Help: Neck tightness

[Anonymous]

I’m on a trip to a rural area and can’t see a doctor soon.

What can I do to relieve tightness and pressure in my neck? Lying down feels the best but so can’t remain flying down all day. It’s like the tightness intensifies if I am upright.

I might be able to find a massage therapist here and I can do stretches.

Any suggestions for stretches or anything else that would help?

I didn’t have this until the day before I left and would like to enjoy this vacation!

[Anonymous]

Get a neck brace from the drugstore and wear it in your hotel room when you're alone to let your neck muscles relax. At my worst, I even slept in it. Make sure your pectoral muscles are well stretched too. That and Advil should give you relief.

[Anonymous]

Omg go to a doctor

Stop asking randos on the internet

[Anonymous]

go online and google. Thousands of exercises

[Anonymous]

If there’s a particular muscle group bothering you, I would get a pain patch at a drugstore. Either heat, which is therapeutic, or something like Salonpas.

[Anonymous]

Take ibuprofen. You can go double the amount to get to prescription strength.

[Anonymous]

Massage can help, along with gentle stretching, and physical therapy. Dry needling if nothing else works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a neck brace from the drugstore and wear it in your hotel room when you're alone to let your neck muscles relax. At my worst, I even slept in it. Make sure your pectoral muscles are well stretched too. That and Advil should give you relief.

Thank you! There's a CVS here so I can look for a neck brace there.

To others, yeah, I looked up neck exercises and did those but they didn't help.

After a night of sleep and a hot shower, it's a lot better, thank goodness!! Today, I woke up and tried different stretches and some yoga poses to bring blood into my neck, and those helped a lot.

Sometimes, it seems like blood is not going into my neck. I read that can be due to Dysautonomia: https://thedysautonomiaproject.org/coat-hanger-phenomenon-the-pretzel-leg-sign/

[Anonymous]

I get serious neck pain if I look down at my phone too much

[Anonymous]

Update

My neck tension is gone! Thank you all!

I’ll keep doing the exercises, drinking enough water and so on.

I added somatic exercises today. Feeling so good.

OP