Chininum Sulphuricum - Back And Neck symptoms - T.F. Allen

BACK AND NECK

Neck

During the chill the dorsal vertebrae were more sensitive to pressure than the cervical or lumbar vertebrae,

Pressure upon the first dorsal vertebrae, and also, though in a less degree, upon the second, was painful; this is not noticed in the cervical, in the other dorsal, nor in the lumbar vertebrae, in the afternoon (seventh day),

Neck.

The neck began to swell, at 4 P.M., so that respiration was impeded thereby and the voice became hoarse (twenty-second day),

Swelling perceptible externally along the right sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, which is not painful, even to pressure (twentieth day),

Pain in the neck, especially on moving it and on swallowing (nineteenth day),

Pains in both sides of the neck, sensitive to pressure, afterwards extending into the larynx, then disappearing towards evening (eighteenth day),

Slight crampy feeling in left sterno-mastoid muscle; then in left levator anguli scapulae (apparently), in the early morning (twenty-sixth day),

On suddenly turning head to right, sprained feeling in upper right sterno-mastoid muscle, lasted a good while, with sticking aching in right ear (this one Sunday afternoon in street-car), (forty-first days),

Sensitiveness of the last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae to pressure (twentieth day),

Back

Pains in the back (twentieth day),

Dorsal.

Rheumatic feelings in left scapular muscles, upper and inner, after sitting in a draft, in the afternoon (twenty-seventh day),

Rheumatic feelings several times at inner border of left scapula (twenty-second day),

Midnight, writing, rheumatic ache at inner left scapular border; better when the arm is supported (twenty-second day),

Twinges in lower half of right scapula; immediately after, in right lower jaw, then in upper, in malar region; these sensations succeed each other rapidly, some frequently recurring, in the afternoon (twenty-fifth day),

In cool, wind, with false position, acromial rheumatism, right side (twenty-ninth day),

The dorsal vertebrae are painful to pressure with the fingers or on leaning against any hard substance,

Pain in the first and second dorsal vertebrae, on pressure (twenty-fourth day),

Third dorsal vertebrae very painful to touch, with oppression of the chest; it was not noticed on pressing on the other vertebrae (twenty-second day),

Pricking to left of the irritable mid-dorsal spine, in the forenoon (twenty-eighth day),

Carrying medicine-case in left hand, pricking in left side of middle dorsal vertebra (which is an habitually irritable part of the spine); have had similar prickling frequently during the proving, when straining this point in sitting bent up, etc., afternoon (twenty-sixth day),

Lumbar.

Dull left lumbar uneasiness (forty-fourth day),

Lumbar pains, when sitting bent up, in a street-car (twenty-ninth day),

Lumbar pain recurs as provocations recur, left side, in the evening (twenty-eighth day),

After raw oysters, condimented, dull lumbar pain when walking, in the afternoon (thirty-first day),

Whilst out, during the day, repeated renewal of dull lumbar pain, left side, also subcutaneous sticking, noticed while walking, on right side; same, but running up, later, left side; when straightening myself on a seat (twenty-eighth day),

After dinner, at 4 P.M., sitting in street-car, a little bent forward, dull pain in left lumbar region, say about lower end of kidney (twenty-fifth day),

Whilst going about, dull pain in left lumbar region; later, in the right side; then, while sitting, in the left again, afternoon (twenty-seventh day),

Dull pain, transient, in left lower lumbar region, while writing; not very rare, in the evening (twelfth day),

During exertion, pleurosthotonic lumbar cramp, left side (twenty-ninth day),

Sitting, dull aching in middle of left costo-pelvic (lumbar) muscular region, in the afternoon (fourteenth day),

Constant pain in the small of the back (twentieth day),

Dull pain in region of left kidney, whilst bent ot the other side, in the afternoon (twenty-fifth day),

Bending over my table, dull pain in region of left kidney,

Region of left kidney is quite persistently the seat of dull pain, with intolerance of positions, etc., which cause compression (twenty-seventh day),

Crampy ache in left renal region, evening (twenty-fifth day),

Sacral.

Not having defecated, felt as if a firm mass pressed from within against sacrum, hips, and lower lumbar portions of back (relieved by stool) in the forenoon (nineteenth day),