Has anyone else experienced muscular neck pain...

[medicmommy]

Hi all! I was wondering...I've had continuous muscular neck pains  since becoming hypothyroid...(I initially had thyroiditis and was hyperthyroid before it "flipped")...I thought at first the Synthroid may be responsible, but I think the pain was there beforehand to a lesser degree...Any one else experience this? ~MM

[sissy53]

I had my thyroid completly removed in February and did great, then I started having terrible neck pain, swelling, and could barely turn my neck. Went to the doctor was told it was stress, he put me on ativan and that did not help. Finally went for a xray it showed nothing, now I hurt in my neck and down the middle of my back, It does not happen as often as it was, but i still have problems. I have no clue what is causing this

[kdevall]

ok my endo says my neck pain has nothing to do with the thyroid haha its my right side lymp nodes hurt neck  painfull travels in my arm neck head and eye pain now it is traveling down my spine .   i just wnt to a new doctor , waiting  to see what he can do i was very active and now im bearly getting threw the day. my shoulders are weak yoga poses hurt my back and neck i feel like im choking. does this go away or is this my life from here on out??? where do we find help??? im begging my new doctor to find the answer. i want my life back

[mags59]

I also have horrible neck and shoulder pain, and I'm hyperthyroid!  Sometimes I'm in so much pain I can't sleep.  Unfortunately I have no medical insurance so I can't get it checked out to see if it's actually to do with my neck!

I hope you feel better.

Maggie

[Me967]

Hi.  Yes.  I get MASSIVE spasms in my back (usually) on the left side in my shoulder blade area.  This pain can shift to the middle or right hand side also.  The spasms effect mainly my shoulder/spine area at bra level and shoot into my neck and down into my elbow.  This happens ~ every 3 months like clockwork and will last up to 1 month.  

I used to think it was pulled muscles or old fractured rib issues and my doctor always done heart scans.  LOL  What a tangled mess.  After reading this I think maybe it is a thyroid issue or with me maybe low calcium/ D and iron levels being low.  In which I believe all comes back to thyroid.  I have only been Dx. with HypoT for ~2 months.  I have had these pains though for over 4 years.   Don't know if this helps.  ????

Take care.  Amy

[mmmy2cool]

YES, I have had horrible stiff shoulder and neck pain.  This all started about a year before I was diagnosed as hypothyroid.  I thought it was my jazzercise doing it.  But it was so bad that I could not sit up from a lying down position without moaning in pain.  My shoulder was hard as a rock and my whole trapezius muscles was in spasms.  This also happens more around my period.

[medicmommy]

It's difficult for me to guess sometimes as I'm going through chemo as well, and it makes your muscles and joints ache as well...But the neck stuff seemed to come on when I went hypothyroid...interesting...                                                ~MM

[dakota_girl]

Mine I can't look to the right.My neck stays stiff almost everyday.You know its funny that is when my doctor started testing me (i never put the 2 together).I blamed it on my bed!!!

[Nese222]

I thought I was off.  O boy, I too have problems with my left side.  Not only does it sometimes hurt but it get numb and tingles.... I have been poked to run tests to rule out lymes, lupus, etc.... and need to get a brain and spine MRI to rule out MS.  Hopefully, they will be ruled out and not be the cause of my problems.... ;o(

[stella5349]

I don't know if you asking this in general or to the poster - but for me - YES! Legs feet toes. arms and sometime lower back near kidneys - which I know now that it was my adrenals in the back

All is gone unless I overdue myself. Then - like yesterday- I was pretty sore from working and the humid air in the midewest really brought on some soreness. Again I slept with the magnets and no pain - but very sleepy as I woke due to sleeping so hard again.

[TXMomOfFaith]

did the pain extend to other parts of your body?

[ChitChatNine]

I've been ok but so have my levels!

C~

[stella5349]

Oh I had it huge!! Never in my life did I have such a pain in my neck. I think I - for me - figured out what it was.

First I was still way hypothyroid so my thyroidtitis was horrible. Alos I couldn't even turn my head to the right - my left side killed me. My lymph nodes became swollen and at times I looked like a chipmunk.

I believe a combination of things helped me.

1- My meds were increased.
2- I began acupuncture and really felt a bid difference.
3- I started magnetic therapy- ( talk about desperate) BUT it really does work. In fact from the time I started that I wore the magnetics 15 minutes and the pain stopped immediately. After a night wearing them - (and I slept hard!) I woke with no inflammation.
4- I also took magnesium citrate at night too.

[mommy2two2008]

medicmommy - neck (what I thought was a crick) started all my trouble.  Wasn't long and the swelling started.  I have not gotten rid of the swelling or the pain (mine is more discomfort like sleeping wrong or stiffness) in the 4 months this has gone on.  My ENT prescribed Xanax for the carotidynia (if that is what I had) along with medrol (6 days, 21 pills) and Naproxen (anti inflamatory) and it helped, but not completely.  My thyroid started swelling more.  Anyway, the doc said that xanax (.25 mg) was prescribed because it relaxes the neck muscles.  I did not take it like I was prescribed.  He wanted me taking it 3 times a day and I just could not do it so I take it at night, 30 minutes before bed and I sleep well.  When I get up in the a.m., my thyroid is swollen, but my neck is not so stiff.  Hope that helps!  ~Kim

[TXMomOfFaith]

I have started have lot of muscular pain this past year or so. It is mostly the left side of my body but sometimes on the right too. It feels like strained or cramped  muscles mostly in my back, shoulder, arm and neck area. In general there is an achy feeling all over but I tend to have  more dull shooting pains and such on just the left side. My doc said that my thyroid levels showed a basically non functioning thyroid. I also have a thyroid nodule on my left lobe so I don't know if that has anything to with it or not. I was beginning to think I had fibromyalgia but the more research I have done has shown that thyroid problems such as hypo, mimic alot of fibro symptoms.  I am getting kinda concerned because I have some inflamation of something in my armpit. When I feel around in the same spot under both arms, the tendon or lymph node or whatever it is, feels larger on the left side. I don't know if it is related or not. My first thought was breast cancer but it is more in the upper ribs under my armpit area, not really in my breast.  I have heard that hypo can cause all sorts of muscular and joints aches and pains that mimic alot of other problems. I am praying that when I get my nodule removed and the docs start me on med to get my thyroid levels normal and stabalized, that all these aches and pains will go away.