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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Actually, the last time I went to the doc, I did something weird and horrible to my neck. (Like, I reached forward to pick up a pencil off the desk and something horrible happened to my neck.) I couldn't move. At all. Couldn't lie down, stand, sit, walk, nothing, without shrieking pain through my whole left side.
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Neck pain is the WORST!! (And I've given birth to more than one 9-pound baby...) You're totally immobilized -- and it comes on so suddenly and unexpectedly. I usually get it when I've slept in a strange position (or at least that's the only thing I have found to explain it.)
I did end up going to the doctor for that (I was literally in tears in my bed on the phone to my Dr. -- in contrast to the time that I had a compound fracture and nearly passed out from the pain -- where not a tear was shed), or more accurately, she prescribed physical therapy and I somehow made it over to the PT's office (that taxi ride was excruciating). Physical therapy (which, prior to this experience, I basically considered as equivalent to voo-doo, witch doctors, faith-healers and the like) was a MIRACLE.
Ever since, when I find myself with excruciating neck pain, I do the recommended exercises, and it really helps. It's unbelievable. I'm a true convert.
