About 12 days ago I woke up with a bad crick in my neck. Which isn t unusual because our bed sucks. After a few days the pain seemed to be getting worse. It s now spreading throughout my left shoulder and down my arm, the spasms come and go whether I m sitting still, sleeping or working. The pain is extreme, I cannot express enough how EXTREMELY painful this is. It s not a constant pain, in fact, sometimes it feels fine, nothing more than a little soreness. I finally broke down last Saturday morning, early and went to the ER. The doc said it was a cervical sprain and he prescribed muscles relaxers and tramadol. The muscle relaxers help a little but the tramadol are absolutely useless. Can someone please tell me what this is, I m not sure how long I can take this pain! .