A Pain in the neck..literally.

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How is everyone doing this evening? Today is Thursday, about 845PM, and I had an interesting day, although it's far from over yet. I kind of have taken a short break from myLot, mainly just because I have been busy doing this and that and not exercising as much as usual, which is normally my time to catch up on my MyLotting. BUT I have also been dealing with this super annoying and painful neck "injury". I am calling it an injury, even though I did not really DO anything to INJURE it, but I woke up on Sunday morning with EXTREME shooting pain down the right side of my neck when I moved in certain directions, sending a sharp pain down my right shoulder and back area and the pain persisted into today, which felt like unsually persistent for something like sleeping on your neck/shoulder wrong. I have just never experienced anything like it; this sharp pain when trying to move my head. It made driving nearly impossible and extremely painful and just made my weekend kind of crappy as a result because I really felt like I couldn't "enjoy myself". I had been using a heating pad, ibuprofen, icy/hot patches, massaging it, trying to do different exercise, and NOTHING seemed to be working. Agh! After a coworker talked me into it, I ran up to an urgent care to get seen quick and am glad I did, The doctor determined I had a "trapezius strain", which is solvable and should heal in a week or so with the help of anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants, and a "cervical pillow" I had never heard of a cervical pillow, and apparently my local Targets and Walmarts had not either. The doctor thought this would make the biggest difference, however, I had to order one on Amazon, which will take at minimum a few days. They said to come back if it worsened, if I started feeling tingling in any limbs, or if the pain has not gone away in 7 days. 7 days feels like a lifetime, especially since I will be taking off for a trip to Mexico on Saturday. I am bummed at this timing, but GLAD it doesn't have anything to do with a disc OR with my spinal cord, which could be SUPER bad. Have you ever had anything like this, neck pain OR persistent pain caused from sleeping wrong? Or have you ever heard of a cervical pillow? Hope everyone has been having a good week.