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What Could Have Caused Severe Back Pain, Headache, Dizziness And Nausea?
A week and a half ago, I threw out my lower back causing severe pain. I went to se my GP and he prescribed me anit-inflamatory pills for 2 weeks (Celebrex). This past Saturday following a shower, I decided to rest a little longer and crawled back into bed for about another hour. Upon getting up, I stretched and got up kind of abruptly and I immediately experienced something like I have never experienced: neck pain, excruciating headhead like never experienced, dizziness, sweats, nausea, vomiting and ringing of the left ear. All these symptoms lasted about 15 minutes, but the neck and headache about 8 hours. At bedtime, I feel dizziness and neck pain. What happened to me. Do I have vertigo, did I experience a mini strook or does this have to do with my lower back pain.
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Fri, 30 May 2014
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neck pain and headache,vertigo could be due to cervicalspondylitis so consult your GP again for anti-vertigo medicine adddition.Do not panic and take complete rest in bed and continue celebrex for another 10 days.Apply muscle relaxant gel to neck and back.
Also have your blood pressure checked just in case it is low or abnormally high to account for dizzy symptoms.
Use a cervical collar to restrict neck movement till dizziness subsides.Thenafter do isometric eck exercises learig it from a physical therapist
Regards
neck pain and headache,vertigo could be due to cervicalspondylitis so consult your GP again for anti-vertigo medicine adddition.Do not panic and take complete rest in bed and continue celebrex for another 10 days.Apply muscle relaxant gel to neck and back.
Also have your blood pressure checked just in case it is low or abnormally high to account for dizzy symptoms.
Use a cervical collar to restrict neck movement till dizziness subsides.Thenafter do isometric eck exercises learig it from a physical therapist
Regards
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