It's getting complicated. I have this neck pain for 2 and a 1/2 months now, insurance denied the neck MRI so I have to have 6 weeks of physical therapy, then they will maybe allow it, I'm on my 4-th week of PT and it's not helping at all. My rheumy run some blood tests, and even the CRP was high 20 ( 0-4.9 ) he said it's probably because I had a cold at the time of blood drawing. But today my physical therapist told me maybe it's tendonitis in my neck ??? could that cause a high CRP ? I don't know what to do now, which dr. to call , nobody connected my neck pain to tendonitis.