Well, I think the steroid is starting to kick in. I've not taken any pain medication for two days now and I'm relatively pain-free for the most part. However, my head started to really hurt about 3-4 hours after I started my work day today. It was so painful by noon that I wanted to cry. At that point, it was time to attend a company-wide meeting in another room and, miraculously, the pain stopped while I was in the meeting. I couldn't figure it out. Then I realized that I'd been sitting completely upright and still for the duration of that meeting. Now, I'm back at my desk and have been here working on my computer for about an hour and the pain is coming back. I'm wondering if my chair and/or sitting position has something to do with this.... I remember reading on the National Headache Foundation web site that prolonged, consistent "crunching" of your Occipital Nerves caused by the way you're holding your body and/or contracting your neck/shoulder muscles can trigger inflammation and damage to the nerves.
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Well, I think the steroid is starting to kick in. I've not taken any pain medication for two days now and I'm relatively pain-free for the most part. However, my head started to really hurt about 3-4 hours after I started my work day today. It was so painful by noon that I wanted to cry. At that point, it was time to attend a company-wide meeting in another room and, miraculously, the pain stopped while I was in the meeting. I couldn't figure it out. Then I realized that I'd been sitting completely upright and still for the duration of that meeting. Now, I'm back at my desk and have been here working on my computer for about an hour and the pain is coming back. I'm wondering if my chair and/or sitting position has something to do with this.... I remember reading on the National Headache Foundation web site that prolonged, consistent "crunching" of your Occipital Nerves caused by the way you're holding your body and/or contracting your neck/shoulder muscles can trigger inflammation and damage to the nerves.
I think I may need to look for a new chair.....
July 28, 2009 - 1:48pmThis Comment
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