I had a serious motorbike accident where I went headfirst into the roadside verge, crushing vertebrae in my neck. Then I have had 3 more MVA whiplash injuries, 2 with vehicles slamming my car from behind, one from spinning off backwards into a tree on ice. Then, obviously, the arthritis set in.

I have constant pain and stiffness in my neck, only 30% rotation right and 50% left, even moving that far is terribly painful. My left arm is weak and numb, I have pins and needles numbness permanently in my middle, ring and pinky fingers. My right arm is the painful one, most of the time there is just a painful ache in the middle of my upper arm, outside - but when I try to use it, or move my neck wrong the pain is an excruciating stabbing, boring feeling, as though the bone has a knife jammed through it.

Hope that explains well enough, suffering Cluster Headaches today.

Dave.