Sore muscles through most of my upper body, lying down and resting not helping.

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Dear Medhelp.

I’m currently experiencing some very distressing soreness in the muscles surrounding my stomach, but mostly the sensation of a sore/sour feeling is located in my midsection. I also notice some soreness in the back of my neck, lower back and the front of my waist on occasion. When I lye down it does little to calm this ache, and it’s gotten to the point at times where it’s interfering with my appetite and I don’t feel like eating. It’s not that I feel nauseous but the area around my stomach feels so horrible I don’t feel like eating anything.

Sometimes when not being sore the areas feel very warm or even hot to the point where I’m sweating. I’m very afraid and unsure of what to do, I thought it might be because of strenuous activity, because I spent last weekend on my feet for over five hours walking each day, and lifting many heavy boxes a few days prior to that. I also like to walk an hour everyday, but doing that has never bothered my muscles to this extent before. Normally when I get such muscle discomfort lying down will calm it, and that just isn’t the case this time and I’m really frightened. I want to go see the doctor but I won’t be able to at least until Monday or Tuesday, and I don’t know if I can make it that long. Please help as I’m really upset about all this, I’ve never had muscle pains that lasted so long or made me so uncomfortable and it’s scary. This has been going on since early Wednesday morning when  my stomach muscles were so sore they woke me up and I felt rather sick.