Dear Jenni - I can't believe this has happened on top of everything else. I can't offer any advice on support but the memory foam orthopaedic pillows are very good for when you are resting. I wouldn't be surprised if all the stress and tension you have been going through has contributed to this. Did you manage to get a new hospital appointment sorted out? Take care.

Julie

I have two collapsed discs in my neck which give me a painful neck because my nerve gets trapped and sends the pain and pins and needles down my left shoulder Jenni.
I don't know if you can do this but to release the nerve I try to tuck my chin into my chest and hold it for as long asd I can. Not easy and sometimes it works, sometimes not!

((( Jenni ))) I suffer with my neck and I know how much it hurts and how draining it is. I tend to use a hot water bottle, a heated wheat bag which goes round the neck and a V shaped pillow and a memory foam pillow. I used muscle relaxant tabs as well as my muscles tense up which add to the pain.

Hope you get an improvement soon.

Hugs

Deb x

Hello Jenni,you poor love with another painful problem. I can only suggest the warm wheat bag or a tens. Do you think that you should get it looked at by the Doc. You know all that you have been through and the drugs that you were given at the hospital and having to be resusitated you may have been damaged and there maybe something that can be fixed. It may not be the RA causing it and I know you are sick of being messed about but I m concerned about all the things that you put up with. Love Glenys x

I go along with what Glenys says...... get your neck checked by a Dr. When I had an unstable neck/subluxed C3 vertebrae onto C4/broken back, call it what you will, I didn't have that much pain and yet the consequences could have been major, had I tripped or fallen. Any pain coming from your neck ought to be investigated. RA can make your spine unstable. Hopefully its not as bad as that, but I wouldn't take the risk.