Pain in the left arm , in the scapula , and in the shoulders and in the muscles

[samer_2020]

Hello ,

iam student of medicine , right now iam in the second year , i have 20.5 years old .

around 15 of april 2010 , i have pain in my left arm ( all the arm ) included weakness in the hand , also pain in back like in the region of the scapula , also some time pain in the region of clavicula , and also in the region of the pectorals major muscle ,  and also some time i feel like pain in my heart i don't if i feel right or not .

any way , i used in the region of the pain volutarin cream , but without any benefits , so i decided to go the doctor ,

and this the analysis that i have made :

1) ECG - the result was fine , without any abnormal disorded
2) blood anaylsis for cholesterol , triglycerides , HDL and LDL - also all the result was fine , i mean that all the level was like in the middle ( not min and not max ) .

i went to the doctor again and he told maybe it's just small problem with the muscle , so he gave me some Tablets , for relaxing of the muscles, and another tablets of inflammation , and another like parachetamol .
and she told me to take the tablets for around 10 days , in the period the level of the pain decreased ,
but after this period the pain return back again to it's initial state , some how more pain in my hand and also in the same place that i mentioned above .

so , please doctors help me ,what you can say , what's you forecast diagnostic , and also if there some suggestion for tablets that can help me .

regards regards , and waiting for respond

Samer

[samer_2020]

thank you so much for the great answer , and i guess that your are right , because iam all the time sitting in the desk and study , maybe this , you know this is the fortune of student in medicine ..

Regards , And Great Thanks again

[Sarajmt]

Hi Samer:  I'm not a doctor but your pain sounds familiar to me.  Have you had any tests run on your cervical neck area?  That may shed some light on your problem.  I don't know this, just a pain patient's suggestion.

About the Voltaren gel. It's very good for muscle pain and I use it on my hands (bone spurs).  However, the literature on it indicates it's effectiveness against spinal pain is not proven.  My son was given it for his knee.  And for me, it hasn't done much for my neck pain.

Anyway, just a thought.  You'd definitely need a physician to diagnose the cause of your pain.

[namnam46]

There are FREE forums over there also. If you go over to the Dr.s forum and click on "Chronic Pain" and it will bring up a screen that asks for your CR. Card #er BUT is you look further down the page it lists FREE forums and one of them is Pain Management and that is the one that you should click on and then they can help you and it won't cost anything. Just repost what you posted here but be sure you add the information about the meds that you have taken that helped because that will give them an idea of the type of pain relief that you received.

Looking forward to your updates on here.

Best of luck to you...Sherry

[namnam46]

Samer,  

Like I said before this is a patients forum, but you are WELCOME to stay here also and MAYBE someone here has had something similar to you and would have an idea what is going on with you. It just wouldn't be a Doctors opinion. We would live to have you stay here also.

God Bless you also....Sherry

[samer_2020]

Thank you so much , god bless you , now i will check out the forum .

i hope that every thing will be ok , but all the time like iam afraid and like this , because all the time i think about that , and even my family ( that they far away from me ) don't understand .

ooh but i suppose to pay there !!!

any way god bless you .. Thanks

[namnam46]

Welcome Samer,

I'm so very sorry that you are experiencing so much pain.

I think that you might be in the wrong forum. This is NOT a Doctor's forum. this is the Chronic Pain Patients  Forum.

If you will go back up to the forums tab at the top of the page and click on it, you  will notice that the forums on the RIGHT SIDE of the page are the DOCTOR FORUMS.

If you will choose one from that list then you will have the Doctor's try to help you.
It would help when you post on there if you would tell them which meds and the doses and frequency in which you are to take your meds.

This forum is for support from Chronic Pain Patients to try to help each other with their different experiences that they have gone through. But most importantly, it is to give each other the moral support that we need when experiencing the pain that we do daily.

You are more than welcome to join and post on here also.

Good luck and I hope that you can find some answers quickly....Sherry

[samer_2020]

sorry i forgot to say that iam smoker also for around 2 year and half .

Regards ..