There are hundredths of muscles all over your body, when muscles are tight they will squeeze nerves, veins, move joints out of place and so on.
When people start complaining of pain, sounds, numbness they go to the doctor and the assumption is often NEUROLOGICAL! (so you go through MRI's, Scans and so on) and they can't find anything! And then the tendency is to claim it's all in your head and label it idiopathic!
But for some reason patients and doctors overlook muscles SO MUCH!
Take my example. I developed neck pain and headaches. After they started to happen every few days in between, I went to the doctor who checked me for nerve compression but claimed I was normal, he then referred me to a neurologist who also checked me for nerve compressions and then I had to get an MRI which showed NOTHING! The neurologist answer, well these issues happen because of idiopathic reasons (idiopathic means, they don't know why!) and that is it.... take pills and pills and pills!!!
People on the internet forums will also diagnose you with strange rare conditions with just reading a 300 words message on a board! Forums also ALWAYS have a resident expert who has a lot of book knowledge who will assure you that you indeed HAVE that rare disease because of the symptoms you describe!
I was in a very dark place by then!
The pain then spread to the face and I started to get tingling. Google of course diagnosed me with HORRENDOUS CONDITIONS that only happen to very few people! So I became pretty much suicidal!!
One day at a friend's house he stood behind me and started massaging my shoulder as we spoke about irrelevant stuff and he paused for a moment and told me. (wow you have so much tension on your left shoulder, it's hard like a rock!) and yes... my left shoulder felt tight but who cares, my tingling on the face and tinnitus meant something neurological OMG, so I ignored the shoulder tightness!!
I went home that night and started to stretch my shoulder and then started massaging it and found that my neck on that same side was EXTREMELY TIGHT, so tight I would press on it and give me the headache I often felt. I thought I had discovered something and went to the doctor and ask him, only to get the response of.... nah! Muscle tension on the neck has nothing to do with face pain and headaches!
Then I found that on the days when my neck was more relaxed, my face pain was more relaxed.... and neck tightness always brought tingling and pain on the face. (a few doctors claimed in my face there is no connection)
I googled muscles on the neck and found that the neck will cause pain if you don't watch your posture (NO DOCTOR TOLD ME THIS), I slouched ALL DAY ON THE COMPUTER! I found that about 70% of the pain I felt was exactly the pain muscles feel when tight! I started to stretch these muscles and found them terribly sore. I also stopped slouching and decided to leave all those forums filled with distress and horror stories and stopped going to hospitals to see doctors!!! That alone calmed my anxiety! And once anxiety was out of the picture a lot of the weird things I felt on that general area dissipated!
I realized my issues was MUSCULAR, even my tinnitus.... but NO DAMN DOCTOR TOLD ME THIS.... muscles were never even mentioned!!! (this makes me angry because you have people who train for years and ignore such a vital part of our bodies (muscles) when looking at a patient with strange symptoms that don't make neurological sense)
I am also mad with myself for being stupid enough, for allowing myself to get filled with anxiety and panic, mostly by equally panicked people over the internet diagnosing me with rare conditions and by now paying attention to what my body is saying!!!
I need to forgive myself, but I learned a lesson!!!
I just want to vent but thanks for listening!
When people start complaining of pain, sounds, numbness they go to the doctor and the assumption is often NEUROLOGICAL! (so you go through MRI's, Scans and so on) and they can't find anything! And then the tendency is to claim it's all in your head and label it idiopathic!
But for some reason patients and doctors overlook muscles SO MUCH!
Take my example. I developed neck pain and headaches. After they started to happen every few days in between, I went to the doctor who checked me for nerve compression but claimed I was normal, he then referred me to a neurologist who also checked me for nerve compressions and then I had to get an MRI which showed NOTHING! The neurologist answer, well these issues happen because of idiopathic reasons (idiopathic means, they don't know why!) and that is it.... take pills and pills and pills!!!
People on the internet forums will also diagnose you with strange rare conditions with just reading a 300 words message on a board! Forums also ALWAYS have a resident expert who has a lot of book knowledge who will assure you that you indeed HAVE that rare disease because of the symptoms you describe!
I was in a very dark place by then!
The pain then spread to the face and I started to get tingling. Google of course diagnosed me with HORRENDOUS CONDITIONS that only happen to very few people! So I became pretty much suicidal!!
One day at a friend's house he stood behind me and started massaging my shoulder as we spoke about irrelevant stuff and he paused for a moment and told me. (wow you have so much tension on your left shoulder, it's hard like a rock!) and yes... my left shoulder felt tight but who cares, my tingling on the face and tinnitus meant something neurological OMG, so I ignored the shoulder tightness!!
I went home that night and started to stretch my shoulder and then started massaging it and found that my neck on that same side was EXTREMELY TIGHT, so tight I would press on it and give me the headache I often felt. I thought I had discovered something and went to the doctor and ask him, only to get the response of.... nah! Muscle tension on the neck has nothing to do with face pain and headaches!
Then I found that on the days when my neck was more relaxed, my face pain was more relaxed.... and neck tightness always brought tingling and pain on the face. (a few doctors claimed in my face there is no connection)
I googled muscles on the neck and found that the neck will cause pain if you don't watch your posture (NO DOCTOR TOLD ME THIS), I slouched ALL DAY ON THE COMPUTER! I found that about 70% of the pain I felt was exactly the pain muscles feel when tight! I started to stretch these muscles and found them terribly sore. I also stopped slouching and decided to leave all those forums filled with distress and horror stories and stopped going to hospitals to see doctors!!! That alone calmed my anxiety! And once anxiety was out of the picture a lot of the weird things I felt on that general area dissipated!
I realized my issues was MUSCULAR, even my tinnitus.... but NO DAMN DOCTOR TOLD ME THIS.... muscles were never even mentioned!!! (this makes me angry because you have people who train for years and ignore such a vital part of our bodies (muscles) when looking at a patient with strange symptoms that don't make neurological sense)
I am also mad with myself for being stupid enough, for allowing myself to get filled with anxiety and panic, mostly by equally panicked people over the internet diagnosing me with rare conditions and by now paying attention to what my body is saying!!!
I need to forgive myself, but I learned a lesson!!!
I just want to vent but thanks for listening!
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