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Richard G.

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Been doing a lot of mechanic work lately on my tractors and my Dodge truck. Have had a crick in my neck for about 3 days. Woke up this morning about 4:30 hurting like you know what. Went to lay down in another room so not to disturb my wife. Neck, side of face, shoulder, and arm had about more pain than I could bear. Got so much to do and just don't feel like it. Got a Model T engine to build, a trip to Kentucky coming up, getting ready for sorghum cooking and all the other stuff that always comes up.
Well, I'll stop complaining now.
Richard in NW SC
 
With the pain down the neck, shoulder and down the arm I would be seeing a doctor it might be more than just to much work. Its better to safe than sorry.
 
"Neck, side of face, shoulder, and arm had about more pain than I could bear."

I agree with D. Beatty.

A guy showed up here early one morning to haul some cattle for me. Got out of his truck complaining of the same pains. Tried to talk him to the emergency room, made him mad, so I shut up. I got the cattle on the trailer, and as he was pulling away, I called his wife and sicced her on him. She intercepted him up the road, and he had four or five bypasses that afternoon. That was a couple of years ago. Yesterday morning he came to haul an old bull away, and got out of his truck with a big grin on his face.

What's your wife's phone number?
 
I'm with you on that. I've had trouble with my back off and on all summer. I had to fix a drain where it comes out of the side of the house the Friday before Memorial Day. Got all done,picked up my tools and started walking toward the shop. I about dropped to my knees when something locked up. I spent most of the month of June hurting like all get out.

I was doing pretty good until a week ago Sunday. I put some new switches in a tractor and couldn't hardly straighten up when I got done. Had to shovel some corn and move an auger when I ground feed the other day and was about having to crawl to get around the last few days. I don't have a bit of trouble thinking of all the things I need to be doing when I'm laid out in pain. I felt something pop in my lower back night before last just before I fell asleep. Guess something went back in,but the muscles are still swollen so bad it's making my pants tight in the back. I can see why people apply for disability when I'm hurting this bad.
 
Take the advice and get to your doctor or emergency room. My brother had those same symptoms and he had a minor stroke. Hal
 
More than a decade ago I was moving timbers off a sawmill and had my first back attack. That mis-alignment will drop you to the ground in a hurry. Childbirth I haven"t experienced, and this is enough.

I"ll see a doc when they have a cure, other than fused discs. In the meantime, a yoga instructor friend gave me a book that explained what goes wrong and what to do when it does. More importantly, it also explains what to do to prevent those episodes.

I"ll never have the back I once had, but other than the dumb abuse I once did, I"m back to doing my normal things. AFTER I do some specific stretching every morning. Today I"ll drop a 70" oak and process it. While working, I"m very tuned in to what my back is telling me. When it is time to do something different, I do.

The book that gave me my life back is "Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie, a physical therapist. ISBN 0-9597746-6-1.

Good luck.
 
Richard G.,
These guys are right -- better to be safe that sorry. Get someone to drive you to the doctor right away... preferably to an emergency room.

What you are experiencing can be major signs/symptoms of either a heart attack or a stroke.
 
Sorry to be thinking on the dark side but it could be your heart. I'm with everyone else get to the doctor now.
 
Feeling pretty old and depressed today too, had a sore shoulder and right side of my neck for four or five years plus pulled muscles, sore knees and back. End of last year was pretty painful so I retired on 64th b day. After six weeks I noticed everything was feeling better except my neck and shoulder, couple months ago arm started tingling and going numb.
Orthopedic dr did neck/shoulder mri, shoulder's got tendinitis and bursitis and neck is degenerative discs
Got an aptt tomorrow with a spine surgeon and ain't slept very good the last few days, retirement hasn't worked out as planned.
 
Wish I could say I do not understand but I feel with you. Baled around 150 bales yesterday small squares and they are still on the trailer. Figure I'll go out later and stack them maybe 10 or so then take a break. To hot out to just stay out and put them in the barn plus to painful. But hey look at it this way sure better then the alternative. LOL
 
I have had one in my neck for what seems like a couple of years. It get worse in the spring and again in the fall. I may have to install a couple more mirrors on my tractors. I'm thinking it would be easier on my neck not having to turn around and watch what I'm pulling behind them. Which is what is causing the problem. After a bout with cancer and a few other things its the least of my worries though. I don't like getting old either but I'm just glad I'm alive and kicking still.
 
I have had two heart attack the first I didn't get excited finally went to doctor that afternoon almost died right there. Second one I call the 911 immediately was the smartest thing I have ever done I don't want to hear from you until after your visit to the emergency room.
Walt Davies
Still alive and going strong.
 
Unfortunately old age is an affliction that does not get better with time, but if you have it a long time you'll live to a ripe old age.

Areo
 
exact systoms of my major heart attack! now I have a badly damaged heart because I thought tuffing it thru, was the thing to do!
 
Looks like the consensus is to GO SEE A DOCTOR!!
Even if it turns out to be just muscular, at least you'll know. And If its not! You can get help early enough to be good.
 
I"ve had several heart attacks, and a quadruple
bypass, at Mayo Clinic, now another partial
blockage that they"re watching,(stint scheduled)
I"ve got too much to do, and not enough time!
YOU take the time to see the Doctor ! !
If you walk into emergency, and say: "I think I"m
having a heart attack", it"s amazing how fast you
go to the front of the line!
 
Better check it out.. Sure wish I had not ignored my symptoms for so long.. IF it is heart-related, time makes a big difference.
 
Well Richard , did you go to the ER?

Without question yours are classic heart attack symptons !
Best
Kajun
 
Get to a doctor NOW.

A local fellow who has an auto repair shop had a heart attack in his shop one afternoon. He did three things:

1. Took a couple of aspirin.
2. Called 911.
3. Turned on the oxygen on his acetelyn welder and breathed pure oxygen till the rescue unit got there.

The EMT's said he saved himself by breathing the oxygen. That's something to remember.
 
For a little more than two years I have had very severe pain in my lower back, shoulders, knees and hands. Was taking aspirins, arthritis pain pills up to 4 times a week with little results. The wife told me that doctors tell women to stop drinking any thing with carbonated water in it. It is said that carbonated water takes the calcium from the bones and joints. So I quit completely. 10 days later I quit hurting. I not only feel better, I also feel stronger now.
 
Good to hear it worked for others, not that I had any doubt. And probably you use your book like I do, as a loaner now. Does not take long to learn what to do, then just a matter of doing it.
 
Hey GAB, been there done that. Your discs are gone and letting your C1,C2 and C3 vert. come together and pinch your nerves going out through between them and also pinching your spinal cord. It's called cervicle spondylosis. It won't get any better but it will get worse and you will lose even control of the muscles that control bowel and bladder. Once it gets that far you won't get it back even with surgery. GET THE SURGERY,NOW. They will go in and grind and space those vert. apart and fuse them so they stay apart. It will take a while for the nerves to repair but not doing it is liable to leave you in a wheel chair. Mine went mis-diagnosed to long and both arms and one leg were going numb. After surgery , I had to re-learn how to walk and tie shoes etc. It's been a year now and left arm/hand is still half dead and have a lot of muscle spasms because nerves are firing opposite nuscles working against each other causing extreme exhaustion.Getting better but wish I had it done a year or two earlier. I had other retirement plans also but it could be worse. Let us know what your MRI and neurologist say. Good luck. Randy.
 
I would check in with your Doctor to get some kind of diagnosis. I have a few health problems and have found the Doctor visit is the easiest. It is the lab,xray,mri, waiting everywhere even the pharmacy,etc,etc that can be time consuming and expensive at times. I guess the way to look at it is that we have services available.
Remember you have plenty of company fifty percent of doctor visits are pain related.
Good luck and I hope for quick relief for you.
 
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