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slept:6.5
Neck pain woke me up just before sunrise, maybe because I've only taken one ibuprofen since Saturday - a big decrease from last week. I'm still hurting a little but the improvement since Friday's chiro appointment has been phenomenal. Hiking Raid The Rib didn't affect it at all.
I can't move my neck all the way in any direction but I can get 80-90% of the way before the pain kicks in - huge progress. The exception is when I turn my head 45 degrees to either side, then try to lower my chin to my chest. Ouch - good thing that doesn't come up very often.
Some takeaways from the experience:
1) Holy shite - pain in and around your brain is the absolute worst. Forget about anything on your "to do" list. Give me knee and ankle pains any day.
2) When pain keeps you from sleeping properly for days, your brain becomes mush and things seem hopeless. My sleep hours last week look better than they felt because they were the total of short naps over a 24-hr period. There wasn't much REM sleep for 4 nights.
3) When you see me slouching, please poke me between the shoulder blades - hard. Bad posture is riskier than I knew.
4) Yay, universal health care - even though it doesn't cover chiro treatments for random neck pain so I paid full freight. Total cost to feel human again: 3 appointments with 2 healthcare practitioners and 1 prescription: $129 Canadian.