A Mystery! NEED HELP

[michiganmigs]

My wife, a 46/yr old white female, has had this excruciating pain in her left arm. She describes it as a shooting and burning pain. It sometimes travels to her legs and neck. She has had numerous tests with nothing to be found. She has had a nerve test, a lyme disease test, 2-MRI's on the head and neck, she saw a neurologist and he tested her for MS and anything else neurological that may have been causing this pain... found nothing. My wife has had this pain off and on for the last 3 years. Recently -- it has been coming back more frequently and with greater pain. Now the pain had gone away for the last month -- but has just came back in full force. This pain disables my wife's use of her arm. She cannot live like this anymore. Can anyone help?

[Gio77Italy]

A MRI is enough to rule out orthopaedic issues but not neurological really.
Although neurological might not be the only possible explenation, you should consider cardiac too.

Where exactly does she have pain in the legs? The inside of the legs? Does it feel like nerves or arteries implicated? Did anything unusual happen before she began to feel this pain? Has she been taking any drugs, experienced anormalies in the pulse, lungs, blood pressure?

I think she should take all cardiac tests.

[specialmom]

Gosh, I'm sorry to hear this.  Not a pinched nerve or anything?  My husband had something similar to what you described and that is what the diagnosis was after several months.  For him though, there was an activity trigger.  We have a mower and a large yard.  When he mows, it triggers the pain.  He didn't believe it until I kept a journal and showed him.  Gets him out of mowing now.  ha ha.  So, start a journal of what proceeded the pain and see if you see any patterns.  good luck