Cervical Spine Involvement | Arthritis Information

Do you have RA involvement in the cervical spine? If so, can you tell me what it feels liike?

I've been having some problems with my neck. It is painful right underneath the skull. Every now and then, I'll go to move my head and I get this very painful crack/pop. After, it feels a little better. I had an x-ray which showed osteoarthritis and DDD in the lower cervical spine, which I already knew I had. This doesn't feel like the lower part of the cervical spine. The pain gets so bad sometimes that I end up with a horrible headache.

I think that is called a tension headache. I know what you mean it feels RA related. I think it is more muscular. You may want am mri to be sure.

I have it as we speak. I took a muscle relaxer last night. My neck was stiff and so was the lower back. Popping in the spine area is actually the ligaments. We tend to get popping in our joints and confuse the two.

Anyway I took the muscle relaxer and was rubbing a stiff muscle in my lower back. when the muscle relaxer kicked in my spine started popping all of the way from the lower back up to my head as you are speaking. However the noise came from my ligaments not actually my spine.

Best maybe to get it checked out to be sure what the cause is. It is easy to injure yourself they say you can buldge a disk as easily as coughing. Then there is a thing called fibro that is less than pleasant also.

I took a recent stumble and I ended up hurting in the muscles in the back of my neck at the base of my head. I have had this without stumbleing also. I have a few buldged disk in my neck and the flare from time to time. I also have arthritis at the bottom of my neck outside the spine so who knows.

Can fibromyalgia cause pain in the neck too? I actually had an appointment with my doctor to talk about these places all over my body that hurts which I was thinking was fibro, but my head and neck hurt so bad when I was in there that we talked only about that. She ran the x-ray and suggested therapy or shots. I opted for a chiropractor. My headaches are better, but the neck is still very painful.Many many moons ago i was dx'ed with head to toe fibro. I get it in my face. The front of my neck even gets fibro and it feels like I had a bad face lift. That is it hurts under my chin in the front of my neck and the chin itself.

I get it in my chest really bad it feels like I have a tight gerdel around my chest and ribs. I just wish it was a bigger sized girdel. So the answer is yes you can get it in your neck. Head to toe means head to toe. Sometimes the tendons in the side of my neck get all hard and stiff and stick out the side of my neck. If you feel the back of your neck there is a tendon that runs all of the way up to the base of your scull. Mine gets very hard and stiff. Wow it hurts when that happens.

Like you I have some arthritis going on at the bottom of my neck and I think the two fibro and arthritis tend to go hand and hand.

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yes yes yes! I have this SAME pain. Not all the time.. but sometimes more than others.. and sometimes it feels like I want something ELSE to hold my head up cause it's aching.

I have DDD and stenosis w/ encroachments onto the chord... but the last three inches into the skull sometimes hurt more than anything!! and other times it's the point where the first rib attaches

I dont' know that this is ... but I keep saying I need to see an orthopede...... and I think they will be able to help w/ my answers