I injured myself at work moving some furniture about 2 months ago. I have been diagnosed with a bulging disc in my lower back, which has been causing me plenty of problems but isn't actually my main complaint since the injury. I have had sever pain in my upper back, between my shoulder blades, that occurs whenever I sit or stand for more than an hour.

At about a half an hour it starts to build. I start to get nauseous, light-headed and my back starts to ache in general. At about the hour mark the pain has built up between my shoulder blades to be fairly severe, I start having horrible hot flashes and anything after that the pain and symptoms become so intense that I can't focus on anything but dealing with the pain until I can lay down. It's been keeping me from being able to work, as well as really being able to do pretty much any normal activity in my life.

I've now seen a specialist, who said that the pain between my shoulder blades was "common" and nearly impossible to diagnose... that we would just have to keep working on it with physical therapy to get rid of it. As I'm doing more exercises working those muscles my pain and injuries are starting to feel like they did in the begining, including my neck pain returning (was awful, where I couldn't move it for weeks... but MRI was clean except for a minimal disc bulge).

I don't feel like in these 2 months it's really improved at all and I'm having a hard time accepting that there's nothing more to look into or diagnose, that it's just there and I have to deal with it. I want my life back... I want to be able to sit up and watch a movie, go to the grocery store, clean my house, visit friends and family. If anyone has any ideas I would reallllly appreciate the help!