My back went out

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[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

How's your neck and arm? Are your triceps and thumb, index, and middle fingers numb or tingly on the same side?

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I'm not having a heart attack, just a muscle spasm, no worrying symptoms, but I appreciate the concern.

[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Not where I was going. I had a herniated disk in my neck a while back and the biggest and first symptom was pain and spasms in my shoulder blade. It progressed to a dead triceps muscle and those mildly numb three fingers.

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Oh, well shit, that's what I get for assuming. Heart attack was the teledoc's first concern and it makes sense. I didn't think about a herniated disc at all since it wasn't that close to the spine.