I am 26 yrs old i first went to my doctors 18months ago with pain in my neck, at first they thought it was a traped
nerve. when i later went back and told them i had not gone away but infact was getting worse. i now have pain all the way down my left side of my body. i have pins n needles in my hand sometimes goes numb my bones hurt its as if they are being pulled and twisted i am alot weaker now in my left side also that side of my face hurts aswel my musles at the back of my shoulder and my neck often spazrm.i was sent for an xray which nothing showed up they then sent me for a neck mri scan when the scan finnished the people that did the scan on me asked me what was going on i told them and they said to me they thought i should be having a brain scan by the sound of it not a neck scan.
i am so confused my doctors say they dont know what is wrong so now just say oh you have chronic pain we think. but i dont understand why when i had my MRI why they said they thought i should be having a brain scan can anybody help me with this or give me any advise? i am so stressed out with all this i know something is not right i know my know body but its as if know body wants to find out know that they have put down that it maybe chronic paini would be so greatful if someone could explain
Hi I am currently having the same symptoms. It started in my arm, pain and tingliness all the way to my fingertips. I have also experienced tingliness in my face and pain in my bones (on left side of body). I've gone to the doctor and my doctor ordered 3 MRIs, one of the brain. Unfortunately my insurance sucks and they denied all 3 MRIs. We have repealed their denial and hope I am able to get a scan soon.
Im in the States and have the same problem, found this post from a google search, my hip is the worst of my pain , they can not figure out what is going on.
I get flash headaches, blurry vision, face, neck, shoulder, every thing on my left side.
My hip and thigh feel like im being stabbed with knives.
I have gone thru xrays, blood work, mri, ct scans. All puzzle the doctors.
Hi I am having the same exact symptoms. My doctor wanted to do a brain MRI with contrast to rule out MS, but because of the dye being used I decided not to do it. They instead are doing a MRI on my back and neck hoping to find out what is affecting the left side. I also was having chronic pain on my left hip which would cause limping, they had found out it was bone spurs.
Hi there,
I have also had chronic pain for the past 6-7 years. It is from my neck all the wya down to my toes. I have tried physio, oseto, chiro, needles, meds ect. My docotor has no idea what it is and it seemed to have come out of the blue. The worst part the the most difficult part to treast are my toes which seem to splay out when i put them in shoes. I can't fit them in my normal 9 size shoes and they rub.
The only thing that ever gave me temporary relief was a lift on the opposite side foot that i wore and all my pain went away but only for 3 months and then eveyrthing returned. There seems to be some sort of imbalance that is throwing off my right side body and causing it to swell up or tense up.
Snyone else have any ideas what are the causes, whether it starts with the foot or with the hips?
thanks
david
I used to have the same problems . pain on left side and also it develop into left side weakness. heat was a big factor which made things worse . I still have the same problem is but I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis found out after when I was working I kept falling down .had a hard time coming up in the cab of the truck . I so we can I couldn't press the clutch with my left foot . then I wasn't able to eat and when I swallowed I started choking and develop pneumonia . they thought I have had a stroke . that they cleared that but the systoms not go away started having problems breathing . they call the neurologist he is the one who gave me the diagnosis and he has admitted me to the hospital for 5 days and gave me transfusions .this seemed to help a lot .I still have some pain but not as bad and weaknesses improved a lot . I hope this helps
. terry
Hi all i am new at this, i currently have the same symptoms ongoing for 10+ years now been to doctors,had scans blood tests had heart tests nothing,
i get nausia,head aches,migranes,seeing stars,massive headspins,its funny after the massive head spins i feeel so relaxed and forget who or where i am sometimes,
i have had a head surgery where my skull actually cracked and fluid build upand my head puffed up like a balloon when i was in teen stages which i dont remember.
every night when i go to bed which ever position i lay my heart will race,pounding in the left side of my head,my left side will go numb and tingly,i have told doctors about this no cause found.
for the past 6 months my head has started to hurt where i had my surgery i can feel it hurt inside then outside.
REALLY guys i am scared to go to the doctors can anyone relate to me,give me some advise PLEASE !!!!!
I am 26 years old and my problem sounds identital. It started a year ago with my neck. It was so bad I was in a neck brace but nothing was actually wrong accoring to doctors. Its only on the left side of my body. I get severe neck/shoulder pain so bad that I can barely move sometimes. As it worses it goes to my left hip as well. Its intense shooting pains. Occationally it will also be in my ankle. My muscles and joints on my left side from my neck through my fingertips and toes will be swollen and painful. I take about 8-12 Advil a day but nothign lessens the pain. It feels like I could crack it and the pain would release, but I never can. My muscles have intense feeling knots in them that are extremely abnormal. When I go to the Chiropractor occationally he can fix the pain for about a week, but then it comes back. Sometimes he actually makes it worse. Last week I went to a different chriopractor and he said that the left and right side of my brain are not communicating. He expalined that if only one side of your body is in pain its cause by either a sugar problem, which I don't have, or a brain issue. He mentioned that if you are also ADHD or get confused sometimes by becoming overwhelmed with information then it's brain related. He bascially expalined that the right side of my brain isn't communicating with the left side of my body. He did not however tell me how to fix it yet...
Hi all, I have 3 prolapsed discs that point to a right sided issue but I had the opposite until recently. They decided I had chronic pain and injections and pills are the future. Three weeks ago I hit a pot hole while out driving which sparked an immediate spasm in my neck. My wife took over driving and by the time we got home I was in such pain I couldn't move and was stuck for six hours in this position. Hindsight tells me I should have called 999 only with recent history I decided to wait it out. The following days showed up that I now have equal pain either side of my body and also I am unable to urinate properly with 3 second dribbles and around 5 minutes to empty my bladder.
Does anyone else have a urinating problem as it can I'm told be investigated and prove where the problem starts.
I am now waiting for another appointment in Liverpool for further tests
Hi all, I have 3 prolapsed discs that point to a right sided issue but I had the opposite until recently. They decided I had chronic pain and injections and pills are the future. Three weeks ago I hit a pot hole while out driving which sparked an immediate spasm in my neck. My wife took over driving and by the time we got home I was in such pain I couldn't move and was stuck for six hours in this position. Hindsight tells me I should have called 999 only with recent history I decided to wait it out. The following days showed up that I now have equal pain either side of my body and also I am unable to urinate properly with 3 second dribbles and around 5 minutes to empty my bladder.
Does anyone else have a urinating problem as it can I'm told be investigated and prove where the problem starts.
I am now waiting for another appointment in Liverpool for further tests
Hi all, I have 3 prolapsed discs that point to a right sided issue but I had the opposite until recently. They decided I had chronic pain and injections and pills are the future. Three weeks ago I hit a pot hole while out driving which sparked an immediate spasm in my neck. My wife took over driving and by the time we got home I was in such pain I couldn't move and was stuck for six hours in this position. Hindsight tells me I should have called 999 only with recent history I decided to wait it out. The following days showed up that I now have equal pain either side of my body and also I am unable to urinate properly with 3 second dribbles and around 5 minutes to empty my bladder.
Does anyone else have a urinating problem as it can I'm told be investigated and prove where the problem starts.
I am now waiting for another appointment in Liverpool for further tests
Hello,
Im glad to hear Im not the only one. I see people with the same symptoms but i don't see a response of an actual diagnosis or a good way to deal with the pain. Am i missing something? this is my first time here.
"Im glad to hear Im not the only one. I see people with the same symptoms but i don't see a response of an actual diagnosis or a good way to deal with the pain. Am i missing something? this is my first time here."
Your quite right. Typical of the confusion and uncertain diagnosis where there may be a trapped or threatened nerve. Probably most are trapped nerve in cervical spine due to different grades of cervical spondylosis, which has gone unnoticed. It's a common problem, and yet it gives rise to all sorts of speculation on causes. UNfortunately, there's a tendency to only see the local issues, rather than the cumulative effects of a single trapped or threatened nerve in the neck. Dealing with the pain may well require a different approach for each individual case, but a good starting point would be how to stop aggravating the neck , and thus ease the radiated symptoms. Have a look under Cervical Spondylosis to see if there are similarities.
I have prolapsed discs at c3-c4/c4-c5/c5-c6.
2nd the discs are slightly touching my spinal cord. I have pain all over and had a 51 day stay in hospital after 4 weeks damaging my neck in what started out as a simple fall.
Nash really helped that much I have tried everything available to. Physio , nerve blocks, bed rest, acupuncture, and a brutal for of physio. All of which has made small changes but no cure and they keep scratching their heads as to why I don't seem to improve. My latest treatment has been injections right into the facet joints which has numbed my neck but not changed the symptoms.
I think there is only one fit her step which is to remove the damaged discs but they won't even consider it, they dismiss the fact that I now have an injury at three separate points in the spine. Which in my thought process can contribute to the all over body pain that I suffer so it is a prescription of pills and get used to it.
I have been offered a course on how to personally learning how to live with the pain so I will give it a try.
Sorry that I don't have a cure to share.
"Sorry that I don't have a cure to share."
No need to apologise. There is no cure, and that takes a bit of getting used to. Even surgery, which comes with variable outcomes, is usually only a temporary remedy....when it works. When it doesn't work, and we get to hear little of this aspect, it can make things more vulnerable. For me, I prefer to look at other possible options....particularly self management techniques which might help alleviate the symptoms.,,,that's the only way I see that quality of life can be beneficially affected. The meds and the surgery are always held in reserve anyway, so why not try other approaches in the meantime. Sometimes the urgency of the distress of the symptoms makes us want to jump at offered solutions which don't quite make the grade, and that can be at the expense of a more informed approach which might offer other means of easing symptoms. Gaining some control over the symptoms, and learning how to not aggravate them and how to ease them is probably what's really important in the long run. THe first step in that process is recognising that there is no 'cure' being offered, and maybe there never will be. So, self management with least meds, and least surgery, should be prioritised at the top of any C/S wish list. I think that, when what's being offered isn't satisfactory, then we have a responsibility to ourselves to look at other self management approaches, just in case we've overlooked any other methods which might help ease symptoms. The track record from what the services provide is not impressive.
Your symptoms sound like fibromyalgia. I have fibromyalgia and those are my symptoms. I was fortunate to find a doctor who diagnosed me immediately & put me on medication. I'm not pain free, but there has been some relief.
When I read this thread, it seems like most people are showing signs of fibromyalgia. Google it & see if it matches what you are talking about. Good luck & I hope you get better soon.
Google fibromyalgia. That's what your symptoms sound like to me - and just about everyone else in this thread. I was very fortunate to find a good doctor who has been worth his weight in gold helping me with this. There is no cure, but there are medications that can provide relief.
Fibromyalgia. I sound like a stuck record on this thread, I know, but I have fibromyalgia and that's what my symptoms were like before I got treatment. I hope you get better soon.
I know that there's no cure and I am going to an assessment clinic at Liverpool's Walton Centre the week after next for the Pain Management programme.
I had an operation on my shoulder in April which was fantastic until about 3 weeks ago when I feel and cracked a couple of ribs and popped my shoulder out of joint. The fact that the operation was a success must mean that my body hasn't forgotten how to repair itself. For this reason I am still hopeful of some kind of relief from a medical /surgical intervention.