Someone close to me, a former Microsoft developer, complained about neck issues for years. Doc said it was probably posture and stress, and this person never went to a specialist.
One day, after about a decade of untreated neck pain, this person collapsed at their desk and went into a coma.
They eventually recovered, sort of, but what they describe is exactly how you feel and Mr. Glucose Depletion in TFA. Pop sound in the brain. Dizziness. Loss of speech and motor control.
The official diagnosis was stroke. The former Microsoft engineer had some kind of collapsed/pinched neck artery and they had a stroke. They are alive and well today, but completely incapable of coding for the rest of their life.
A nearly identical but more severe story as yours and the the author’s.
The neurologist I went to really recommended naprapathy and/or physiotherapy on a regular basis - he was in his 60s and had seen a lot of really weird things over the years.
It’s easy to chalk a burnout down to emotions and stress, and these might very well be the root cause. For me the above, however positive in nature, gave me physiological “blockers”, in a sense.
Had my shoulder not started to act up (bicep it turned out after a couple of months excruciating shoulder pain - a whole story on its own, fixed by sticking a needle straight in to the muscle to force relaxation) I would not have ended up at the naprapath.
A kind of burn-out - but rest and mindfulness on it’s own would not have been enough to get me back.
Someone close to me, a former Microsoft developer, complained about neck issues for years. Doc said it was probably posture and stress, and this person never went to a specialist.
One day, after about a decade of untreated neck pain, this person collapsed at their desk and went into a coma. They eventually recovered, sort of, but what they describe is exactly how you feel and Mr. Glucose Depletion in TFA. Pop sound in the brain. Dizziness. Loss of speech and motor control.
The official diagnosis was stroke. The former Microsoft engineer had some kind of collapsed/pinched neck artery and they had a stroke. They are alive and well today, but completely incapable of coding for the rest of their life.
A nearly identical but more severe story as yours and the the author’s.