It's been a while since my last update!
So my muscles have still been achey and randomly painful. Still mostly my neck and upper shoulders (and sometimes my arms and back). A tender area that has basically been bad for like 15 months now is the back of my neck and right under the base of my skull (occipital muscles), and always worse on the right side. I bought a lacrosse ball and started going really hard on massaging my occipitals. I sort of thought I need to "massage the painful areas out" like the Chiropractor did, but I overdid it. I damaged something and it made the entire back and side of my head have a weird "numb" feeling which was sooo uncomfortable and weird. It's been maybe over a month since I did that, and it's gradually improving and the numbness is about 85-90% gone now I think. I'm glad it wasn't permanent. But yeah, when I did that, it once again flared up all of the occipital muscles all over my head and scalp and ruined my life for like a week. There was a day where I could barely leave my bed because any time I moved my head a little, it felt like my brain was about to EXPLODE. So yeah, that sucked, and I definitely won't be going THAT hard on self-massage again...
All of my occipitals, neck muscles, shoulders, etc. are still incredibly tender and achey, which never seems to end. I just want to constantly massage all the aches, but then my arms get so exhausted.
And in the last couple of weeks, my back muscles got so messed up. Almost every day between 3pm-6pm they would start feeling so... itchy and tender and like they're crying out, so I would basically explain it as "my muscles are crying". I've been thera-caning my back every day, trying to make it improve. I had this "itchy" stuff with my shoulders and neck too, sort of on and off. I think a lot of the "itchy muscles" sensation is often linked to Fibromyalgia online. So I don't know. At this point my theories still are: neck injury, or neck instability (since it doens't seem to be getting much better), or some sort of muscle problem that started in my neck (could explain it traveling down my back and arms).
I might try to see a Rheumatologist after all.