Sunday, January 30, 2011

The tale of the MRI and the sprained neck

Today I yawned and stretched lightly and ended up with a sprained neck.
I shit you not.
That's what life with Fibromyalgia literally is... a pain in the neck....caused by the silliest thing imaginable.

But the pain isn't silly. It was/is staggering in intensity. Just the weight of my own arm resting against my body hurts it. I have been doping myself silly since it began cause the other fun part of Fibromyalgia is that the pain doesn't subside. My endorphins don't kick in.


In other news, I had the MRI today.. no contrast though...just plain old MRI. For those who have no idea what it entails...They basically slide you into a tight tube and make lots of loud noises around you. And if it's with contrast, they inject an isotope into you that lights you up like a roman candle on film. That's it in a nutshell. It's boring and hell for anyone claustrophobic but otherwise it's easy.

I am nervous, though. I really hope they don't find anything.


On the positive side... the pain in my neck made the MRI seem like a vacation at least. I had to just lie there. Nice.

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