what a fool !!!!

yesterday morning i woke and had my morning stretch, as i do every morning...... and my neck cracked.
at first i thought it was just one of those cramp things..... (slept on it funny)
but after 3-4 hours the pain was getting worse, i decided to phone my local gp to make an apointment, i couldnt get an apointment untill the early evening, so i was in pain all day.
when the apointment came, the doctor twisted my head from side to side which hurt like holy hell, he said i had a wry neck injury.....(which is all dutch to me)
he told me i had to take diazepam (5mg five times a day) to relax the muscles... and co-codamol (30 mg four times a day) for the pain......... oh yeah he also told me i had to wear a neck collar.....
now i feel like a right tool, the diazepam knocks me for six and very sleepy, and the collar makes me look like a clown.......... its that embarrassing , when my kids saw it for the first time , they laughed at me....
i feel a right fool .......... i only stretched......

your not a fool, you just hurt your neck.
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sounds kind of like whiplash maybe. wow I bet you sleep thru the recovery part! take care. maybe if you can lay down and a hot tub of water too that might help.

Ouch! Hope it gets better soon. Yeah, I signed up and paid for an exercise club and my neck/shoulder did their thing so it was 3 months of doctors and physical therapists all summer!

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I can relate to the neck collar....when they first started trying to treat my migraines, they did an MRI of my neck.....a mess. They said it looked like I had a whip lash sometime in my past & my neck was in a serious shape that needed neck fusion ASAP. I looked back & never was even in a car accident....only thing I could think of was when I was in my equestrian class in college, the horse decided to flip me over his head & I landed on my head on the ground....right over his ears....oops. Guess that had to have been when the original neck injury happened.

Anyway, the neck fusion happened. I had to have a special neck collar that was specially made to fit me & had to wear it for months during the healing & PT. I was so embarrased I couldn't stand it. It really looked funny when I was riding my horse with it on too.

And guess what.....the migraines were worse than ever after the surgery.....but I should never have neck problems again. It's been almost 8 years since the surgery & never had any sense that I had even had the surgery until now. There are things I do like painting over my head & working in the yard, raking up leaves...now I get the stiff neck. Guess getting older really stinks....old surgeries start to hurt when the weather changes....& sure sign that old age is setting in!!!!

Hope your neck feels better soon, but keep an eye on it even afterwards.....who woulda thought that a horse dumping me on my head would have ended up this way 20 years later????

Debbie

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I've had the same thing happen to me. It is dang painful and inconvenient to boot! So sorry you are in pain...and if you like I can loan you my red rubber nose to go with that neck brace

xoxoxo
sabby

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nice piggys LOLOL

sorry about the neck but at least in the meanatime, you will be floating quite nicely with the diazapam and co-codamol.
at least you doc had the sense to prescribe pain reducing meds.

Ouch ! It amazes me how a person can hurt themselves
from stretching. You were very smart to see a doc.

By the way, how are the drugs working ?

Tell your family that you are not joining the circus.It was just a trial run. Ha Ha

Hope you feel better soon.

thank you all ............
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