Pain in the Neck

First off, I want to apologize for the direction of the photos. I don't know how to change it on the blog and I don't want to fix them and the upload them again. Shawn and I went to a ward activity/enrichment activity on Friday, Feb. 27. After dinner there was square dancing and we joined in the fun. By Sat. night my neck started hurting. Monday night I had to take drugs in order to fall asleep because my neck hurt to bad. Again more drugs on Tuesday. My neck didn't hurt in the morning because I'd been sleeping and resting my neck. By afternoon my neck would start hurting again and get worse and be very painful by bedtime. By Wednesday (March 4) my neck started really hurting before lunch and so I called a chiropractor. I went in and they did this thermal scan. Here are the results of the scan. Green is mild, blue is moderate and red is severe. Oh, and black is off the charts. Here's my neck

and here's my back. On Thursday I went back to speak with the chiropractor and he said that I had a deformity in the bones of my lower back and that I would probably have back problems most of my life. My lower back has quite often had a fairly constant dull pain, but I'd just learned to live with it and now I know why. Also, he said my neck problems probably stemmed from 20 years ago and have just gotten worse and worse until now. I have a forward head tilt instead of the natural backward neck curve and that is what was causing my neck so much pain.

I now have to go to the chiropractor for a 6 month treatment starting with 3 days a week for the first month. My neck has stopped hurting since the first adjustment, but my back seems to hurt after each adjustment and in different places. On the 17th I received this lovely contraption to help put the natural curve back in my neck.