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I have been in severe pain for 4 months now but the docs don't know what's wrong yet. It started 4 months ago after I raked the lawn. My neck hurts all the time so bad at times it shoots pain down my right arm and up into my head. The doc did an MRI and it looks normal. He sent me to a doc that specializes in torn rotar cuffs but I told him the pain starts in my neck not my shoulder, so he just wrote a letter to my doc and told him that he thinks it's a pinched nerve in my neck. That's what I always thought it was but the MRI showed all was normal. I have been on muscle relaxers which don't do a lot except for valum. It helped just a little and vicodine but I hate taking vicodine for too long of a time. I have been to my doc 3 times. I have another appointment in a week. I have been to the ER 2 times for pain shots. My doc has given me 60 vicodine and I filled them July 2 and I almost have them gone.... I every 2-6 hours. I'm using 3 at the most a day... Mainly 2 right away in the morning because I wake up crying, it hurts so bad. Today I almost went to the ER again because it was shooting into my head. They have not taken blood yet, I will tell him to do that next. I am not sleeping good because the pain keeps waking me up. Looking down is painful also. I still think I need to go to a nurolagist because I have had carple tunnel surgery in my right wrist and my right elbow had a pinched nerve also and I had surgery on it. Now it's my right side of my neck mostly but it also radiates through my whole neck. I think he just wants to be the one to diagnose me....lol but that's not fun for me. I just want the pain to go away. I asked him to send me to a arthritas doc to see where I have arthritas but he says I don't need to go yet but I have pain in both knees, both hands, back, and neck..maybe I have arthritas. Does he want to wait till I get all cripled up from it. Sheeesh doctors. I told him it runs in the family. I wounder how I get around the referal part if he doesn't send me to a arthritas doctor? I have medicare and medicade. I hate growing old....lol Well enough about me....I just needed to vent. I'm about to do anything for the pain to stop. I'm going to but a memory foam pillow that has a round side for under my neck, it costs I think $22 but I'm willing to try anything even if it costs more even though I can't afford it. But what else can you do when you are in pain all the time. I'm in agony just looking down to type this.

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