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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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 Posted - 11/04/2009 : 04:57:01
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About three weeks ago my wife comes home from a business trip and has a horrible stiff neck. She eventually goes to her doctor, on my recommendation because it appeared so bad, and the doctor gives here muscle relaxers (aka sedatives), tells her to put heat on it, and has her do regular neck exercises. Two weeks go by and it eventually goes away.
Starting yesterday morning on the way to work I get the EXACT SAME STIFF NECK. I haven't had a stiff neck/upper back pain in 10+ years and never in my life like this. I exercise regularly and haven't done anything physicially out of the ordinary. I can't help but wonder is there some kind of virus that could do something like this??? I've never heard of anything like it.
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-Chaloobi
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 05:06:37 [Permalink]
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| Chance happens to everyone C, heat if it's a pulled muscle, cold if its a pinched nerve. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2009 : 05:45:13 [Permalink]
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| Right, I know. But is it totally off the wall that this could be a virus? Who would ever think to check if it was? But on the other hand, it should be causing a fever if it was..... weird. |
-Chaloobi
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 05:56:58 [Permalink]
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Not all pathogenic viruses (or viri, depending on your school of thought) cause a fever.
It seems unlikely to me that a pathogen would cause such a single, specific, localized symptom though.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 06:24:33 [Permalink]
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Bacterial meningitis could do that, except that you'd have other symptoms and your wife would be dead by now.
What's more likely is that in the middle of the night, while you're asleep, your wife is doing horrible things to your neck while whispering, "share my pain!" |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 13:47:15 [Permalink]
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| I feel your pain......literally, in this case. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Ever Hear Of Someone Catching A Stiff Neck?
