head, back and calf pain

[angie631]

i wonder if anyone can help, because my doctor is about as much use as a chocolate fire guard...i am a 51yr old female about a year ago , i started getting a pain in the back of my head , my upper back and my calfs , it never goes away , i have had an mri on my head , nothing was found, i go to bed every night hurting , i wake up with a bad head every day , as i get up the pain lessens but it never goes, my blood pressure is fine , last week i was diagnosed with mastitus and was prescribed antibotics , these have made the pain 100 times worse , i can hardly walk now and the
back of my head feels like it is being crushed, my doctors answer is just take pain relievers , but they hardly touch the pain, but i am not being listene to , i live in england so it is nhs dr,s...

[angie631]

thank you for your answers , i always believed the pain was coming from my upper back/neck , but hey the docs are not interested, and no , i cannot take anti inflammatories , because they dont mix with my diabetes pills

[mkh9]

What comes to mind is a neck or upper back injury causing the pain in the head and neck and it may be pinching on  a nerve that is causing calf pain. An MRI of the upper back/neck might be in order. I know my back pain radiates down the back of my leg and calf. It is just a thought. I'm not sure why antibiotics will make your pain worse. I hope you can at least get something for pain in the interim. Do antiinflammatories work on you?

[sleiva]

Sounds like a neck problem. I suffered for years until they found I had some bad disc's in my neck had surgery in 1986 still doing good sometimes if I lift to heavy or lift wrong it gets stiff but not the pain I had before the surgery...