Wow, thanks for all this info, eskielover!

Like I said, the pain management place won't give me any pain meds, just a muscle relaxer, because of my history of pain med addiction and because they said pain meds would actually worsen my pain.

I can't remember if I said this above, but since going off the Percocet, my head pain is usually about a 4 every day. When I had the medial branch block done on Wednesday (injection in my neck to block the nerve signals in the facet joints on either side of my neck), my head pain actually went down to a 2! That was fabulous and a great "break" from the pain! But since that's worn off, it's back to a 4.

At the pain management place, they really think my head pain is caused to a large extent by my neck problem, and the medial branch block results seem to verify that to an extent. I'm most likely going to have an electrode or electrodes placed in my facet joints which should give me head and neck pain relief for up to a year if the procedure works.

That, plus I'm going up to 100 mg on the Topamax pretty soon. Hopefully between the two my pain will be manageable. Also, I bet after some more time goes by if I get in bad pain, my neurologist will prescribe some more Percocet for limited periods of time.