Thank you I will check on this. Doc has referred her to a PT that specializes in neck pain. She is also set to see Pain management with a doc that also specializes in neck and back pain in children. So fingers crossed that one of these will help.

I'd just like to add that please have your PT check each and every one of here neck & posterior shoulder muscles in (relatively) isolated positions. They have protocols for neck muscles, shoulder muscles, rotator cuff etc.

Heres a hypothesis, a long time back when sleeping in a certain awkward position, a muscle is "switched off" - the brain perceives it as being under threat of damage, or its contraction causing damage. Others (which are not designed for the purpose) compensate. The pain goes and comes as long as aggravating activities are kept to a minimum.

Injured folks automatically - without realizing - tend to do that. Over time, the repeated trauma on the overactive muscles or their impingement on additional nerves etc - flares up the pain & the brain, nervous system say enough.

Reason I state all this is because this is the case for many & since you are in the US, trust me, good PTs are many.

You may have to travel to find them but the effort will be worth it, also some answers can be real simple. Reason I am hoping that the answer is straightforward, is because fingers crossed, your daughters "complex results" have come back ok. It could well be something this "dumb" which is causing so much discomfort. Good thing is she can recover fast!

Last couple of days for dd has been really bad. After our trip to her pediatrician last Tuesday I could tell she was really trying. Doc basically told us that there is nothing physically wrong with her and that this is a result from anxiety and depression. She said dd12 was not to lay in bed and that she had to get up and get moving.
All last week and beginning of this week she has gotten herself up everyday by 7 AM. Taking a nice morning walk with her dog, taken a shower, eaten breakfast and completed school work. While I was glad to see her putting in so much effort I could tell her pain level was no different but instead she was pushing through it. Everyday by noon she is exhausted but still she tries to keep going. Wednesday morning this all stopped. She woke up in so much pain she could not even left her head off pillow. She says her entire body feels like it is hurting but most pain in neck, head, wrists and ankles. She cried while I washed her hair for her because it hurt for me to even touch her hair.
I am worried that she is giving up hope. She is starting to think noone will figure out why she is in so much pain. Sometimes I worry about that too.

We have appointment with new doctor at the Pain and Spine Medicine Monday and he specializes in children with chronic pain so I am hoping he will figure out a way to help her. At this time she is on no medication. The basic, Ibuprofen, Tylenol, Flexeril, does nothing for the pain so she doesn't even bother trying. Pediatrician had nothing to prescribe as she thinks none of this is real. So we continue to chug along trying not to lose our minds and comfort DD as best we can. Just wanted to chronicle our journey.