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woke up this am with a stiff neck, thought i slept on in wrong and it would feel better. getting worse my the minute, hurts to sit up, can't lay down, i'm on ultram for pain, doesn't even phase it. whats going on...
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I had talked to you before, asking what LLMD you went to because mine that I had was in Hanover and had just closed his practice.
So on my last visit with him my major complaint was neck pain, he prescribed Prevacid NapraPac 500 for me for inflammation. He had asked me if I had stomach problems,
which I informed him I thought I had a stomach like a goat,Can eat anything, never any heartburn,because I guess the Naprosyn can be hard
on your stomach and so the Naprosyn is prescribed with Prevacid and it did help alot. My neck does'nt bother me at all right now.
I just used my prescription up and I'm going to wait and see if I need to go back on it because it's pretty expensive.
With Ins. it'll cost me $66.00. Originally it costs a hundred forty something. Although he had given me a voucher that was good
for a 28 day dose and that was free. I know, seems to good to be true. But check with your Dr. maybe it'll work out for you to get a free trial also and maybe it'll help with you neck and shoulders.
Hope so, good luck and take care
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If you're on abx, then you're probably herxing. My neck was horrible for the first year and a half of treatment. Sometimes was next to unbearable.
The Naprosyn/Prevacid sounds great! I tried all kinds of pain killers, mostly to no avail.
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thanks to both of you, sent both a private
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Stiff necks are a traditional lyme symptom. I got them on and off for a number of years before my diagnosis.
If it remains, you may have help from a muscle relaxer like Flexeril.
In the meantime, heat is really one of the best things to relax muscles. A heating pad on for 15 minutes then off for 15 minutes. Hot showers are also great.
Taking magnesium may also help to relax the muscles. But it's not a quick fix.
Drinking lots of water is also important to keep muscles relaxed. Especially if you are herxing and need to flush toxins.
I would stay away from having somebody not experienced massage your shoulder. In my experience, the Lyme can cause an inflammatory response to the outside stimulus of a massage and actually get stiffer.
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i had this same thing a few weeks ago. I couldnt even ride in a car because the slightest movement killed me, felt like bones were rubbing together with nerves caught in the middle....a pain i have never felt.
Ice really helped me a lot. I put one of those ice packs, the soft kind on the back of my neck and walked around hunched over for a few days.
I thought it would NEVER go away, but it did eventually as quick as it came it went.
I had just started a med so im sure it was a herx.
try the ice for about 10 min or so and see if you feel better with it on.
hang in there.
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i also want to add pain killers (advil) did nothing for me and that is when i know it wasnt that i had slept wrong.
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quote:Originally posted by cantgiveupyet: i also want to add pain killers (advil) did nothing for me and that is when i know it wasnt that i had slept wrong.
FYI - advil is not a pain killer. It's an anti-inflammatory. That means that advil works by reducing inflammation. So it only reduces pain that is caused by inflammation.
Pain killers actually block or change your body's perception of pain. So it actually stops the communication or reception of pain signals in the body.
In my experience, no form of anti-inflammatory ever helped with any of my Lyme symptoms. Even when I have inflammation.
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oooops my bad.
im just so used to taking advil for 'pain' in my normal life...pre lyme and it helping.
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Hey, Advil could help. It just never helped my Lyme pain.
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Yes, I have had neck/shoulder/hump in the back pain plus left hip and left femur/thigh area for 30+ years. Tried every pain pill out there.
2 wks. ago went to PCP about ALL the pain on my LEFT side of body:
thumb, elbow, hip, thigh, and foot; had extensive xrays taken of each one..
SEVERE DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS - left hip mild " " in thumb and elbow
FEMUR NORMAL where ALL the pain was coming from
foot ... plantar fascitis, heel spur, but it's felt like my stepping on a nail for 2 weeks
PCP rx naprosyn for 2 weeks; I'm to call him tomorrow on feedback.
2 days had NO PAIN & NO LIMIPING and I've limped for 24-30 years! Felt some relief.
Naprosyn is bad on stomach causing lining bleeding and bleeding ulcers...
Sounded like I'll go to ortho surgeon for hip injection shot. I don't want HIP REPLACEMENT surgery espcially with winter coming up. Each surgery/had 12 to date/ I get much worse and recuperation time is FOREVER to come.
When I'm sitting up on here, watching tv, etc., I have 3 frozen ice packs on me: hump in my back, left hip area, and left femur area. I change them to fresh frozen ones every 45-60 minutes! This goes on all day long while I'm awake.
When I'm hurting really bad in bed, I get up getting them to put on the area killing me.
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WOW BETTYG YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I SHOULDN'T BE B----EN. HOPE THINGS GET BETTER.
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Stiff neck was one of my first symptoms. Lyme hits the top 12 cranial nerves. I go to good chiropractors to adjust my neck, back, SI joint, joints -- such a life...
no one figured out what was wrong with me either -- I'd like to talk to some chiro schools and prof'l orgs about this
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hanover, that's one thing about this board. We all come here with whatever complaint we have and tell about it.
Then someone else comes along with a worse story, and we thank God; we have what we have.
I'm much better off than many on this board, so I'm thankful for that.
But we ALL need to rant to get it out of our system, get the support from others walking in our shoes, and go on from there.
Misery loves company; you say you want company? lol Bettyg
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