Saturday- Dealing with Neck Pain
ICE AND HEAT for Degenerative Disc Disease and Bone Spurs in the Neck
This chronic illness support blog is intended to help those of you with chronic illness. I am dealing with neck problems currently. To respond please email me at wholyfit@live.com
Ice for 15 off and 15 minutes on is great for inflamation and calms down the swelling between the vertebrae. I had to wake up in the night and ice my neck because I can feel that the spinal fluid is not getting up to my brain. My brain feels dry and cloudy- does that make sense? The bone spurs on C7 are cutting into the sac that the spinal fluid flows through- the MRI said that the sac is crimped right up to the spinal cord. No occlusion of the spinal chord - yet - but the occlusion needs to be halted NOW. That’s the benefit of decreasing the inflammation with ICE.
Heat is for the nuscles of the shoulders that become tight due to degenerative disc disease and bone spurs poking into the spinal chord and discs in the neck. We’ve got to release those muscles so that the curvature of the spine can go back to a healthy 36 degree curve. So simplistically, I use this rule: Ice for the bones (hard tissue), Heat for the muscles (soft tissue).
My husband is having dreams that I’m hurt and there is nothing he can do. For example, last night he dreamed that I was kidnapped. Chronic illness is also an emotional drain on those who love us.
Lord, please heal me, please educate me to cooperate in Your miraculous healing by whatever means You have detirmined. In Jesus’ Name.
I pray this prayer for all of you with chronic illness, whether it is neck pain, fibromyalgia, MS, Epstein Barre Virus, Asthma, Rheumatoid arthritis, Degenerative disc disease, bone spurs, I pray in Jesus’ Name, Lord, that You will heal those who are sick for “BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED”. You suffered and bore the stripes for our healing and we believe You Lord. Heal us. In Jesus’ Name. Amen but not goodbye..