I pulled a muscle in my neck on Saturday.
I did it again last night.
I, apparently, should not hold my head at a certain angle. I tried to explain to Boy Roommate and his Not Girlfriend how this situation all started (my jaw muscles clenched from chewing a piece of gum into concrete) but they thought there might be another root cause. They are just so very funny.
ANYWAY, since this all started, I've been fighting a headache. And by fighting I mean whining. It wasn't bad. More of a dull ache than anything substantial. I'm of the mindset that I don't take any pills of any kind unless life will cease to exist without them. And while a dull ache is annoying, life was bound to go on.
Until last night.
I have NEVER had a headache that bad in my entire life, and I've hit my head QUITE a few times. (Shut it, you. And to be perfectly honest, this was the worst headache I actually REMEMBER having. Others might have been worse, but they've been washed away by the concussion that followed or the mere haziness of youth.)
For a moment I thought I might have meningitis but a quick trip to WebMD knocked me off THAT hypocondriac bandwagon and back into the far more rational rhelm of pulled neck muscle and that sumbitch HURTS! I mean damn. It's one thing to hurt where I pull you. But it is another thing ENTIRELY to wrap your greedy self around my head like a blanket and turn me into a pill-popping, whiney, little bitch.
I DO NOT NEED HELP IN THAT AREA.
I could not keep my eyes open last night as I BEGGED my nursing student roommate to kill me. Instead, she gave me permission to chase my Advil with two more Tylenol. I then laid down and willed sleep to come quickly. That or death. Whichever made my head stop hurting first.
I've continued this pill concoction into today.. twice.. and I plan to do it again. My mother suggested I go to the doctor, which is probably the smartest idea, but I'm afraid whatever I did is going to require a specialized doctor and I don't know if my insurance will cover that. So for now, I whine.
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Go to the chiropracter. You may have moved your jaw out of alignment. (I have TMJ so you do have a family history. Sorry!!) Every time my chiropractor puts my jaw and neck back in alignment I feel INSTANT releif. Most medical insurance now covers 12 visits a year. Like I aid I feel relief in one visit. (And I have a spinal injury so that is saying A LOT!!!)
In the meantime, try gently icing it in case there is swelling. It doesn't take a lot of swelling to create agonizing pain from the jaw, so you may not see it.
Love you!!
See, someone agrees with me about TMJ!
Andrew is wise.
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