Fizz!
This morning I awoke to this odd symptom I frequently have, but no doctor has able to pin-point, or has even ever heard of before. With all the issues I have medically I have always wondered if I'm just not describing it correctly, but when I go to think about it I always come to the same two ways of describing it.
For years now, and probably since my arthritis issues very first started showing up (High school) I've had these weird sensations in the back of my neck. I had them as a kid too, but they have been way more as a teen and adult. It feels like someone running their finger from my shoulders up the back of my neck as lightly as possible, so I can barely feel it, and it always accompanies, simultaneously, a fizzy sound that travels upwards also. Normally this happens while at rest, though I've had this happen with activities that tend to cause the neck to get stiff. Typical times aside this seems to pop up and disappear completely randomly any time it wants.
The sensation lasts anywhere from a couple seconds to about 20 seconds. It's fairly quiet so normally no one hears it except me. Kevin has heard it though, he said it sounded like a slow burp in a closed throat, or something like that. What I hear is more like soda bubbles or the fizz of an electrical power line, and it definitely feels like the sensation and sound are the same thing.
Reading this thread where others describe it I see that many have back or neck issues for some time. As have I. I've always perceived it as part of my spondylorathropy, even if no medical professional helping me with that has ever heard of it. Many of the other people mentioned a connection with when they are hungry. At the moment for me that's true, but I don't know that it has always followed that way. I DO know it seems to follow more so with my flair ups and muscle fatigue, and more so when I get overheated or stressed. So there may be something to a stomach/nutritional needs theory but it hasn't ever seemed like that strong of a connection to me.
I keep hoping I'll find a tie to it with my searches for information on Ankylosing Spondylitis, but so far this is the closest I get.
This morning it woke me up after 5 hours of sleep, also am dealing with a very stiff body (all over morning stiffness) and a headache that is threatening to go to a migraine that I've been dealing with for almost a week now.
If anyone else has ANY information about this, has had this, or any doctor who can point me in the right direction, PLEASE COMMENT!
It's not that it's any kind of painful, or anything that makes me worry, it's just creepy, it always feels foreign to me and kind of startles me even though I've experienced it countless times before.
Well, now I'm sure you all think I'm crazy, but at least I can point to others on-line who mention the same thing as me!
For years now, and probably since my arthritis issues very first started showing up (High school) I've had these weird sensations in the back of my neck. I had them as a kid too, but they have been way more as a teen and adult. It feels like someone running their finger from my shoulders up the back of my neck as lightly as possible, so I can barely feel it, and it always accompanies, simultaneously, a fizzy sound that travels upwards also. Normally this happens while at rest, though I've had this happen with activities that tend to cause the neck to get stiff. Typical times aside this seems to pop up and disappear completely randomly any time it wants.
The sensation lasts anywhere from a couple seconds to about 20 seconds. It's fairly quiet so normally no one hears it except me. Kevin has heard it though, he said it sounded like a slow burp in a closed throat, or something like that. What I hear is more like soda bubbles or the fizz of an electrical power line, and it definitely feels like the sensation and sound are the same thing.
Reading this thread where others describe it I see that many have back or neck issues for some time. As have I. I've always perceived it as part of my spondylorathropy, even if no medical professional helping me with that has ever heard of it. Many of the other people mentioned a connection with when they are hungry. At the moment for me that's true, but I don't know that it has always followed that way. I DO know it seems to follow more so with my flair ups and muscle fatigue, and more so when I get overheated or stressed. So there may be something to a stomach/nutritional needs theory but it hasn't ever seemed like that strong of a connection to me.
I keep hoping I'll find a tie to it with my searches for information on Ankylosing Spondylitis, but so far this is the closest I get.
This morning it woke me up after 5 hours of sleep, also am dealing with a very stiff body (all over morning stiffness) and a headache that is threatening to go to a migraine that I've been dealing with for almost a week now.
If anyone else has ANY information about this, has had this, or any doctor who can point me in the right direction, PLEASE COMMENT!
It's not that it's any kind of painful, or anything that makes me worry, it's just creepy, it always feels foreign to me and kind of startles me even though I've experienced it countless times before.
Well, now I'm sure you all think I'm crazy, but at least I can point to others on-line who mention the same thing as me!
Labels: Ankylosing spondylitis, Arthritis, health, medical, Rheumatoid Arthritis
posted by Celestial Freak @ 9/02/2008 07:07:00 AM
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