SCM muscle ? Help please!

Ears, nose and throat
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Hi all,

To cut a very long story short I have been suffering from dizzyness/spaced out / brain fog feeling and a general feeling of being unwell for about 10 months.

initially I was diagnosed with labyrinthitus and after around 10 days initially bed ridden I improved slowly to increase activity but never fully returned to feeling well.

the whole time I have had what feels like a small lump in the back of my neck and when the symptoms first started I had a bad headache to the back of my head for around a week. the day before I started symptoms i also banged my head on the ceiling of a car when we travelled over a bump to quickly.

I think the issue may be connected to the SCM cervical spine or both, my neck makes loud click/cracks when I tilt to the side like a joint popping. I have a dull pain in the collarbone region on the same side. I can feel some instability in my neck around c5/c6 which feels like a loose piece of bone or something ( I can press on it and it clicks) this is in addition the the hard lump I can feel higher up just the the right of my spine.

one major thing I have noticed is that when I have a shower and warm the neck area and then rub downwards firmly in the neck region it creates a loud crack/popping sound in my collarbone/sterner area. (My girlfriend could hear this stood in the bathroom while the shower is running) it's as if the heat affects it somehow?

one other thing is I have pain in my left arm (opposite side) around the inner elbow, this pain is worse when I press downwards on my palm I try to lift something as I f it is nerve related??

i have had an MRI and I am due to have an ultrasound of the neck next week but I am very worried it's something serious.

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I'm glad you are seeking medical help. In my humble non doctor opinion it seems like you may have a nerve caught between some cracked or dislocated bone. Sounds curable. Don't lose hope for a solution. Please let us know the results of your ultrasound. Will keep you in my prayers.

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You may want to go to a chiropractor. Also look up Barre Lieou Syndrome.

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Hi Monkey,

I would see chiro.  

Best,

lunda

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I was booked into see a chiro but cancellled when I got my MRI scan through.

looking at barre liou it certainly seems to have most of my symptoms.

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Prolotherapy it seems is how people fix barre lieou

if that is what u have

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Does anyone else have any theories on what my systems could be pointing towards?

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I have been looking into the SCM and I am fairly convinced that this muscle is in spasm - here is my theory - when I heat under shower in rub in a downwards motion and there is a click in my sternum/collarbone area this is the muscle releasing and when I realise the pressure there is another click/sound which is the muscle going back into spasm.

does this sound likely ? Also could 10 months of this muscle in spasm have cause some cervical instability which is the other movement I can feel in spine lower down ??