On January 2nd, I noticed a weird pain in my left arm.  I thought perhaps I’d overworked a muscle lifting patients at work the night before and decided to baby it.  Over the next 10 days or so the discomfort came and went and changed somewhat in quality.  I tried ibuprofen, icing my elbow (where I thought the pain was coming from at one point), and elevation.  But by two week mark the numbness and tingling was growing in intensity and keeping me awake at night.  I decided to call the doctor. 

Office visit – she suspected pinched nerve in my neck.
X-rays – to rule out compression fracture.
Gabapentin – to relieve the pain
Prescription for physical therapy.

It took a good week to get an appointment, but three weeks later I was completely healed!  Therapy was HARD.  And WEIRD – look at the photos below!  And I was in tears the week between visits two and three as my muscles were in revolt against me an my twice-a-day-hour-long stretches.  But the PT was beyond excellent.  And I can now turn my head further than I had been able to since Katriel was born.  (Her difficult delivery left me with reduced range of motion in my neck.  Long story!)