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January 29, 2025
No major change still. I've been trying to do all sorts of massaging and exercise stuff. I try to avoid things that make me dizzy but I'm happiest when I just don't leave my house. Every time I move my neck I get little cracks and pops and all sorts of unsettling sounds - probably over 200 a day. It sucks because as long as I keep hearing those, or feeling random neck pains, I know that nothing is being fixed or "healed" or whatever it's supposed to be doing. I don't know.
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January 07, 2025
I think I agitated my neck even more from all the massaging, stretching and exercises I was trying. It feels like a big setback. I can't sit at my PC for too long - I think sitting in one position upright like that without moving really puts weight on a problem area or something, doesn't feel good. I'm trying to rest a lot but I'm soooo sick of being in bed and nothing online interests me right now.
I ordered a really good neck collar to try. Maybe if something is trying to heal itself, I just haven't given it enough time to do so. My theory is that the neck collar will either help something heal a bit and make me feel better, or it'll make me feel worse which I think will lean more towards there being something that is causing muscles to weaken quickly? I have no idea. Doctors don't seem to care or know anything, so I have to be my own doctor this year.
I ordered a really good neck collar to try. Maybe if something is trying to heal itself, I just haven't given it enough time to do so. My theory is that the neck collar will either help something heal a bit and make me feel better, or it'll make me feel worse which I think will lean more towards there being something that is causing muscles to weaken quickly? I have no idea. Doctors don't seem to care or know anything, so I have to be my own doctor this year.
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January 02, 2025
I'm in bed on my laptop with my hot water bottle behind my neck. I usually have days like that every 2 weeks or so, where my neck just seems achey and uncomfortable consistently throughout the day.
Aside from a neck injury, another theory I have is that when I made that really loud "pop" in my neck back in February/March, because it happened when my neck was turned and being pulled upwards, maybe the bones got a little stretched out and then squashed some nerve or something in between one of the discs. To me that can explain why I'm only getting worse, whereas I think most people with a normal neck injury start healing after months of physio + massage etc. I bought a device to stretch my neck out to see if that will help at all. My own manual stretching and massaging doesn't seem to help, no matter how much I do it.
I'm going through another "sleeping problems" phase (I've had a few different ones now) and I think it's starting to peak now. It's the kind I've had a couple of times already which I think is related to my occipital area when it gets all painful and sore (like it has been lately). When I try to fall asleep, the closer I am to actually falling asleep, my eyes almost roll upwards and then it sort of hurts, and it wakes me up again. Sometimes it'll be paired with me about to fall asleep but then my breathing starts to feel "manual", and it wakes me up and I have to force myself to breathe. Last night it took me 2-3 hours to fall asleep, which still isn't as bad as that terrible week I had when I had multiple nights that took 4+ hours. That sucked. So 2-3 hours is still not bad compared to how bad I know it can get! Well, I'll see how the next few nights go... because this kind of stuff can often last 1 - 4 nights...
Oh and aside from that it's the usual: still tremoring, neck pains, and jitteriness (muscle fatigue?) - it was pretty bad today. I can feel the jitteriness even when I'm eating or just packing orders at my desk. I had a lot of those random muscle jerks today too, where my head or arm will just kinda make a random movement. And a lot of random twitching lately (for some reason the most common twitching seems to be my thumb I think?).
Aside from a neck injury, another theory I have is that when I made that really loud "pop" in my neck back in February/March, because it happened when my neck was turned and being pulled upwards, maybe the bones got a little stretched out and then squashed some nerve or something in between one of the discs. To me that can explain why I'm only getting worse, whereas I think most people with a normal neck injury start healing after months of physio + massage etc. I bought a device to stretch my neck out to see if that will help at all. My own manual stretching and massaging doesn't seem to help, no matter how much I do it.
I'm going through another "sleeping problems" phase (I've had a few different ones now) and I think it's starting to peak now. It's the kind I've had a couple of times already which I think is related to my occipital area when it gets all painful and sore (like it has been lately). When I try to fall asleep, the closer I am to actually falling asleep, my eyes almost roll upwards and then it sort of hurts, and it wakes me up again. Sometimes it'll be paired with me about to fall asleep but then my breathing starts to feel "manual", and it wakes me up and I have to force myself to breathe. Last night it took me 2-3 hours to fall asleep, which still isn't as bad as that terrible week I had when I had multiple nights that took 4+ hours. That sucked. So 2-3 hours is still not bad compared to how bad I know it can get! Well, I'll see how the next few nights go... because this kind of stuff can often last 1 - 4 nights...
Oh and aside from that it's the usual: still tremoring, neck pains, and jitteriness (muscle fatigue?) - it was pretty bad today. I can feel the jitteriness even when I'm eating or just packing orders at my desk. I had a lot of those random muscle jerks today too, where my head or arm will just kinda make a random movement. And a lot of random twitching lately (for some reason the most common twitching seems to be my thumb I think?).
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