Thankfully, I have not been injured in an auto accident or anything like that. I have been thrown down a flight of stairs when I was younger, and bounced around the room a bit--thanks to my first husband.
About thirteen years ago, all the stress of my life, the JW thing, etc., apparently transferred internally to my physical body, and I would get these horrific back spasms. They would hit me with no warning and the secondary injuries from passing out and falling is what was so difficult. Through the years, I continued to have these incidents, ramdomly, but none as bad as the first two. Aside from spasms, tests showed nothing wrong with my spine, etc. Since then, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.
It is strange when I think about it, but when the pain is gone, I forget about it. The first time I had the spasms in my back muscles, I was petrified it would happen again, and the memory of that pain stayed with me because I feared "it". When I asked the doctor if it would happen again, he said he didn't think so, so I totally forgot about it and relaxed. A year later, the second occured, which resulted in a badly cut mouth and a broken nose from passing out due to the overwhelming pain. Gradually, as the muscles in various parts of my body took turns "spazzing out", I grew to get a feeling of the onset and learned to stop whatever I'm doing and either sit or lay down immediately and just breathe and "feel" the pain. What I mean by "feeling the pain", is that I begin to try to describe what it feels like, and how it flows. I have learned to manage my chronic pain. I realize it is a lifelong condition I have to live with.
But when I get a wee twinge, I immediately think "oh, no, not again", because I know how much the initial attack is going to hurt, and how it will side-line me for a couple days.
I hope you can get some relief for sure.
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