Hi,

Welcome to KickAS, I think you have a good plan.

The No/Low Starch Diet is a good thing to try, for some if not many it helps. Even if it means less medication that's a long term benifit.

Go easy on the exercises, stretching swimming, I know what upper neck issues are like and how easy it can be to disproprotionately upset them.

Have you tried swimming? I started using a mask and snorkel seems to help the neck.

As for other (muscle) pain, a neck problem can radiate pain all over, we get scaring this can trap soft tissue nerves blood vessels etc. difficult to find and more difficult to live with.

There's a common secondary conditon that some call Fibromyligia, or (I'm told more correctly) chronic pain syndrome. No one really understands this (except my son's pain clinic apparently) it's due to some sort of malfunction in the nervous system brought on by injury disease etc) where nerve signals are incorrectly processed as pain........

I wish you well, and I hope you hang around and fill us in on how you are going.

David