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December 9, 2008 - 9:41pm
Anonymous
Really annoying upper back pain

Hey Everybody,

For the past 6 months I have been experiencing really bad pains in my upper back, between my left shoulder blade and spine. It feels like there is almost a "bubble" where the pain persists. I have went to a chiropractor many times and still it has not helped at all. I am only 16 years old, and it's getting to a point where it's effecting me during school. I can stretch my neck and that usually temporarily relieves the pain, but then within 10 minutes it comes back.

I do not have pain that shoots down my arms what-so-ever. But the pain that I experience starts at this "bubble" between my left shoulder blade and my spine and sometimes goes all the way up to my neck. I have no idea what is wrong and I haven't injured myself in a long time so I do not think that it is an issue. Pain relievers such as tylenol, advil, and excedrin do not even touch the pain and I almost am taking them constantly every day to make the pain decrease.

Thanks for any suggestions or comments, and they are well appreciated!

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December 11, 2008 - 8:48am
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TracyLynne
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Muscle spasm or trigger point

Have you tried going to physiotherapy? It sounds like you have a major "trigger point" there'; it presents as a persistent lump, and often takes a fair bit of manual therapy to get rid of it. If it carries on, trigger point injections by a doctor can often help, too.

Out of curiosity, so you hold your phone/cell phone with your left hand? I just got myself a headset, which has decreased that pain by about 75%.

Good luck, and keep us posted. If it IS a spasm or trigger point, you may find it doesn't get better until someone works on it.

Tracy

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Any information I provide is through personal experience ONLY....I am not a medical professional, though I could write a book on the impacts of chronic pain and the treatments I've tried!

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~E.M. Forster, Novelist

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