich is Soma and Tylenol for pain.
I have an appointment with a neurologist in July. Will see.
I am reading that there are so many things that we can try beeing Botox the latest. And all the other nerve blocks. They all need to be repeated every 3 month or so.
It is a horrible pain and I never thought I was going to suffer of it. Nobody in my family has. I wish you good luck and try with ice