I have been having a lot of issues with my neck and back. My symptoms started when I was 22, 7 years ago. It started when I woke up one day and had this pressure on one side of my neck, right under the base of my skull and behind my ear. I had this constant feeling of needing to stretch or crack my neck all day. Well this feeling never went away. Eventually I got the pressure on the other side of my neck as well. I can sometimes hear cracking noise inside my head from this and a noise that almost feels like I have fluid in my neck or head. While its not painful, it is extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing because I have to constantly move my head. But it hasn't stopped, eventually I started getting pain in one of my jaws and then the other so now I feel like I have to constantly move my facial muscles. Then I started getting pressure in my back behind my shoulder blade. When this acts up I feel the need to constantly stretch my back and the feeling goes all the way down my left arm and hand. They never all bother me at the same time though. When one side of neck or my back is acting up, the other side doesn't bother my as bad. or when my back is acting up my neck doesn't bother me as much, and vice versa. I am assuming this has something to do with my nerves, but I have no idea what. I am one of those people that is terrified to go to the doctor because Im afraid of hearing bad news. My friends and family don't really know whats going on either because I don't want them to bug me all the time about going to see a doctor. I am starting to warm up to the idea about going to see a doctor because the quality of my life just *****. I have been dealing with this for a long time, and I just want to feel normal again. I would just like some type of idea of what I am dealing with before going to the doctors. Please help or give me some ideas of what it could be