Pain in the Neck
Nov. 2nd, 2015 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI'm killing a little time before I head off to my first ever chiropractic appointment. I'm kind of doing this backwards since I actually have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, but OMG the pain in my neck! I had actually been hoping to get to see someone over the weekend, but, alas, today was the earliest.
I don't even know how to explain this pain (though I bet I'm going to have to in 45 minutes, anyway, so here goes...). Right, so, kind of like a pinched nerve, maybe? Shooting, but also constant... though the sharpness of it varies by position. It also seems to improve with exercise/movement and get worse when I sleep. Three ibuprofen mostly makes it manageable, but, frankly, WTF do I know about pain. I mean, really. I'm built horse-tough. I hardly ever get sick or injured, and, when I am, I get back up to full speed really fairly quickly. So, this is super-werid for me. Pain that lasts more than four days is a brand-new experience for me. I know that a lot of my friends live with chronic pain, and I will tell you I have a new appreciation for you all. This sucks. I can't even and it's only been five days.
I'm kind of hoping that the chiropractor will be magic. That, he'll take one look at me, twist my back in some way, there'll be this tremendous crack, and this strange pain will disappear.
Because I seemed to have done this to myself just as magically. I woke up with it. Seriously, went to bed, woke up OMG OW WHAT HOW HELP
My weird neck/shoulder pain, however, didn't stop my family and I from having a lovely Halloween. We did our usual Sargent Avenue trek. It doesn't mean much candy, but the houses are amazing. This year, my favorite was the house of Memes. They had basically put up a fence and came up/found a bunch of Halloween themed memes. They also had a spot where you could pose to take a selfie of your own meme (with that meme background, you know the one--with the pie-shaped pattern thingie?) Anyway, they were cool. Many of the other houses have been the same for a long time, but it's always worth it to see the Morris Dancers and all the thousands of other costumed folks. There were some inventive costumes out there! My favorites were these two youngsters dressed as bioluminescent jellyfish. They had umbrella hats with streamers and white Christmas lights dangling from them. Hard to describe, but a magical effect. I was impressed and told them so.
Anyway, I'm off. Will update with how everything went.
I don't even know how to explain this pain (though I bet I'm going to have to in 45 minutes, anyway, so here goes...). Right, so, kind of like a pinched nerve, maybe? Shooting, but also constant... though the sharpness of it varies by position. It also seems to improve with exercise/movement and get worse when I sleep. Three ibuprofen mostly makes it manageable, but, frankly, WTF do I know about pain. I mean, really. I'm built horse-tough. I hardly ever get sick or injured, and, when I am, I get back up to full speed really fairly quickly. So, this is super-werid for me. Pain that lasts more than four days is a brand-new experience for me. I know that a lot of my friends live with chronic pain, and I will tell you I have a new appreciation for you all. This sucks. I can't even and it's only been five days.
I'm kind of hoping that the chiropractor will be magic. That, he'll take one look at me, twist my back in some way, there'll be this tremendous crack, and this strange pain will disappear.
Because I seemed to have done this to myself just as magically. I woke up with it. Seriously, went to bed, woke up OMG OW WHAT HOW HELP
My weird neck/shoulder pain, however, didn't stop my family and I from having a lovely Halloween. We did our usual Sargent Avenue trek. It doesn't mean much candy, but the houses are amazing. This year, my favorite was the house of Memes. They had basically put up a fence and came up/found a bunch of Halloween themed memes. They also had a spot where you could pose to take a selfie of your own meme (with that meme background, you know the one--with the pie-shaped pattern thingie?) Anyway, they were cool. Many of the other houses have been the same for a long time, but it's always worth it to see the Morris Dancers and all the thousands of other costumed folks. There were some inventive costumes out there! My favorites were these two youngsters dressed as bioluminescent jellyfish. They had umbrella hats with streamers and white Christmas lights dangling from them. Hard to describe, but a magical effect. I was impressed and told them so.
Anyway, I'm off. Will update with how everything went.