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

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

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/

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

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

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.

go online and google. Thousands of exercises

Omg go to a doctor

Stop asking randos on the internet

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.

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!