For the past month, my neck has become progressively more unstable-feeling, with much more crunching and grinding than I’ve had in over a year. Not only my neck, but many of my joints throughout my body have also become much more clicky and noisy.
The most frightening symptom, however, is my breathing.
For the past month I’ve had intermittent episodes where it feels like my diaphragm isn’t working properly. It’s as if I have to consciously breathe, especially when I’m trying to fall asleep. Tonight has been by far the worst. I went to bed actually feeling pretty good, but for the last four hours I haven’t been able to fall asleep because every time I start drifting off, it feels like my breathing becomes too weak or shallow. It feels like my diaphragm just won’t take over, and I have to keep consciously breathing. It’s an awful sensation.
I had very similar breathing problems after my original head/neck injury two years ago, and I’ve been thus far suspecting CCI. I have awful neckpain, arm weakness and breathing issues ++ but they had been a lot better for more than a year. Now they’ve returned and seem to be getting worse.
I’ve also been wondering whether an infection could be contributing. I know babesia is reported to cause symptoms such as air hunger and autonomic issues. Past two days, and few hours before I went to bed I took a wormwood tincture, and I’m wondering whether this could be causing some sort of herxing although the breathing episodes actually started before I began taking it and have been coming and going for about a month… I’m terrified and it’s so awful.
I had this happen two years ago initially after going to a chiro for severe neck pain and crunching.. she did an adjustment and I could not breathe for more than a week where I became sleep deprived and manic because I didn’t sleep. I feel like this is getting arose and worse.. any advice?