Re: a question about neck pain

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> I am getting a weird, sharp pain in my neck. It's not " achy. " And

> it's a response to movement--not movement at the edge of my range of

> (neck) movement, just normal movement (like I'm just looking more or

> less straight ahead, not craining my neck around). It happens when I'm

> moving my head around just a little, in the ordinary course of the

> day. It doesn't last or anything--it's like a sudden burst. Then

> it's gone.

>

> It's hard to explain. But maybe somebody recognizes something about

> it? Like I said, it's not the pain I get in hands and feet, or even

> in my neck most of the time.

>

> many thanks,

> Lynda

>

Lynda--

I don't have pain like this in my neck--but I have had pains like you

describe in my ankles before. My ankle could be hurting a little, and

then when I'm walking for no apparent reason I get a sudden sharp pain

there. It only lasts a few seconds and then the pain is back down to

the normal level again. I haven't had this happen in probably about a

month now. When it was happening, it lasted for three or four days.

Hopefully your neck pain will go away as well!

dordale

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Hi Lynda,

Have you had an MRI yet? I have a bulging disc in my neck, but I

also have bone spurs. Neither of these showed up on an x-ray. When

my neck muscles tense, the bone spurs sometimes poke nerves. It can

be extremely painful.

Jodi

--- In , " lyndazwinger " <lyndaz918@...>

wrote:

>

> Hi all,

> I feel like I've been quite a freeloader. I PROMISE if I ever know

> anything I will pitch in. But for now, I just have questions.

>

> Right now I am in the early stages of getting diagnosed (I have

> symptoms of more than one kind of arthritis apparently, some kind

of

> smorgasbord, so diagnosis is still ongoing). I had xrays that

> indicated " mild " (hah!) arthritis in my neck.

>

> I do have what I think of as arthritic pain there (it feels like my

> hands and feet feel in the mornings). But I also have something

else

> going on of late, and I wanted to ask if it's typical. I tried

> looking it up in the archives, but have had no luck. Here's my

question:

>

> I am getting a weird, sharp pain in my neck. It's not " achy. " And

> it's a response to movement--not movement at the edge of my range

of

> (neck) movement, just normal movement (like I'm just looking more

or

> less straight ahead, not craining my neck around). It happens when

I'm

> moving my head around just a little, in the ordinary course of the

> day. It doesn't last or anything--it's like a sudden burst. Then

> it's gone.

>

> It's hard to explain. But maybe somebody recognizes something

about

> it? Like I said, it's not the pain I get in hands and feet, or

even

> in my neck most of the time.

>

> many thanks,

> Lynda

>

[Guest guest]

dordale--thank you! my favorite kind of pain--the kind that goes

away on its own. Here's hoping....

Lynda

>

> Lynda--

>

> I don't have pain like this in my neck--but I have had pains like you

> describe in my ankles before. My ankle could be hurting a little, and

> then when I'm walking for no apparent reason I get a sudden sharp pain

> there. It only lasts a few seconds and then the pain is back down to

> the normal level again. I haven't had this happen in probably about a

> month now. When it was happening, it lasted for three or four days.

> Hopefully your neck pain will go away as well!

>

> dordale

>

[Guest guest]

For quite a few years, I had to use a Cervical Traction Device regularly

because of spurs and bulging discs. It would make my legs so weak that I

couldn't walk. About 20 minutes of 12-15# three times in one day would make

it better until the next time. I don't have to do it as often now, it's

boring.

Dennis in Eastexas

" You can't always fix it with money "

[ ] Re: a question about neck pain

> Hi Lynda,

>

> Have you had an MRI yet? I have a bulging disc in my neck, but I

> also have bone spurs. Neither of these showed up on an x-ray. When

> my neck muscles tense, the bone spurs sometimes poke nerves. It can

> be extremely painful.

>

> Jodi

>

>

>

>>

>> Hi all,

>> I feel like I've been quite a freeloader. I PROMISE if I ever know

>> anything I will pitch in. But for now, I just have questions.

>>

>> Right now I am in the early stages of getting diagnosed (I have

>> symptoms of more than one kind of arthritis apparently, some kind

> of

>> smorgasbord, so diagnosis is still ongoing). I had xrays that

>> indicated " mild " (hah!) arthritis in my neck.

>>

>> I do have what I think of as arthritic pain there (it feels like my

>> hands and feet feel in the mornings). But I also have something

> else

>> going on of late, and I wanted to ask if it's typical. I tried

>> looking it up in the archives, but have had no luck. Here's my

> question:

>>

>> I am getting a weird, sharp pain in my neck. It's not " achy. " And

>> it's a response to movement--not movement at the edge of my range

> of

>> (neck) movement, just normal movement (like I'm just looking more

> or

>> less straight ahead, not craining my neck around). It happens when

> I'm

>> moving my head around just a little, in the ordinary course of the

>> day. It doesn't last or anything--it's like a sudden burst. Then

>> it's gone.

>>

>> It's hard to explain. But maybe somebody recognizes something

> about

>> it? Like I said, it's not the pain I get in hands and feet, or

> even

>> in my neck most of the time.

>>

>> many thanks,

>> Lynda

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynda,

My diagnosis is dermatomyositis. But I know exactly what you are

talking about with the sudden neck pain triggered by almost nothing.

Infrequently, I have had severe pain attacks that last just a few

moments in my neck and also in the sole of my left foot. I also get

pain attacks that last 2-3 days that are also sharp pain, although not

quite as sharp.

One of these prevented me from driving because I could not turn my

neck, another was in my left ankle and caused my doc to give me

crutches for a couple days although we could not find the cause. I had

another in my right upper arm that made it so I had to lift my one arm

with the other one to turn my car keys i the ignition, and one in my

lower back that caused me to need a wheelchair to carry my laptop in

the airport on my way to a business trip. The pain disappears with

little to no recovery period!!!!

This was going on for a couple years before I was diagnosed with DM.

It's not a symptom of dermatmyositis and is just plain mystifying to

any gp and so far to my rheumatologist. She feels she would need to

see me in the middle of an attack and that has not occurred yet.

I posted about them once here, I think and in a couple other groups. I

think I called it something like " sudden sharp pain with no triggers " .

Haven't gotten any answers yet.

One bright note is that this issue has lessened although not

disappeared since I have been on a tricyclic antidepressant. It was

prescribed to me for neuropathic pain (another use of these drugs) and

once I got up to 50 mg a day, it began ,lessening (although not

eliminating) neuropathic pain and definitely decreasing the frequency

and severity of the sudden sharp pain attacks and also headaches.

At first I got put out because I thought my doc put me on an

anitdepressant for depression without being straight with me about it.

Not that I deny that this whole thing could get me depressed, but I

did not like anyone being indirect like that. The drug was imipramine,

and when I went home and Googled just the name of the drug rather than

the drug category, I came up with only its use as an anitdepressant.

When I approached my gp aboput this with good humor and calmly a

couple weeks later, he just as calmly Googled the tricyclic

antidepressant category right in front of me to show me their lesser

known use for neuropathic pain! Well shut my mouth!!

Sincerely,

" Which would you rather: To be right alone or to solve a problem

together? " - Anonymous

>

> Hi all,

> I feel like I've been quite a freeloader. I PROMISE if I ever know

> anything I will pitch in. But for now, I just have questions.

>

> Right now I am in the early stages of getting diagnosed (I have

> symptoms of more than one kind of arthritis apparently, some kind of

> smorgasbord, so diagnosis is still ongoing). I had xrays that

> indicated " mild " (hah!) arthritis in my neck.

>

> I do have what I think of as arthritic pain there (it feels like my

> hands and feet feel in the mornings). But I also have something else

> going on of late, and I wanted to ask if it's typical. I tried

> looking it up in the archives, but have had no luck. Here's my

question:

>

> I am getting a weird, sharp pain in my neck. It's not " achy. " And

> it's a response to movement--not movement at the edge of my range of

> (neck) movement, just normal movement (like I'm just looking more or

> less straight ahead, not craining my neck around). It happens when I'm

> moving my head around just a little, in the ordinary course of the

> day. It doesn't last or anything--it's like a sudden burst. Then

> it's gone.

>

> It's hard to explain. But maybe somebody recognizes something about

> it? Like I said, it's not the pain I get in hands and feet, or even

> in my neck most of the time.

>

> many thanks,

> Lynda

>

[Guest guest]

It sounds like it could be a muscle spasm. When your neck already

hurts sometimes you hold it more stiff or tense and get a spasm. When

I had mine it felt like that shaprp pain on movement. They can check

on an xray. If so, physical therapy (especially the ultrasound and

massage part) do wonders. Good luck figuring it out.