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Muscle Spasms and muscle pain
Posted: Aug 17, 2011
About 6 -8 weeks ago I started getting muscle spasms. Day and night all different areas, feet, fingers, calves, thighs, neck, diaphragm. I started drinking more water, taking potassium, drinking gatorade, etc. Nothing seemed to help. Day by day they got worse and my strength was diminishing; all I wanted to do was sit or lay down. Slept all the time. So I finally drug myself to the doc, told him all my symptoms and that it was almost like I was lacking something in my system. He did lab work and my muscle enzymes came back slightly elevated. So he started me on muscle relaxants and I went back a week later...nothing had changed so he put me on Prednisone (which I have now finished) and he drew more blood to check the enzyme levels for change. OK that was almost 3 weeks ago, I still have not heard about the lab results (one thing I don't like about this doc, other than his not returning phone calls I love his bedside manner). So my question is, has anyone else had anything like this and if so did you get a diagnosis or what if anything corrected the problem? This really stinks....I had so many things I wanted to get done this summer and all I do is sit or lay around. I don't want to keep paying co-pays if I am not getting any results. TIA for your thoughts.
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I do this daily - but I have fibromyalgia AND myofascial pain syndrome - I have learned to deal with it.
[ In Reply To ..]It's just something I have learned to deal with on a daily basis. The fatigue, pain, and muscle spasms are a part of my life on a daily basis. I take medication to try and control symptoms. I would suggest if it keeps up that you see a rheumatologist. Good luck to you.
sounds like side effects of statin drugs. - i stopped taking them
[ In Reply To ..]and my joint and muscle pains miraculously went away! Hope this helps. If not, I wish you luck with finding the problem.
Muscle spasm/pain - merrymt
[ In Reply To ..]I was experiencing a lot of similar symtpoms last year... muscle spasms/pain/horrible fatigue. Docs couldn't figure out what was going on, so I took my husband's rec. and saw his chiropractor. Turned out my spine was so twisted and compressed and out of alignment that it was triggering my issues. I was under regular treatment for three months and now just have to go once every month or two...usually when I start to get really, really tired again, I know it's time for another adjustment.
Obviously, I don't know if this will ultimately help you or not, but it's worth a shot right?
Have you gotten any relief? - alana
[ In Reply To ..]I had lots of trigger points that were misdiagnosed. Someone I met via sciencebasedmedicine dot org linked me to the site below:
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