Does anyone suffer from this god awful thing? It all started quite suddenly for me last Saturday night when I couldn't sleep due to pain in my shoulder blade. Over the next few days it worsened and the pain started going into my arm and started getting numbness in my hand. Someone drove into the back of me at a roundabout a few days earlier but I hadn't really thought much of it at the time as there was no damage to be seen to the car. I went to see a physio on Thursday and she thinks it is a trapped nerve between C5 and C6. She has given me exercises to do twice daily. I phoned the GP on Friday and they have prescribed amitriptyline 10mg for 1 week increasing to 20mg. I am currently alternating ibuprofen and either paracetamol or cocodamol but sometimes the pain is soo bad like all the muscles go into spasm. I have been putting hot water bottles on regularly too which helps. Has anyone else dealt with this? Any advice? How the heck do you sleep with this? Every position is agony!