I don't know how to describe these symptoms but I'll try my best. Okay, for the last week I've had a weird back sensation, upper between my shoulder blades, and radiating from my left back ribs. Sometimes I get little sharp pains in one particular post just under the shoulder blade part that sticks out, and sometimes I get other little pinches under my left arms and in my left elbow. It's not as bad when sitting down, though I can feel like it s going to 'pop', its a feeling like something is going to 'pop' out of place or something. When I stand, or go for a walk, I start getting a little nervous because it feels like the left back ribs are popping in and out of place, and my spine does feel funny, which is probably why my tummy get tight and tight.
I went to my doctor yesterday, she did a couple of arm exercises for me to move around, took my blood pressure, and listened to my heart and back with the stethoscopes, and she said my chest was perfectly clear, blood pressure a little high but I get that a lot when going to doctors as I suffer with health anxiety anyway.
I've also been getting an off-balance feeling, like I'm on a boat. That is the only way I can describe it, the only thing that is helping ease it is holding my nose and popping my ears.
She said I was ridiculously healthy, and wasn't going to reassure me anymore, and told my mum to do the same, that this is all anxiety and I should start taking the beta-blockers to help me (non addictive ones).
I don't know whether it is my poster from bad sitting and hunching over looking at a computer all the time, or not sitting properly, sometimes when I press a little into my back shoulder and ribs on the left, it feels sore, or tender, or like your running your finger over something rubbery and gives you that funny sensation.
Anyway, I'm getting really upset about this and its distressing me. I'm 30 year old female, Hypothyroid, and have suffered with a bit of acid reflux these past few month, as I've been severely stressed and tense, overwhelmed with a lot of things. I know my chest is clear and everything but it doesn't stop me worrying what this could be. I was started to think about MS, or an Enlarged spleen, ulcer, something loose or dislodged, other things I don't know. My doctor did mention something about Fibromyalgia, not sure if she meant the stress can bring it on or could develop it, I don't remember.
It also feels like my back is crunching sometimes when I walk. So now I'm feeling scared to walk too much because of these symptoms and sensations, as it makes me feel funny, and off balance, and then I get scared, so everything gets tighter and harder.
What is it? I am so confused and distraught by this?