Re: Back and shoulder pain
There is no harm in getting checked out for your own peace of mind. But I have had back/shoulder pain for years. I have an old injury that didn't heal right that causes the shoulder pain and the rest I put down to anxiety related tension. Do you find that you carry a lot of tension in these areas?
Re: Back and shoulder pain
Hi kuraimoar
sorry not to have replied earlier, I’ve not been in a very good place.
in answer to your question, yes, I do carry an awful amount of tension in my shoulders. I constantly have to tell myself to relax my shoulders, I hunch them up all of the time.
The pain has not gone away, and now my mind has been telling me I have heart disease, which has given rise to all of the symptoms.
The trigger was when I rang to get a referral to a phsyio and explained my symptoms, they immediately started asking about breathlesssness, chest pain or any heat conditions! And so I started freaking about. Added to that, I have just come back from a walking weekend, where I was doing some coastal walking. This involved quite a few steep climms, and on one of them I kept getting a twinge between my breast and my armpit. I was very breathless too, but the ascents were steep as I say.
I keep trying to talk myself down. Just under two years ago I had an ecg, and echo and a running ecg, which all came back fine apart from a benign right bundle branch block. But could heart disease progress in two years to put me at serious risk? I am in my fifties, but I do excercise, don’t smoke, rarely drink, and go to the gym. I am about 7lbs overweight though, and I have anxiety..
maybe I should pay for a new set of tests? It’s not cheap, but it’s so hard to live like this
Inanna xx
Re: Back and shoulder pain
I'm having the exact same worry at the moment. I've had had worst pain in my left shoulder blade and back of ribs for over a week. Its only made worse by certain postural positions which sounds the same as yours? I've also gone to possible cancer/spread of cancer, but i don't think it would be aggrevated by specific movements if it was sinister like that, I think it would be a constant ache or pain that doesn't go away. That's how I'm rationalising. I also have a huge amount of tension in my neck and shoulders. Don't know if it's an exasperation of that tension or whether I've pulled something and not noticed at the time? X
Re: Back and shoulder pain
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Inanna
Hi kuraimoar
sorry not to have replied earlier, I’ve not been in a very good place.
in answer to your question, yes, I do carry an awful amount of tension in my shoulders. I constantly have to tell myself to relax my shoulders, I hunch them up all of the time.
The pain has not gone away, and now my mind has been telling me I have heart disease, which has given rise to all of the symptoms.
The trigger was when I rang to get a referral to a phsyio and explained my symptoms, they immediately started asking about breathlesssness, chest pain or any heat conditions! And so I started freaking about. Added to that, I have just come back from a walking weekend, where I was doing some coastal walking. This involved quite a few steep climms, and on one of them I kept getting a twinge between my breast and my armpit. I was very breathless too, but the ascents were steep as I say.
I keep trying to talk myself down. Just under two years ago I had an ecg, and echo and a running ecg, which all came back fine apart from a benign right bundle branch block. But could heart disease progress in two years to put me at serious risk? I am in my fifties, but I do excercise, don’t smoke, rarely drink, and go to the gym. I am about 7lbs overweight though, and I have anxiety..
maybe I should pay for a new set of tests? It’s not cheap, but it’s so hard to live like this
Inanna xx
The physio's questions are part of a routine health screen prior to starting any treatment. Did she suggest going to A&E or to your GP before asking for physio? My guess is no. So did you make a physio appointment?
Have you been told that you have "heart disease" by a cardiologist?
Maybe you need to think about whether there is a actual clinical need for further heart tests and only a medical professional could tell you this, not your HA.
Re: Back and shoulder pain
I been to my gp about my shoulder hurting, he told me it was either apull muscle or inflammation, my mind as I have bad health anxiety thinks this is cancer (bone cancer, non hodgkins, leukemia, lymphoma etc as i get arm pain as well, i did see someone in the chemist and he said it was a trap nerve.
I have done the crime of reading articles about this on line that people who had shoulder pain, neck pain etc
arthritis does run in my family
Re: Back and shoulder pain
Hi
thanks for the replies.
yes, I did make an appointment for the physio and had m first session on Friday. The physio told me that she thinks the problem is on my neck. She said my posture was not goo, and I stick my chin forward, and cause strain on my neck. I cannot turn my head to the left very far without it hurting. She also said the the nerves are those which run down the arm. I have been given some excercises to see if they help, and I have another session next week.
I started to feel more positive about things until today. I was driving along the motorway and I suddenly got a horrendous pain in the middle of my chest. It came and went three times in the space of about a minute. . It was so bad it made me go “ohhhh”, even though my mum was in the car. I thought I was going to have to pull onto the hard shoulder. Anyway, made it home, and only slight feeling of pressure in chest. BUT, I also have a dull ache in my left jaw.
im so scared, I don’t know what to do. Now I am convinced I habpve something wrong with my heart, and I am about to drop down dead.
I feel so afraid, but also low that I am living like this. I feel isolated and alone. Part of me thinks I should just end things now, as this is no life, and I could be on my way out anyway..
I just feel hopeless
sorry to be so weak
Inanna xx
Re: Back and shoulder pain
And this week was the anniversary of my sisters death, so already feeling low xx