Literal pain in the neck

 Good news.  Since Christmas, I had been covering Front Desk a lot, plus also training new starters, meaning that I had been working strange and awful hours.  That is now finished I hope.  

My neck (crick) and shoulders have also been very bad for the last month or so.  It started on the left side and I started immediate treatment with NSAID's for a straight two weeks.  Just as the left got better it moved to the right - not as painful, but still quite bad.  I did a few more days of NSAID's and then started really focusing on treating now and preventing in the future.  After doing my peloton class I started doing stretching exercises, swimming and doing pool exercises in the evening and went for an expensive but BRILLIANT massage.  Next week I am thinking of doing a bikram class on Monday.  The heat and the stretching will do it the world of good I think. Am feeling a little worried for the future, I seem to be getting this pain yearly if not even 6 monthly.  Really need to be proactive and stay on top of it now - stretching daily etc.

And I really want it better for two weeks' time when we are going BACK to Las Vegas to see U2 - need to be able to throw my head back and look at all the views in the Sphere!

Pain in my neck (literal)

Three weekends ago I woke up with a slight crick in my neck/pain in my neck and shoulder. The next day the pain was so bad that I couldn't lift my arms above my head to get dressed and I was in extreme pain getting in and out of bed (i.e. sitting up or turning on my side to sit up).

Since then, while it did improve of course, I still have pain.  To date I've gone for a massage and gone to the *chiropractor. I've been swimming in the pool daily.  But it is still not gone!  Every evening before bed is the worst, and I take two ibuprofen in order to sleep. 

Am coming to my wit's end about it.  But I am also trying to stay hopeful and think positive.  Maybe it just needs time.  I've read online that neck/shoulder pain should not last more than month (it is a real problem if it does!), so fingers crossed!!