@theache
Have you tried using cool compresses or moist heat at the back of your head/neck area to relieve the headache? One might work better than the other and sometimes alternating them helps. Sometimes a steamy shower and letting the water run over the head helps. I like to avoid pills if possible. Sometimes I take valium to help relax my back when it flares.. I take only half of a 5mg tablet and usually only when we have the low weather fronts come through. It seems to work better for me than flexeril or zanaflex. I too have had family that did not do well with cymbalta.

If it is your neck there may be no other symptoms other than headache. You might have a tightness in your neck and or shoulders, but not necessarily. You might look around on the internet for some neck shoulder exercises.

It is more your shortness of breath that concerns me. That can have many causes too... most of the time it is lung, heart or digestive tract. I hope you have it all throughly checked out.

ZeeGee