my pain is different, when my neck starts to hurt I have the nerve pain and it is very painful and will shoot all the way down to my fingers sometimes when it is going on. it can get so bad that I can not move my neck or that is another sensation I have to go through.

I have not had the cracking yet. I find that neck pain is the hardest to get rid of. my pain meds works on everything else except the neck but the gabapentin is the only thing that will give me relieve with the pain in my neck.