Pain in the neck

I've recntly been waking up every now and again with stiffness on the right side of my neck and shoulder - quite painful but normally dulls down after a few hours and some painkillers - It doesn't seemt o0 correspond to any particular training session, so am I sleeping funny or is this something other people have had from running.

I normally wake up with a pain in the neck on my right side too. It normally goes away when she goes to work though... ho ho ho...

Only joking - I love her to bits really.

Sorry Godzilla - I'm sure you didn't need a response like that.

laughter is a good tonic though - not ideally for neck strains, but hell the painkillers are kicking in...

I have twice woken up with my neck frozen on one side. The first time it lasted for ca. two days and I was so frustarted I lay on the floor and tried to straighten it by hand, but failed. I then realised that I was stuck on the floor as the neck hurt too much for me to stand up. In the end I had to shuffle on my back to my desk and climb up a table leg. Eventually it wore off.
Second time was the day I was going on a scout night hike (some time ago all of this) - the frozen neck caused all sorts of comments. This time the problem was solved when I tripped over a fence in the dark and landed head first in some nettles.


So, my advice is the following: whne you have a stiff neck, walk into a low-lying fence, preferably close to some nettles.

Tim, are you making this up? More importantly, "frustarted" should be added to the euphemisms for being drunk thread.

Would a wasp in the car have the same effect? - I'm allergic to wasp stings and my new car seems to have a resident wasp that usually appears just as i'm going down slip roads onto motorways.

No Glenn, it was true. Oddly, has not happened since my 2nd year at University - not sure why it happened.