I have finally found someone who has experienced the same type of symptoms that I have. I too had pneumonia in October 2007. I took two rounds of antiboditics and seemed to have recovered. In late January I started having increased t-pain. In mid-Feb the pain became crushing, like a tiger had jumped on my back between my shoulder blades, taken a bite and still had it's teeth implanted in my back. The pain radiated around my ribs under by breasts as if the skin was being drawn to the point of bursting. I had numbness radiating up my neck, head and around my face on the left side. The primary pain outlet remains the left side. The pain seemed to get worse in the evening, but it was high all day. I am on Lyrica and Percocet, but the tightness has not been relieved. Did you ever get a reliable diagnosis?
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Originally Posted by froglady
Have had t-spine muscle spasms and pain in chest...angina type pain off and on for a couple years. Yet this is the worst yet and it started January 1 with having pnuemonia and all the coughing made my right ribs very painful and they started spasing. Now it has gone competely over into my left side too. I feel like my back ribs are in a big vise and someone is trying to squeeze the life out of me. The pain is going from a 4-6 daily and have had some days that have been a 4-7! Today has been horrible and I am getting so weary from the pain. I took flexaril today and then a percoset and neither one even phased it! I know it is from having myalgia pain syndrome, yet the docs don't know it! I go to pm doc and he says he does shots only...can't get the shots until I can give him a diagnosis. Have an appointment in May with a rheumotoligst and can not even figure out how I will be able to stand this pain for that long if it doesn't stop.
Thanks, just griping about it helps somehow!  |