I know that this board isn't for medical advice, but I need to vent.
For the past several months I have had recurrent painful muscle spasms in the right side of my neck down to the bottom of my right shoulder blade. It started when I woke up with torticollis and could not get my neck to untwist. I have flexeril from an old sprain, but it didn't work so I went to the ER, was given valium and vicodin and sent home. I followed up with my primary care, who put me on Skelaxin TID, Naprosyn BID, and Soma at HS, with vicodin for pain.
It didn't work, a week later I'm still spasmed and twisted with huge knots on my shoulder, and now am having numbness and tingling in my fingers. I was placed on bedrest for a week with Soma QID, Naprosyn BID, vicodin for pain. After a week, I slowly was able to regain full ROM in my neck, I finally can move enough to have xrays of the cervical spine, and they are normal.
A month after that it I had sustained spasms in my right shoulder, and had to take Skelaxin TID, Naprosyn BID, and Soma at HS, vicodin for severe pain, it resolved after a week.
3 Weeks later I have spasms in my right shoulder/neck that resolve after 2-3 days on Skelaxin TID and Soma at HS.
2 weeks later I have severely painful sustained spasm in my right shoulder/neck I take my skelaxin, naprosyn, soma and vicodin. It gets progressively worse, it's the weekend, I can't get ahold of my primary care provider. Last night I took a soma, 2 vicodin, and couldn't sleep,( usually this knocks me out, or makes me act extremely sedated). I have deep pain in my shoulder joint, radiating pain to my elbow, and numbness/tingling in my fingers, pain on turning my head to the right when I touch my chin to my chest. My arm aches, but certain movements are painful, DH had to help me pull off my scrub top last night, and lifting my arm above shoulder height is excruciating, and every so often the muscles will spasm even tighter and I just have to grit my teeth 
I see my PCP today, and he says that it doesn't seem like a herniated disk according to the previous Xrays from 2 1/2 months ago. We have no idea what the original injury was, I just woke up like this one day months ago and have been having problems since. He can't tell me an etiology, and in response to my statement that "usually i resolve after awhile on soma, becuase it's stronger, the skelaxin just gets it down to where I can think straight enough to work without being sedated", was to say that "we have something stronger than soma". He doesn't want to refer me for an MRI or CT scan.
So now I am on valium TID with vicodin for pain, and can take naprosyn or ibuprofen ( my choice, whichever seems to work better for me), and I will have Physical therapy with ultrasound 3x a week for 3 weeks. I still have to get in touch with my manager to find out what the heck I'm going to do about work, 'cause I can't go to work on valium.
I AM SICK OF HAVING TO CHOOSE FROM BEING IN PAIN OR FEELING SEDATED!!!!!!!!! 
I am sick of my coworker's and even DH saying "maybe it's stress". I am stressed because IT HURTS and it's scary not knowing what the heck is wrong with me, and why this keeps happening. I can't figure out a rhyme or reason to the flares, it even happened on my honeymoon.
DH used to be in healthcare, and some of my friends are, and it's so frustrating because they just look at me and say, "you just need an outlet for your stress and it'll get better". I feel like they just look at me and think this isn't that serious( if it hurts bad enough that I can't sleep after taking vicodin and soma, it's serious to me). DH says, well you get grumpy, have a meltdown, and then boom your neck hurts. Actually I get grumpy because my neck hurts, and my ability to deal with frustrations goes down to nil if I dont' feel good, and then I have a meltdown and confess that my neck's been hurting.
If PT doesn't work, and this keeps happening, I will be then referred to a specialist and may have to get Botox injections, but my PCP is hopeful it won't get to that point, but we still don't know why this is happening.
Ok, I think I feel a little better for venting.
