armpit/underarm pain

Ziabis

Hello and welcome to HealingWell.  This is Kitt.  I agree you need to return to your physician or perhaps it is time to seek out a new PCP, one who will listen to you.

May I also suggest that you practice being more assertive.

Assertiveness means being able to make overtures to other people, to stand up for oneself in a nonaggressive way, to speak up when others make demands, and to make suggestions or requests to others in a group or to individuals.

For some people, assertiveness requires overcoming psychological traits such as extreme passivity, sensitivity to criticism, anxiety, insecurity and low self-esteem.

Whenever a suggestion of yours  is met with failure, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and generate alternative responses. So ask that physician for what you need.  Do not give up on yourself and suffer in pain. Be your own best advocate.

I wish you peace,

Kitt

I've read through several of these threads about underarm/pit pain, some of which are now locked, and I thought I'd tell my experience with the same problem. First of all, I do also sometimes suffer from panic attacks, which I self-diagnose as a form of panic disorder. I have, however, for the most part been able to control them by breathing very deeply and/or laughing out loud (sounds nutty) and making myself think very positive thoughts. I would never have thought of underarm pain or even breast pain as some as described as being a part of the same syndrome, however, I guess anxiety of any kind can effect your muscles. I have read that generally almost any vague pain can be attributed to muscles anyway. But what I really wanted to say is that I, too, had intermittent pain under my right arm, never the left, and I truly believe mine was because of sleeping on my left side (to relieve my acid reflex). I have found I can relieve the pain almost entirely by putting a small, very soft, (almost flat) pillow under my right armpit while I sleep. If I do this every night, I do not suffer any pain. Of course, pains of any kinds should be checked out. I've gone to my family physician and my gynecologist, who both said they cannot feel anything there. Also, I had the mammogram tech make sure she squeezed the tissue under my arm for the x-ray picture, and it returned normal. So I just think my issue is with sleeping positions. Also, I went through early menopause, so my problem cannot be cyclical as others have mentioned, and I only use natural and organic deodorant sprays, so that's not it either. Maybe this will help some others with their symptoms. I hope so.

dexter92

Hello and welcome to HealingWell.  I would like to see you make an appointment with your Doctor and just go find out what is going on that is causing your pain.  Knowing the cause is much better then assuming the worse case scenario. 

The upper back and shoulder area are comprised of many joints and muscles. You only need one or two of these to become out of balance and pain will occur. I am not a Dr. so please do seek professional advice and I think your anxiety will decrease with knowledge.

Kindly,

Kitt

I have had this as well, and had my first needle biopsy at 18. Two years later I found lump in grion, breast, underarm. Freaked right out. Went to Dr, and it turned out all three were fatty deposits, and with oral meds, were treated.

It is normal to think the worst, but hearing such an easy outcome was such a reliefe, it was well worth the Dr visit.

Good luck to you all

Hi I am a new member and I know a lot of posts are old now but I too am suffering from under arm pain. It came on suddenly after no physical trauma. It hurts all the time and also hurts my shouder blade. The pain is under my right arm it has been there for over a week and is making me extremely anxious. I suffer from depression and panic attacks and also have agorophobia anxieties. I am so scared of going to my doctor because I feel I have got cancer and no matter what people say nothing seems to heklp. If anyone out there has had similar symptoms to mine could you please give me some advice I would be so grateful this is ruining my life on top of everything else

Hi all

I suffer from this same underarm pain since my college days. Sometimes it's in my left armpit and sometimes it's in my right one with a pea size lump that aches whenever I move up my arms. This is quite irritating and I, as others, feared first that it might be something serious. But I have noticed one thing that this lump with pain occurs sometimes before my periods. I have also read that the lumps leading to cancer are not painful. But since this is appearing so frequently and for so long, I think, I should visit my doc now. I am very scared to visit her as I have read all sorts of terryifying stories in this forum and elsewhere. I have some little pain in my breats too when this lump occurs. I will try to fix an appointment tomorrow or asap. Till then let's hope for the best.

Good Morning bgroeneveld and Ruth,

Welcome to HealingWell.  I am looking forward to getting to know both of you better and want to invite you to feel comfortable starting a thead of your own. Giving  all the members a chance to meet you in a thread of your own  would be awesome.

Ruth,  I am glad to know you are going to see a physician  as you can see many things  can cause this pain and you also have other areas your concerned about.

bgroveneveld,  Thank you for the information and for sharing.  Stick with us.

Kindly,

Kitt

 

Merry Christmas to you too, bgroeneveld.  Thanks for the reminder - good for all of us.

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I found this while searching for underarm pain and one thing that has not been mentioned is cystic breasts. I have very cystic breasts that are sometimes VERY painful and did not realize until recently that my new underarm pain in one arm was related to this.

I also have health anxietya and I totallly understand the fear. Neurotin takes time to work. For me, it tooks three weeks. But, I've had muscle twitches and serious nerve pain. The last week has been very good because I started going back to accpuncture, a week now with that and the pain is going away...pain that lasted quite severely for three months. I believe in that. Try accpuncture, getting rid of pain is where that art really comes through. I was horrific pain that not even the Neurotin touched, only Xanax took it away. Four visits with her and I'm gettin better each day, she figured five or six visits total and I'd be back go normal. I didn't go for all those months because I just assumed it was some medical problem she couldnt solve. I'm pretty shocked this is working. It's not working because I want it to, it's actually working, I fully expected it not to. Now, I still have troubles, probably from dics, and I get serious arm pain that runs through the armput down the arm, but on a scale of of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, she's taken it from a 20 to a 2. :)

one more thing, if you go, don't expect it work the second you get up, i find that it takes a few visits to really see the improvement. i take a hot epsom salt bath that night and I used these two herbs the doc gives me, I can tell you what they are. in fact, i might just post them for others to see, especailly in the chronic pain forum because they work so well. i'm a total skeptic, which coupled with my health anxiety makes me a difficult patient to impress. let me know if you go.