regretful - Thank you. I am having horrible anxiety. My neck and upper back have been sore for a full week now. This soreness has come and gone before. I'm fearful that it won't go away this time. Sooner or later, aches associated with chronic degenerative change start to not go away.

Besides the soreness, I have numbness and tingling in the fingers of both my hands. It is scaring me. None of these symptoms are new. Well - the tingling was only in my left hand until today.

I think about how alone I am and I get scared. If I was to ever get seriously sick, I don't have anyone to help me. When my boyfriend got sick a number of times quite seriously, I was always there for him. He got an awful lot of care taking from me. But there is no one to do that for me. It scares me. It is awful to get older alone.

I come to PC sometimes to feel less alone. Sometimes it helps.