Moving through pain

The more I regain feeling in my neck/shoulders, the more I wish I wasn't regaining feeling in my neck/shoulders. wow. ow. apparently the yoga is really helping stretch and loosen them, as is acupuncture (went for my first session on Friday, go again this Sat), but the pain and soreness is UNREAL. I know it's helping because I am waking up with more and more feeling (usually I wake up without feeling in both arms, and it takes a few seconds/minutes to get pins and needles and get them to move, and a few more for them to feel "normal"). So I know I need to work through this and I do believe that eventually I will have normal working loose, functioning shoulders! but ****, in the interim, OUCH!!!!!!

It's cumulative of lots and lots of issues over the years that I've ignored repeatedly, coupled with a few incidents such as getting run over by a horse and pinned under a metal gate, yanked by a stallion resulting in whiplash, fractured lower vert when dumped by my one horse this summer, and overall I've carried my stress in my shoulders and neck for years. I just decided I should probably start doing something about it since I can stand in the shower with the cold water off completely and not notice if the water is on my back (nerve endings shut down much??). But man waking those nerve endings back up....sheesh!

waking up without feeling was getting worse and worse taking longer to get circulation going. Massage and chiro weren't even helping - a deep tissue massage from an amazing masseuse friend wasn't even leaving me sore and in a day or two I was right back to where I was before, locked up and no feeling.

I am glad yoga and acupuncture are helping, and I definitely have feeling, but really hoping the light at the end of the tunnel is sooner rather than later!

Anyone else been through anything like this? What did you guys do to help????? how long did it take? I know it will take me a while, because i'm really messed up, just looking for kindred stories here!