Heavy head caused by acheing neck

Since 25th January 2007 my head has been feeling very heavy 24/7, this is caused by a tight feeling in my neck and the fatigued feeling that is presumably coming from my trapezius. My neck feels like your legs do after you’ve been standing up or running all day and has the tendency to want to slump down to the weakest side (which is the left). The right hand side comes and goes but is mostly alright . The intensity of this problem varies with absolutely no discernable pattern irrespective of what I did on that day, but in spite of the fact that it has never disappeared, the intensity as of the last 2 months has been a little bit lower than it normally would be (for reasons I will later explain). Overall it’s a big pain in the backside and has left me feeling miserable for pretty much the entire duration of the time that I’ve been stuck with it, regardless as to how hard I try to get on with things.
The problem was caused by me kneeling over my computer (which was on my bed) many times during one particular week (more time and much longer than ever before) in which the problem began to exist and get worse until I officially noticed it later in that week. Below are all the things I have tried and which have had partial or no success in reducing the intensity.

Partially successful treatments

Dosulepin- taken for 7 months starting from 50mg per night and ending with 150mg per night. This helped to gradually remove a headache that constantly occurred between Dec 2007 – January 2008.

Heatpacks/ Massaging- in some case the problem was responsive to these and the intensity was temporarily lowered.

Using 3 instead of 2 pillows- since the beginning of August 2008 this has had a mild, but permanent affect in keeping the average intensity (out of 10) lower and ensuring that it wasn’t as bad at it’s worst.

1 Muscle Relaxant Injection- this had a very quick affect on the headache feeling which recently came back and a few days it relived me of all the tightness in my neck and lowered the heaviness. A few days after this the headache feeling still hasn’t came back, but the tightness has started up again and the intensity has gone back to what it was before the injection.

Things that have been tried and failed

Standard pain killers- such as Ibuprofen and another more powerful one

Improvement of posture- This was tried in a few ways which started from using tape on my back to keep my posture better to generally trying to sit and stand straighter. It either made no difference at all or it temporarily made things worse. My posture is actually a lot better than it’s ever been (I stand and sit much better) but annoyingly this hasn’t affected my problem.

Physio therapy exercises-  Loads of different exercises were done over the course of several months and they either made no difference at all or temporarily made the problem worse.

MRI Scan- Showed nothing of concern at all

Acupuncture- Done for 5 weeks, but made no difference.


If anyone has any solutions that they can offer (even small or obvious ones will be appreciated) then I’d be very grateful to hear from you. I can provide you with any further information if needs be. Thankyou.