Hi all,
I am sitting here in a bit of pain have been having severe neck pain lately. I have had issues ever since an auto accident back in 1999. My neck especially recently has been more painful causing me to have tension headaches on a pretty much daily basis. the pain is at the base of my skull. I typically take excedrine tension headache for them (that version only has tylenol and caffeine in it so it is easy on the gut) or I take strait tylenol. I am begining to wonder since I do suffer from Crohns related arthritis if maybe the trauma has also caused this to be worse???
It also doesnt help today that someone was following the vehicle we were in today and my boyfriend even motioned to him stop light ahead and the jerk opted to accelerate then threated us in the vehicle telling us get out and he had something in his pocket...we were on our way to pick up his son so we ensured he stopped folling us (evetually) then picked up his son then went to the police station at least we were able to get the make model and plate number off the car...this of course did not help the situation. I have been using heating pads and ice packs on it on and off since that happened and it had been hurting prior. My bf doesnt think that the jolt was strong enough to cause whiplash on me again but not really sure hard to tell when It was hurting earler in the day so I had taken tylenol the pain had subsided until that happened...
Should I see about getting an RA doc I have had them in the past and I DO NOT have RA in all tests they have done but maybe they can help with the current issue??