Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Nickphuket asks

Q: Pain in base of neck, elbows, back of hands and base of calf mucscles, wet eyes, lack of sleep, tire

My symtoms are:

Stiffness of lower neck - not stabbing pain

Pain in mainly right forearm - muscles - stabbing - very tender funny bone

Pain to left forearm - and muscles - not stabbing - not as severe as the right

Pain to back of right hand sometimes severe - stabbing

Pain to back of left hand, not severe

Left and right lower calf muscles, aching....tried to run and both siezed up after a few hundred metres

Headaches

Wet eyes

Fatigue

Lack of Sleep (for years)

I am 50, ex heavy smoker (50/day til last month - now given up)

up to 7 months ago - heavy drinker - last 7 months drink mainly water and only occassional alcohol

Professional recreational diver - have not dived now for 7 weeks because I thought pain might have been related to decompresson sickness.....dive doctor ruled that out.

172cm, 91kgs.... mid overwight ...not dropped off this dive season

I stay pretty fit and swim every day

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Karen Lee Richards

4/23/08 4:44am

Of course, we can't diagnose or treat people online. Only a licensed physician who can examine you in person and run necessary tests can give you a diagnosis. If your personal doctor has been unable to help you with your symptoms, it may be time to consider seeing a specialist. From the symptoms you listed, visiting a rheumatologist might be a good place to start. Rheumatoligists deal with all kinds of musculoskeletal disorders and most rheumatologists are excellent diagnosticians.

You say you haven't slept well for years. In that case, it would probably be a good idea for you to talk to your doctor about having a sleep study done. Our bodies are designed to repair and restore themselves as we sleep. If we don't get adequate amounts of the good, deep restorative sleep we need, we can develop all sorts of physical problems and illnesses.

I wish you the best as you pursue the cause of your symptoms.

Karen

heshoots67

4/22/08 8:20pm

I SUFFER MOST OF THESE.

d18405

5/31/08 1:02am

sounds like it might be TMJ. obviously, see a doctor for a real diagnosis

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