I'm getting the degenerative disc from age and not having any fun with it. Have you tried accupuncture or electrical stimulation? I'm having the muscle spasms a lot in my arm.

I had the muscle thing with my neck when I was younger, usually got worse because of stress. Does your pain get better/worse from anything you can determine? Last time I started a new job, I had the bad neck for a couple weeks, hard with a new job and all but it was a challenging job and I guess I was really scared.

I had a full semester of grad school planned that started a couple weeks ago but I dropped it because of my neck/shoulder/arm. I'm doing better now, think the stress was getting to me there somewhat too. I finish up with PT this week. Don't know that that has helped a whole lot but was "reassuring" and a bit comforting? I do remember when I had my intake interview with my physical therapist, she had me do a lot of different moves before she found "the" one (shrugging my shoulders :-) that relieved the pain some.

I was reading this site: http://www.spine-dr.com/ linked from here: http://www.scoliosis.org/links.php