Painful Neck, Sharp Pain in Brain, Pressure Headache

[serf]

Still waking at 4am with really bad neck pain, dizziness and quite severe headache. Improves when I get up and move around. Out in the cold today with scarf on but back of neck got very cold and painful with headache and dizziness again as if it’s kind of freezing up through lack of blood flow. Cant really understand it. GP doing blood tests for various things - inflammatory markers or something. I’m only 55. Surely it shouldn’t be like this yet?

Have you tried a wrap around hot water bottle like this , it won't solve the prob but could relieve the pain .

We have hot water bottle every night summer or winter to knock pains away

 

[serf]

I think I probably ached more in my early 50's than I do now (60 in a fortnight).
Big part of that is not cutting cabbages any more.

Think mines down to to much hedge cutting for to many years and got 2 herniated disc in thoracic zone along with other pain on and off !

 

[DrWazzock]

Physio says it’s wear and tear on the vertebrae.
Doc says it was the bang on the head.
I just wish it would go away.
Always worse at 4am when it wakes me with painful neck and headache. Not so bad while busy during the day.
Been having awful nightmares as well. Last night I was falling off a wobbly stack.
I did once fall off a wobbly stack and the memory of it came right back to me while I slept. One of those where you wake up with a jolt as you hit the ground.
Relatives reckon they’ve had similar symptoms. Dizziness and neck pain. Some got over it in a week. Elderly took months. Felt like they were going to pass out. Doc couldn’t work it out.

 

[serf]

Physio says it’s wear and tear on the vertebrae.
Doc says it was the bang on the head.
I just wish it would go away.
Always worse at 4am when it wakes me with painful neck and headache. Not so bad while busy during the day.
Been having awful nightmares as well. Last night I was falling off a wobbly stack.
I did once fall off a wobbly stack and the memory of it came right back to me while I slept. One of those where you wake up with a jolt as you hit the ground.
Relatives reckon they’ve had similar symptoms. Dizziness and neck pain. Some got over it in a week. Elderly took months. Felt like they were going to pass out. Doc couldn’t work it out.

Have you dipped sheep in the 80s & 90s ?

 

[DrWazzock]

Have you dipped sheep in the 80s & 90s ?

Yes. But only 60 sheep a year. I remember the ministry man warning us to be careful tipping the OP into the dip.
Better not speak too soon but I reckon I’m improving slightly. Headache less bad. Neck a bit better. Shovelled out a dyke bottom yesterday afternoon to try and work up a sweat and loosen off my shoulders and neck. I think it helped a bit.

 

[Lili]

Physio says it’s wear and tear on the vertebrae.
Doc says it was the bang on the head.
I just wish it would go away.
Always worse at 4am when it wakes me with painful neck and headache. Not so bad while busy during the day.
Been having awful nightmares as well. Last night I was falling off a wobbly stack.
I did once fall off a wobbly stack and the memory of it came right back to me while I slept. One of those where you wake up with a jolt as you hit the ground.
Relatives reckon they’ve had similar symptoms. Dizziness and neck pain. Some got over it in a week. Elderly took months. Felt like they were going to pass out. Doc couldn’t work it out.

Sounds a bit odd, but try adjusting the number of pillows you sleep on? You might be better using only one thin one so your head is at a flatter angle. Hot bath before bed, massage, physiotherapy will all help the muscles relax.

 

[DrWazzock]

Sounds a bit odd, but try adjusting the number of pillows you sleep on? You might be better using only one thin one so your head is at a flatter angle. Hot bath before bed, massage, physiotherapy will all help the muscles relax.

The pillows situation has been a bit of a journey and I’m not quite there yet. My shoulders are broad so with a thin pillow when I turn on my side my head drops down with neck at an angle. . When lying flat, as long as pillow is thin my neck is straight which as you say is best. So I’ve scrunched the edges of the pillow up so when lie on my side the pillow has more thickness and keeps neck straighter. I really need a pillow with a hollow in middle and thick at LH and RH edges but none seems available. Orthopaedic pillows with a thick bit full width are useless as when laying flat neck is kinked up.

 

[Lili]

The pillows situation has been a bit of a journey and I’m not quite there yet. My shoulders are broad so with a thin pillow when I turn on my side my head drops down with neck at an angle. . When lying flat, as long as pillow is thin my neck is straight which as you say is best. So I’ve scrunched the edges of the pillow up so when lie on my side the pillow has more thickness and keeps neck straighter. I really need a pillow with a hollow in middle and thick at LH and RH edges but none seems available. Orthopaedic pillows with a thick bit full width are useless as when laying flat neck is kinked up.

Try tightly rolling up a couple of small hand towels, elastic band to hold and putting one vertically along either end of the pillowcase?

 

[serf]

I was there throwing them in when I was a kid and the headaches it used to give you in your forehead above the eyes ...

 

[DrWazzock]

I was there throwing them in when I was a kid and the headaches it used to give you in your forehead above the eyes ...

I used to have a veg garden as a kid and grew all sorts of brassicas. We started off dipping transients in mercuric chloride (calomel dust) and later bromphos which was an OP to keep the root fly off. It was banned after a few years. I believe OP is still used in airliner ventilation to keep the bugs down so people are still exposed to it in considerable quantities.
I feel I have had some kind of sudden minor injury in my brain though TBH, rather than it being something chronic. Something has changed suddenly. Though it could be a virus. More likely I’m slowly recovering from concussion . But not sure.

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

The pillows situation has been a bit of a journey and I’m not quite there yet. My shoulders are broad so with a thin pillow when I turn on my side my head drops down with neck at an angle. . When lying flat, as long as pillow is thin my neck is straight which as you say is best. So I’ve scrunched the edges of the pillow up so when lie on my side the pillow has more thickness and keeps neck straighter. I really need a pillow with a hollow in middle and thick at LH and RH edges but none seems available. Orthopaedic pillows with a thick bit full width are useless as when laying flat neck is kinked up.

Dohnut shaped pillows are available. Or something like this may be worth a try:

https://ortorex.uk/p/pillow/?utm_so...FWv-zpS2UPgkuzLpQPxCzVnvT5L6E4eBoC2BUQAvD_BwE

 

[primmiemoo]

I was there throwing them in when I was a kid and the headaches it used to give you in your forehead above the eyes ...

That's what I remember. Walking the flock back to field after was often disorienting.

 

[primmiemoo]

I used to have a veg garden as a kid and grew all sorts of brassicas. We started off dipping transients in mercuric chloride (calomel dust) and later bromphos which was an OP to keep the root fly off. It was banned after a few years. I believe OP is still used in airliner ventilation to keep the bugs down so people are still exposed to it in considerable quantities.
I feel I have had some kind of sudden minor injury in my brain though TBH, rather than it being something chronic. Something has changed suddenly. Though it could be a virus. More likely I’m slowly recovering from concussion . But not sure.

Might be covid. It can make a person feel befuddled. Go easy about things for a bit longer.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Might be covid. It can make a person feel befuddled. Go easy about things for a bit longer.

osteopath said my back pain in the winter was due to covid. Covid makes the floating ribs tight, this in turn affected the back, so conceivably could affect the neck too.

 

[5020man]

Might be covid. It can make a person feel befuddled. Go easy about things for a bit longer.

Brain fog.

 

[serf]

That's what I remember. Walking the flock back to field after was often disorienting.

Wether it's done perm damage or not I don't know but whenever I smell chems now I get the same response straight away from the likes of mcpa or grazon but everyone else may get same response too I don't know

 

[5020man]

osteopath said my back pain in the winter was due to covid. Covid makes the floating ribs tight, this in turn affected the back, so conceivably could affect the neck too.

I had that plus the head ache and stiff neck.

 

[primmiemoo]

Wether it's done perm damage or not I don't know but whenever I smell chems now I get the same response straight away from the likes of mcpa or grazon but everyone else may get same response too I don't know

I just have flashbacks to those compulsory dipping days when I was a girl. It's undoubtedly connected to the smells of the chems. Carpet cleaner is another.

 

[primmiemoo]

I had that plus the head ache and stiff neck.

That could be from the inflammation of the disease.

 

[5020man]

That could be from the inflammation of the disease.

Covid ?