Help guys confusing symptoms

Hey Vickie,

I would like to tell you that what was/is happening to your daughter happened to me a couple of months ago. It started off in the thoracic (T2-3) and the pain seem to be centralized right along the spinal vertebrae but upon pressing, it was a little to the right. The area itself was about the size of a silver dollar, very sore and tender, tingling from that area to other points of the back and scapula. At one point it was very distressing to sit on something upright because it just hurt, and seem to feel like almost a stabbing pain along with a nerve type pain.

This went on for about a week, I was taking Aleve, using the heating pad w/moisture and a topical analgesic - nothing helped! The pain area was getting bigger and bigger! Coincidentally, I was scheduled to get massage with my daughter and I went. When I was asked if I had any focal area I told her I was having issues/pain and then told her my story.

Long story short.................... it was a massive deep muscle knot that actually was compressing some nerves. It was a very painful maneuver for her to work it out. The weird thing was I could feel the ball of muscle as she tried to work it out.

I don't know if this is what's wrong, but girl - when I read your post I was like "I had/felt that way exactly"!!

So after the massage, I took my muscle relaxer religiously for a week (I have it for PRN use), continued with heat, Aleve and my hubby worked on it every day. It took a good week to feel relief and the area to calm down.

I hope that this helped...................don't panic as I did! I got to reading on the net and found all kinds of nasty things that coincided with my symptoms - bad idea!

I hope she gets to feeling better real soon.

Big Hugs from Texas,

Pam

Thank you both! This thing just has me stumped and worried of course. I guess I have seen so many young folks here with spinal issues that I let my imagination run away with me. I'm going to take her to ER today if she's no better.

You said she's more of a book person than an athlete, perhaps her posture should be looked at. I have a chronic muscle "knot" from a whiplash injury. Massage and muscle relaxants are the only help for me. Posture is a definite issue for me. Gardening chores, cleaning up after the dogs, anytime I am bent over at the waist, pulling my head so that I am looking at the ground, is a definite trigger position. Being aware of what positions bring it on or make it worse is key. Hope she gets relief soon!

Keep us posted on how she is doing.

Thanks to you all and I am about to show you how valuable the information is here. Went to the ER or rather fast trac for peds since her Dr could not see her until next week and her medical card only left chiropractic as the other option without referrals and NO WAY.

Just because it was between her shoulder blades they did a chest xray and ekg(remember preemie) to rule out a missed heart defect,all clear,spine xray all clear and DX:muscular involved trauma? Well okay that's what you guys said!!

TX: heat,massage,rest,Aleve,1/2 -1 fexeril at bedtime. F/U with primary if no better in 10 days or symptoms worsen.

While she was telling me that area was numb she was more explicit in numb being tingly like when your hands asleep to triage,oh we all know what thats indicative of and Dr confirmed that the muscle knots likely got some small nerve in a bind and the tingling is making her think its itchy. It's a strange sensation we all agree.

I also was standing there while she stood up to get in the w/c and lifted her leg up to put her tennis shoes on,you know that bend at the knee holding your foot up about thigh level that I'm fairly sure none of us has done in eons kinda movement? And she winced greatly when she did the right foot but not left and I asked if that hurt her back and she said oh yea!!

The Dr asked if she had fallen or hurt herself in some way and she says oh no I never fall off my board on my back I always jump out and forward onto my arm,great news I can see how that action could greatly ripple down your shoulder blades. He laughed and said 90% of diagnosing kids is getting all the information they don't tell parents.

Thanks all for the on target info and I sometimes wonder how I ever got through raising the other 4 with my sanity intact.

I hope she gets better soon. I know as a Mom what a relief it is to just know what is wrong.

That's terrific Vickie! Now you can lay your mind at rest. I know how we sometimes take our symptoms and lend it to the net, but when it's about our kids it gets even scarier - it's that motherly, maternal, ever-ending, over emotional, under our wings, solemnness that we get when something is very wrong with our babies!! Take it from this mother hen, been there and still do it when their all grown up!!!

She will be feeling better soon!

Hugs from Texas,

Pam