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Dealing with my neck injury: Headaches, Pain, Anxiety
This is my story of dealing with mild herniation, bulging disc, cervical kyphosis, and subluxation at the same time. I’ll share with you how the pain emerged, more about my diagnosis, suspected culprits, and my home remedies for easing neck pain. I’m pouring my sorrow into this “piece of art”, with the hope that sharing my experience would serve as guidance and help at least a tiny bit to anyone who is fighting with cervical injury.
Pain onset:
It’s been nine months already, since the first signs of my neck pain occurred in April 2020. At first, it began showing up in the bed — mostly when I was laying down on one side, or the other. This new irritating sensation felt just as something there was being pinched very, very nasty. The desire to crack this thing, and get my neck mobility back to normal build-up, as the pain advanced and moved into my practice on the mat, and later on in my daily life as well.
Things continued to escalate, when one beautiful morning I looked out the window and a sun-ray stroke back into my eyes. All of a sudden, I stopped seeing properly with my right eye, an intensified white flashing light occurred instead. “Hell no!” — I thought, “It’s gonna be a hard long day.”
This was the bad old indicator for an upcoming throbbing migraine, with which I’ve…
