[SIZE="3"]Sometimes the stiff painful neck symptom is so bad I must get up out of bed and just stand and look up, or down - whatever to try to make it let up...

Yes, it gets really bad, bad enough that I wish someone would inject my neck with something soothing.

BOTOX - the two times I've had botox, and especially the first time, my neuro injected it from the sides of my neck, to shoulder blade areas and a bit lower, and then forearm. I think it really did relieve a lot of the pain in my neck and back areas. (Pain on top of the shoulder and along my arm became more pronounced, as did the pain in my buttocks and calves, as if when you calm down one pain, then you notice the others more...) But still, I believe it helped me, done bilaterally at the same time, for about one full month (by the time it sets in to work, and before it starts to wear off.)[/SIZE]