A Pain the Neck.

So I went to the clinic yesterday for my neck. My doctor says that they are muscle spasms, and that they are a result of the two different sides of my upper back pulling against one another. They do this when my body is unbalanced, or in other words, the muscles on the right side of my body are being strained more than the right, or the muscles in the upper half of my body are being strained more than the lower half. She said this happens because I live at a computer, am short, have a large chest, am stressed, and because I sleep on my stomach. Well, there's no solving the computer issue. I'm a student and that's what I have to do. There's no solving the fact that I'm vertically challenged and have a chest that's too large for my small frame. And until my husband gets home and I graduate, I can guarantee the stress will be there. I tried to sleep on my side last night--I think I woke up on my stomach. She gave me Flexeril (a muscle relaxer) to take at night, and Naproxen to take once in the morning and once at night. I took half of a Flexeril pill and I was knocked out in 5 minutes. I was still out of it until about 2pm today--not a fan of that feeling. The Naproxen makes my stomach feel pretty gross all day. I've been taking both medicines for an entire day, and I'm not sure if I feel any better. She gave me this exercise to do with a pool noodle. Any idea where I'm going to find a pool noodle when it's almost winter? Yeah, me neither. She got x-rays, but I haven't heard anything on those, so I'm guessing everything looks normal spine-wise, which is good. I'm skeptical about the muscle thing. I've been an athlete for my entire life. I know what a pulled/strained muscle feels like--this is something a little more than that. I injured the muscle that she said was being strained (supraspinatus) a few years ago, but it was on the opposite side from the one that hurts now, so I know what that feels like. I'm always mistrusting of Army Clinic doctors. They rush you in and out and find a quick explanation that may not actually be an explanation, just to preserve time. So we'll see where this goes. Let's just hope these medicines will start working.