Diagnosis
Don't worry and just know it will get better. When I first felt the symptoms of a herniated disk I had no idea what was wrong. Google searches only turned up the scariest scenarios. I was in such pain that I literally did not sleep more than a few hours a night. This pain even forced me to take the entire month of December off from work. After many visits to the doctor and an MRI it was finally confirmed that I indeed had a herniated disc and it was significantly blocking my left foramen on the c7. The lack of a solution from the doctors frustrated me but I have since learned that in cases of herniated disk it is just that. All people respond differently and the one common factor is most of us will heal naturally. After 3 months i'm 100% pain free but am about at a 40% strength on my left arm. Hopefully that will come back but at least i'm not in pain.