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Hi everyone...

I've got a bone spur in my neck that is pressing on a nerve, and

also arthritis in the same area. The thoughts are that it is due to

a neck injury from a school bus accident way back in high school (a

LONG time ago :-)). The nerve compression also sometimes results in

numbness and tingling down my left arm. I've got good days and

really bad days. On the bad days I just want to lay in bed as it is

the only way to take the pressure off my neck. Unfortunately that

doesn't happen much since I have three kids and a hubby that might

as well be a fourth kid. Consequently I often just suffer in

silence, as I am sure many of you do.

I am under the care of a pain management doctor and I just completed

another round of physical therapy, which doesn't do a thing to help

the ongoing pain. He's got me on Celebrex and Skelaxin when I need

it. Have to watch the NSAIDs though because I've developed some

stomach/acid reflux problems from taking so many over the past few

years. So most times I don't take any meds and just deal with it,

knowing that eventually I will be able to lay down at night to get

some relief:-)

I'm a very active person, but also spend a lot of time in front of

computers for work, which only puts more tension on my neck. By the

end of the work day I am usually ready to go curl up somewhere and

die, but instead I get to run my kids all over the place for their

various activities.

I'm not a complainer, and actually writing all of this is very hard

for me to do as it feels like I am complaining. Sometimes it just

gets hard to deal with day after day, with no one at home really

knowing what I am going through. Hubby is great and supportive, but

can't understand simply because he has never gone through such an

ordeal. I'm sure many of you can relate to that.

Robin

[Guest guest]

Beth,

Welcome darling woman you are in a good place here. It sounds like you arr

recovering

some memories and Therapy is a good place for you to be. Your mind protects you

from

some things until your psyche is mature enough to start processing it. A

qualified

therapist can help you deal with these things as they bubble up to your

conscienceness.

Your post was DEFINATELY not overly long. We KO's have been unheard in our pain

for so

long that we tend to be a bit long winded when we finally find a place to be

heard and

believed.

Keep at it my dear. It is worth the journey.

Carla