Question
I am 27 and i am female, white. I have been diagnosed with migraines and high blood pressure. For the last year I have not been feeling myself. I ahve been to the doctors and argued with him. He will not listen to me. I awent through eight years of abuse, where I was repeatedly hit in the head, mainly the back. I have been knocked out, I now get headaches, to the point where my innopran does not touch the pain. Nothing does, always the same spot in the back that radiates across the top of myhead. I hear ringing in the ears, daily, dizzy, I have a hard time at times keeping anything down after I eat. Some days I am good some days I am not. I feel tired, but can not sleep. My tongue has gone numb several times, and my lips, I have explained to my doctor that my arms go numb, they tinggle. The pain is severe enough to drop me to my knees and even if I try to rest it hurts worse when I lay on the back side of my head. I have also noticed at times my right eye delaying to open sometimes for five to ten second ones after my left. thats a relatively new symptom and I have noticed my eye twitching. I can not go a day with out dealing with the pain. My head feels odd in one spot, tingles at times. My Doctor said I needed to see a psychologist. The pain is so severe that my neck stiffens through out the day and I have to deal with that pain. Four years ago I had what I tried explained as seizures. My entire body shook and I knew what was going on, but I could not do anything. They said I ws having muscle spasms. I am afraid becasue I do not know what is wrong, but I know my balance is off, I have become forgetful, weak.  

Answer
Dear Tonya,

The doctors who said you have muscle spasms are correct.  If your other doctor doesn't listen to you, fire him/her and find someone who does.

The symptoms you describe are all consistent with neck muscle tension.  The only course of action I know of to solve the problem is to retrain your control of those muscles.  See the article on whiplash injuries at somatics.com/page4.htm.

Find a somatic education practitioner and get sessions.  I would be confident of a successful outcome, if you were my client.  Visit somatics.com and click Practitioners on the blue navigation bar.

If no practitioner exists near you, you have three options:

1:  come to me for sessions
2:  bring me to you for sessions
3:  work with self-training somatic exercises as are found in certain home-health programs available at somatics.com.  If you choose this option, I will advise you.

Options 1 and 2 will bring rapid relief; option 3 will bring more gradual relief.  

with regard,
Lawrence Gold