I had surgery in 2014.

Yes I agree,mThere is definitely a catalyst that starts it off for all of us I fee, as it co se on so quick, it can,t be anything else!

Yes i understand what you saying, i went to chiro practa just before christmas and now i have crunching in my kneck!! i also can not raise my right arm above my should without pain. I to have to sleep upright on pillows. i also get strange clicking noise and dizzy when laying on my right side!!

Hi Anne. May be a stupid question but have you every thought of going to physio or chiropractor to treat this. It may be a good idea especialy if you think it may have caused this in the first place. If they disrupted something maybe they can correct it. I have heard that a chriopractor han releive headaches and dizziness. There is also people that feel better after having specialist procedure on the Atlas at the top of the spine just below the head. It han come out of place and effect the supply to the brain and cause migraines and also dizziness.

excuse the typo's I am typing with mouse and on screen keyboeard as I cant sit up to type with keyboard lol 

my neck crunches so loudly to me sometimes, i think it has broken.  I have problems raising my right arm, i have a trapped nerve in my neck.  I believe it is all related to my neck, spine, central nervous system.  It was, in my mind, more than a co-incidence that a few days after physio to my neck/back all this kicked off.

Yes Jason,  i have thought, but am too nervous they might end up making the matter a whole lot worse.  I once went to an osteopath re my back.  Had one treatment and it really helped, went back for second treatment that put me back to where i was before the first treatment.  I keep hoping that time/nature will rectify whatever might have been dislodged in the physio as i do believe the body does try, as far as possible within reason, to rectify itself.

You may be right Anne. It may be worth going back. I am not being negative but in my case I feel I have nothing to lose and on a day like this I feel they could not make me any worse. If I feel upto it I may go see a chriopractor next week. I have emailed a few and I will phone a few next week to see if they specialise and have experience with similar conditions. I believe the body and mind are very powerful and have the ability to fix themselves but after a year I am losing hope in this and I have not been suffering as long as many here.

I also wonder if when i had this operation what they actually did with me whilst asleep! possible man handling Lol.I had no problem before operation.

Carol, sorry to hear this has come on following surgery/anaethesia.  18 years ago i was assaulted, head injury,  which led to permanent tinnitus and partial deafness. I was told this was due to neuro sensory damage.  When i went to bed one night i was fine and woke during the night with the room turning with me when i rolled over to the left.  ENT said this was probably as a result of the head injury all those years ago and it had probably been there for some time but i hadn't noticed it until it got this bad.   Perhaps during your operation there was some neuro sensory damage caused by the anaesthesia which hopefully will resolve.  I don't know, of course, but i am just wondering if it affected your neurologically.  I don't know what you had done operation wise, would it cause them handle you roughly?  When the physio did the back crunches on me she knocked the stuffing out of me and winded me.  I don't see how such rough handling can be called physio, more like all in wrestlng, that's why i won't go back.  I would like to go and see a chiropractor perhaps and discuss it all properly before i ever put myself in a position where i don't know what they are going to do.  If the physio had said to me i am now going to crunch your spine with such force that it is going to knock the wind out of you i would have declined the offer.

I used to,go to a osteopath years ago and he NEVER cracked or. Run boned bines.  It was all Manipur,ation, really good.m If I were you Jason I would research it, wish I could remember the method,s name, but maybe if you,put something in like Ostepathy without. Cracking bones and see what comes up.?

Hi Anne. I had a toe fusion on my right foot, i had to have a spinal block plus a general anaesthesia, some time ago i had a DVT and Pulmonry Embollisiom so this caused a bit if concern, not 100% remember why i had to have both anaesthesia. My feelings are this has come from the spinal block, but also think i may have been man handled being moved from operating table, who knows what goes on whilst ones out for the count!! all i know is i went in perfectly ok, then week after operation i became very poorly with all this dizzy stuff and raving headaches. now wish i had never had the operation. i went to chiro practa 6 weeks ago but not sure it has made any difference, but i only went twice, so not sure on that one. I have to say our hospital here in Colchester has not got good reputation at the moment!

Carol i sent you a link below that is being moderated because it is a link I suppose but it was about vestibular exercises and otologist which may help.  If you google vestibular exercises there are quite a few things out there.  It is all too much of a coincidence really but whatever the cause hopefully it can be resolved and if not adapted to.  We are very finely tuned and wonderfully made so any damage to any system, especially  balance is going to affect every aspect of our lives.  I hope you improve soon.  I tend to go up and down but lately have been a bit all over the place with a long standing cold symptoms i can't shake off so it affects my ears obviously as all blocked up, then whenever i fly that affects me too, mind you some days just getting up affects me, so it all a bit of guess. 

Thanks Anne, Link didnt come through, but i will google it. Yes trying my best to adapt. Hope you soon feeling much better. Its that time of year for colds etc. Roll on summer and we should all feel so much better. Once again thank you for your help and kind words. X

the links come up now, hope it helps.