Standing, arms at my sides, if I attempt to raise my arm straight out to my side at a 90 degree angle or higher, I experience sharp, piercing pain as if it were right in the joint.

I think this is a chronic problem exacerbated by my sleeping position, with my arms above my head nestling my pillow, while on my stomach.

Rotator cuff? Bursitis? Arthritis? IT HURTS! What do you know about such symptoms? How have you dealt with it?

I am 18 years old and have no history of chronic illness or cancer in my family. Recently I have experienced dull pain in my forearms and in my joints of my hands. I have no other symptoms, but i have experienced the pain for at least two weeks on and mostly off. I am still active, i have no fatigue, and my skin looks completely normal. I think I am too young to have arthritis, so does that mean I might have leukemia or bone cancer?

Thanks.

My husband is a carpenter and fell off a roof when he was younger, breaking his back, cracking his skull and shattering the bones in his face, requiring constructive surgery.

He now suffers from severe headaches amd arthritis, which he believes is related to this accident, and his symptoms have progressively worsened over the years. Arthritis also runs in his family. The arthritis in his back even showed up in an x-ray that was done on him when he was in a car accident a few years ago.

He applied for disability, they sent him to a doctor, and all she did, other the regular checkup routine, was make him bend in odd positions, touch his toes, walk in a straight line with one foot in front of the other, etc. She had supposedly reviewed his medical records from the accident also.

A few weeks after that he got a letter saying he had been denied. What should be our next step? Would it be worth it to consult a lawyer?

Any input or advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

my mom is 45 and she has been recieving pain in her right leg. she has been tested for arthritis, and it came back normal, she just got blood taken for lyme disease. im not sure if its lyme disease, because there are more symptoms. if you have any idea what it is, help!

Here are my most major symptoms, and I’m not sure if they are connected, but I thought I would throw them out there, and maybe someone can connect the dots…

I feel achy. There are few days when I can say nothing hurts. Keep in mind I’m only 21. Lately my biggest ones have been my neck and side (my right side, the pain comes most often when I’m driving). The side pain and near constant neck pain is a fairly new issue compared to the others.

I sometimes get very bad abdominal pain. It usually happens 30 minutes to a few hours after eating. It lasts a few hours. It doesn’t happen every time. It seems to *sometimes* be worse after fatty, cheesy, or meaty foods, but it doesn’t happen every time I eat these foods. The more time that goes by, the more frequent this is becoming. It radiates and isn’t in a constant spot, but mostly centers about middle of my stomach, to my left (if someone were looking at me, it would be their right). It is so bad that I sometimes cry over it. Passing gas doesn’t provide relief.

When I stand up from a sitting positon, about 20% of the time my head goes “fuzzy”, my vision goes black and I fall down.

I have pretty frequent diarreah. It’s not all the time, or even every day, but it’s enough that I don’t think it’s a normal amount. The color is very dark brown (sorry for that info )

I sometimes have bouts of constipation. The consted feeling goes with the abdominal pain, but then later I get diarreah… in otherwords, it feels like I really have to “go” but I can’t until a few hours later when I have lots of diarreah.

I have had two episodes where there was blood in my stool.

In an average day I have a BM nearly every time I go to the restroom, but it is rarely “together”, usually soft pellet-like (sorry again for that information!).
I flush. It happens when I’m embarassed. It happens when I’m *cough* aroused. It happens when I drink (I don’t drink anymore). It happens sometimes for no apparant reason. The flushing is is big splotches, not all over. It is mostly on my neck/jaw and chest. Sometimes I get it on my cheeks. It’s very embarassing. I’ve been told by friends that maybe it’s rosacea, but it doesn’t look quite like the pictures I’m seeing.

My hands hurt. It feels like arthritis. It happens more in cold weather. My joints in my hands hurt. Sometimes it is so bad I can’t drive. It doesn’t happen all the time, it comes and goes.

I’ve struggled with depression for years.

It doesn’t happen as much now as it used to, but I get heart flutters. It feels like a panic attack, but only physically and for no apparant reason.

I’ve struggled with chest pain that comes out of the blue for seemingly no reason. I’ve been to the ER three times thinking I was having a heart attack, but they perform tests and never find anything.

I think those are the main ones.
I’ve been to the docs but they keep telling me it’s probably IBS, which I take as their way of saying, “We don’t know, so take a pill”. The pills don’t help. I’ve had a colonoscopy that didn’t find anything.

Someone help me. Throw out a condition that I can look up and see if it sounds like me so I can ask my doctors to test for something specific!

when i sleep i usually sleep on my side, and when i am on my left side i wake up in the middle of the night with alot of pain in my hip and up in my butt cheek that feels like a throbbing or a sort of numbness., once it wakes me up i roll over and it goes away. it doesnt give me any problems during the day when im walking or sitting or anything. just when i sleep or sit in my bed.
ive read things about arthritis and it seems to have the symptoms i have.
but im not 100% sure
if you have any ideas please let me know
thankss

Is it possible for the joints, like the wrist, to start hurting if you may have breast cancer ? It is described like you have arthritis and feels sore when pressure is put on it.
Also, what are other possible symptoms of having breast cancer besides a lump forming near your breast?

I am 19, I have psoriatic arthritis and have been sexually active but not recently and clean of any std’s however i have these symptoms…
vaginal swollen and tender feeling and red and burning sensation that makes my whole body cringe. veryyy uncomfortable especially since its almost all the time. it doesnt hurt that much when i go to the bathroom but it doesnt feel good either. what can this be?! its been about 2 weeks now with all these symptoms.

About a year ago i started having red/sore joints. after a few months, a positive rheumatoid factor, and about a billion doctors, i was diagnosed with post-streptoccocal arthritis. since, the joint clicking and locking has increased, but pain decreased. I have also developed sharp chest pains, headaches, bright flashes in vision, sore eyes, violent msucle twiches, numbness in various limbs, really fast heart rate after little exercise, pulsation, extreme lethargy, fatigue, paralysis of limbs upon wakening, drooling, mood swings, psychotic periods, loss of will, lower back pain, violent shaking when muscles are under pressure, loss of appetite followed by sudden binges. ive know also got the strep throat again. also, my blood seems much darkler than usual. These symptoms are very real, and have all been observed by friends/famioly/doctors. I am not a hypochondriact, quite the opposite in fact. I have hadf more tests, and been to more doctors than is sensible, none seem to take me seriously/ say it’ll go aweay. I’ve been told it’ll go away in a couple of weeks, every month for a year. Has anyone had any experience with post strep-arthritis/ or any ideas hats going on.

Thanks

sorry for all the people who think this is about a health problem..
A while ago I was given a school assignment where we were given symptoms of an imaginary patient and we had to diagnose them with a disease. I had no kind of medical education at all except for general knowledge and grade school stuff. I was able to diagnose Pneumonia, Hepatitis C, a heart attack, Rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, and asthma all within a period of 10 minutes. Is that weird or is that just general knowledge?