Anyone know with a pinched nerve or muscle strain in your neck
(my symptoms: shoulder pain, neck pain radiating into face with headaches, occassional tingling/numbness in neck & twitching below shoulder)
why having a few beers would make that pain extreme and uncontrollable?
Typically, I'm okay taking Darvocet & Ibuprofen but I found out in a really bad way that I had to quit drinking to keep that pain under control.
I do not understand it.
I am not a heavy drinker either, I just liked one a day to calm my anxiety. Even that makes the pain worse, yet it takes a few to really spin things out of control. But GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. It's not fair!
one 'possibilty" here,and this IS only one possible connection. from what you have described here it sounds like this is more symptomatic in the head/face,then goes down into the neck area? the only real connestion i know of between alcohol and the brain and what "could' possibly be exascerbating symptoms would be right where the alcohol has its strongest impact,the cerebellum. the anti siezure types of meds that are used most often in trying to actually control the more obscure/neuropathic/ nerve related type pain also hit that cerebellum hard, that is where they DO their work once they are metabolized.
when you consider just that alone, while i don't truely understand that whole mode of action, i would imagine since the two things do their "work" in that very same area, there has to be something within that cerebellum that does have a direct impact upon nerves in some way. do you understand what i am trying to say?
its just that alcohol very very much hits the cerebellum and that is what also governs some vision,our gait and our priopercetion. that is why all those things get so screwed up when alcohol is on board. the tests that the cops do when you get pulled over for a suspected DWI are all related to just how alcohol impacts that cerebellum too. alcohol just slowly anesthetizes the brain and makes it go to 'sleep".
but i digress, i really do think that simply obtaing an MRI on your brain and that c spine area could possibly reveal what may be connecting these two things. it just very much sounds like you do have some level of nerve involvement here in some way at some level. that MRI just may reveal it much better than any other type of test for now. using the contrast too would help alot in just helping to better highlight areas that don't really show up all that well upon plain MRI,espescially when you are looking into the brain itself. hope i didn't confuse you even more. i am like that sometimes. please keep me posted, Marcia
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I have had alot of headaches from just one beer. I can't say what starts first, the neck or face pain. It seems though the upper part of my neck is causing the facial pain. Without the alcohol, it begins in my neck but doesn't take long before it hurts elsewhere. I would have to drink again to figure that out & it's not worth it. It did get so bad that I couldn't hold my head up without it hurting & went to a chriopracter for awhile having my bones cracked for relief of pain.
Yes I understand somewhat. I was wondering if maybe I developed an allergy but maybe I didn't. Or what if it was my liver?
I also kept getting urinary tract infections and my bladder went insane until I quit drinking.
The idea of drinking one a day for anxiety turned out to not be such a good idea..
I will talk to my doctor about it when I see him again but I seriously doubt he's going to suggest an MRI or any type of testing whatsover.
I have fibromyalgia. He will assume anything wrong with me is likely nothing more than something that is unexplainable.
But it's okay, if he can keep my pain calm, I won't complain. Last time I saw him, I talked to him about this whole neck/face/headache issue. At the time, the tingling/numbness wasn't occuring right there where I was hurting & I wasn't having twitches but the pain would get so out of control, nothing would help, but taking 3 Ambien at a time, so I'd pass out, until the pain went away. I've only had one time since to have this pain go out of control again, and it was because of the beer I drank.
I've always liked to occassionally drink, I think that is a habit I will have to kiss goodbye.
I have something on my liver, what appears as decreased attenuation & a 1.2cm spot, of what, I do not know, cyst, tumor? My gastro finds it necessary enough to do a contrast CT this summer. However if she is thinking something silly like cancer, there's no way. It's been there for awhile. I do not lose weight without trying, I gain. Went from 145 to 160 lbs lately. Hopefully it's nothing though, I hate to think my liver might be diseased from all that drinking I did when I was a teenager. It hasn't grown and there isn't any other tumors there. So if she thought there was even a small possibility of it being cancer, makes no sense. I hope she's not that silly. Still, I worry what if there is some disease process. Well heck, my liver function tests are okay. My liver enzymes are normal 99% of the time. So who cares.
I like your explaination the best. LOL. Thank you for helping.
Last edited by neveragain444; 03-23-2009 at 10:26 AM.
OMG the pain is coming back today. OR last night it really started in, not that I couldn't tolerate it, but I've about reached that point today.
No, I haven't been drinking.
But what if your right, would a medication that blocks nerve pain likely help this problem?
My doctor had me on Darvocet/Flexeril for awhile and it helped for awhile, then we went to Darvocet/Ibuprofen and it has helped keep the pain from getting worse, except for the incident with the beer, and today, it's not phasing me.
He gave me Lortab but I gave the prescription back. It doesn't phase this pain. He talked about putting me on Percocet I think, but it was just talk.
Okay by me because I don't want a strong + addictive pain pill. I just want the pain controlled without having to swallow down 3 sleeping pills at a time.
I wouldn't even let him prescribe me that stuff. He'd probaby think then I was just making this up to get on the junk. I don't know. It's hard to say what he thinks... He's such a sweet doctor, you wouldn't think he'd be one of those jerky doctors that do that, but then again, you never know.
But that's not the case. I am seriously doing some suffering. I think I'll ask him about the medication to block nerve pain though. And that way he won't think I'm some kind of alcoholic drug addict. LOL.
I had a case of Lyme Disease, which also caused my fibromyagia years ago, and also triggered problems with alcohol and exerbation of symtoms and body aches and whatnot. I had tiredness and sleepiness, then sleeplessness the farther it progressed and I also had neurological symtoms like you describe.
Just something to think about or if you were tested for things like that prior to your fibro diagnosis. Just tripped a memory in my brain so I figured I'd post you.
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