Welcome to the first post of my new blog. Normally I am not a blogging type person and certainly not the first to complain to the world about difficulties I am experiencing, however, a recent trauma I received to my neck made me think my experience could be useful to others as well.

I would like to tell my story in depth so please allow me to begin at the beginning. I’m an IT specialist working at home. That means I have to spend at least several hours sitting on a PC or a laptop. Recently, I had a large project I had to work on, so I sat all night working on it and by the morning, I began to feel a strange pressure and stiffness in my neck, as well as strange lightheaded mind fog. My reaction to these strange feelings was self-massage of neck and upper area of the back. The stiffness of the neck only increased. So I walked to my bed, where (I know it’s stupid, but) in an attempt to improve blood circulation I stood on my head (and hands at the same time) on the bed.

Blood rushed to my head and my cheeks started burning and vision became dark for a moment. I quickly came back to my feet again and started to feel normal again. Then I did some crunches and went to fetch some water. Feeling the same as I did before standing on my head and doing crunches (still with neck stiffness and lightheadedness) I continued to work as I needed only half an hour more. However, after a few minutes of work, I started to feel sudden overwhelming weakness. I immediately understood that something is wrong and walked to the bed slowly and laid down. My heart rate increased quickly, my limbs went cold in a few seconds and I started to shiver. I felt very weak and a continued weird emptiness on the chest. Scared of a heart attack or something like that, I quickly drank a glass of water mixed with cayenne pepper (I’ve read that it’s the only thing that can stop a heart attack in progress: http://www.sott.net/article/225325-Capsaicin-could-stop-a-heart-attack-in-progress-scientists-find ) and called an emergency phone and tried to explain that I might be experiencing a heart attack. To my utmost horror I had a hard time to control my tongue and jaw while talking, as if I was drunk. I managed to explain the situation however, and when ambulance arrived in ~15 minutes my symptoms had already subsided. The ambulance workers had assured me that this is not a heart attack and took me to the hospital for further analysis. Since I had failed to mention the fact that I stood on my head, to my doctor, she simply took a blood test and cardiogram – both of which showed healthy results! So I was released and told that I am perfectly healthy and… simply panicked… Wrong…

If the reader deems my experience useful in treating their own neck (or other) problems, then please read the part 2 of my story, which will include information about the condition I was finally diagnosed with and treatments I tried up to now (it’s still an ongoing issue..). I will try to complete the part 2 later this week.

Thanks for reading!