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What Causes Pain In Shoulder And Neck Area While Lying Down?
Every night for the past week when I get into bed, I experience a pain in my shoulder and neck area and a numbness in my right arm and tingling in my hand. This stops if I raise my hand above my head while I lie on my back. It continues on and off through the night as I turn or move and in the morning my hand is tingling for about an hour after I awaken and begin to get ready for work. Then it is gone until the next night.
I have studied your case and I think you are having cervical spondylitis. Pain in neck along with shoulder pain is caused by disc herniation in the neck. It leads to compression of the nerve of shoulder and it causes pain. I have following suggestion for patients with cervical spondylitis. 1. Get MRI to confirm how severe is nerve compression. According to that we can plan further management. 2. Intermittent cervical traction exercise will help. Also neck muscle strengthening exercises is useful. 3. Avoid keeping neck in same position for long time and also do not use very big pillow. 4. Take Pregabalin and Methylcobal for shoulder pain. Muscle relaxant like Myoril or Myospaz is helpful for neck pain. I hope these measures will be helpful in you. Let me know if there is any other followup questions. thanks
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What Causes Pain In Shoulder And Neck Area While Lying Down?
I have studied your case and I think you are having cervical spondylitis. Pain in neck along with shoulder pain is caused by disc herniation in the neck. It leads to compression of the nerve of shoulder and it causes pain. I have following suggestion for patients with cervical spondylitis. 1. Get MRI to confirm how severe is nerve compression. According to that we can plan further management. 2. Intermittent cervical traction exercise will help. Also neck muscle strengthening exercises is useful. 3. Avoid keeping neck in same position for long time and also do not use very big pillow. 4. Take Pregabalin and Methylcobal for shoulder pain. Muscle relaxant like Myoril or Myospaz is helpful for neck pain. I hope these measures will be helpful in you. Let me know if there is any other followup questions. thanks