about 2 years ago, I was drying my hair w/ a towel and had a sudden sharp pain in my lower neck by my right shoulder. The pain shot up my neck to the right middle part of the back of my head. It felt as if it went up, to the right and then branched out like tree roots. Like all the blood was instantly sucked out. It knocked me to the ground for about 60 seconds. I didn't have health insurance (full-time student, part-time worker) at the time. The back of my head hurt for awhile, but has gotten better. Now, when I sleep in a certain position for too long, or carry heavy equipment, it hurts the back of my head in the "tree roots" spot. Is this something to be concerned about? I worked in a 1-hr photo lab, and the day after it happned I tried to lift the 30-lb paper magazine over my head onto the printer, and I dropped it, b/c of the massive pain to the spot in the back of my head. It seems it was caused by that repeated motion several times/day at work. Will the pain go away?
2006-07-28 10:34:53 · 4 answers · asked by Becky 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
That's a nerve issue. Not artery or vein.
There are pressure points in your neck - that you can depress and pass out from. Usually that entails cutting off blood supply to the brain from a main artery by pinching it, then you pass out only takes a couple of seconds if the pressure is correct.
The tree roots sounds like a shooting branching pain from a nerve injury. Pain traveling up a "nerve branch".
Don't lift anything incorrectly, and 30 pounds over your head is totally incorrect lifting procedure.
Sounds like a workers compensation injury to me.
Find out if you are covered and see a doctor.
2006-07-28 10:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by alwaysbombed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a doctor. Let me say that again. I'm not a doctor.
This sounds familiar from family.
Something occurred in your carotid artery. That artery supplies blood to your brain, on both sides of your neck.
Sorry, it damned near sounds like a clot passed to your brain.
I had that shooting feeling in my knee to the thigh while sleeping. It was a clot and needed surgery. Had it gone to my lung, kaput.
See a damned doctor, ASAP.
2006-07-28 10:42:57 · answer #2 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-16 07:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you didn't see the Dr i think you should it sounds like maybe a nerve problem maybe one is pinched if that is the case and it is still pinched the pain probably wont go away until the problem is fixed
2006-07-28 10:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by april v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have health insurance now?
You really need to have it checked out if at all possible, It could be that you pulled something out of place or something more serious, Please have it checked out.
2006-07-28 10:42:49 · answer #5 · answered by brown.gloria@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋