5 years back I had pinched nerves in my neck for 3 years. Every 3 months my neck would kink up with ungodly pain and I couldn't move my head for 3-4 days. As time went on it was more frequent. I saw and Orthopedic and Neurologist and did all the tests. Mri, x-rays, cat scans and was told surgery wasn't an option. They didn't think it was serious enough even though they new my C5-C6 was degenerating and my C6-C7 was torn with a bulge. They wanted to send me to pain management so I can get hooked on pain pills. I finally had a Disco gram done that showed it was the discs causing the issue. Finally got them to do surgery and when they were in there said it was way worse than they thought. I had 2 discs almost bone on bone. I feel better today then I ever had with the occasional lower back spasm. My point is you know your body. Try remedies but stay away from the medication unless that is your only option. Use it for temporary pain relief but get more than one doctors opinion. Keep track of the pain, like I said you know you body and Doctors always want to keep you from surgery until there is no other option. It's a last resort but it's better than pain the rest of your life.