I've been battling effects from my 2 mva's in 2000. It goes away and comes back, reminding me that I still have an injury. Like my neck. I had the nerves burned in my neck 3x's-one year apart from 2002-2004. The 3rd one was a charm and the pain stopped entirely until about 3 days ago, woke up with neck and shoulder pain.
At first, I thought I had slept on it wrong, but 3 days later, it's back (pain mgt doc told me the nerves grow back but I was hoping in my case, I was cured). I've had a neck ache that goes into my shoulders past 3 days 24-7 and followed by a really bad headache by end of the day.
One thing, Solerin, I remember my neuro doc telling me is that it's good to have xrays or an mri right after your injury, but most likely they will come up negative. He said it's best to have it repeated in 6 months because most injuries of the neck don't show up til months later. In other words, whiplash is not like a break or a fracture which shows up immediately. It takes time for arthritis to develop, bulges to happen, etc.
So, if you had an mri over a year ago (I think that's what you said) or even 6 months ago, it wouldn't hurt to have it repeated so your doc can compare where you were 6 mths ago to what shows up now.
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