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    Shoulder blade pain

    For the past week, I've been having pretty severe pain (about an 8 on a 1 to 10 scale and enough to take my breath away) in my right shoulder blade. It hurts mainly if I try to move my arm. It got so bad yesterday that I made an emergency appointment with the NP at my doctor's office. She did an x-ray, but didn't see anything that could be causing the pain, so she said it was muscle spasms and gave me a pain patch to put on the area (which is really hard to do because I live alone, and I lack the flexibility to be able to reach that part of my back!) She also gave me a prescription for Mobic (which I haven't picked up yet.) I'm also taking baclofen, but it hasn't helped much.

    Has anyone ever heard of having muscle spasms in your shoulder blades? You'd think I would have recognized it as a spasm, since I have so many of them. Could this be part of the "hug"? I am also having pain in my lower ribs on the left side, which I have had off and on for the past year or so.
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    Again one of my WORST pain was midback. Every appt with my chiropractor I would write MID BACK PAIN which sometimes would wrap around my whole rib cage. Now sometimes its only on one side..but all of it I am convinced is MS related.

    BUT I have noticed it has FINALLY gone since being on Rx Diclofenac for my lumbar spinal stenosis. I cannot function without this med. I had one vertebrae that has slipped over another pinching the spinal chord giving me sciatic pain in BOTH legs and if it slips anymore I will lose control over bowel and bladder.

    So..since being on Diclofenac (give to me by ORthopedic doc) has saved my leg pain AND my MS huggy pain. I asked the Ortho about his knowledge of MS HUG..and he said..its not a clinical name but its recognized and treated.
    Thats all I wanted..something to help with this kind of pain/spasms=still my worst symptom.

    Before Diclofenac, I was using Methocarbamol and 3 ibroprofin 200 mg OTC along with wrapping my rib cage with a lumbar velcro wrap..THAT wrap held my spasming rib cage/mid back in place so I could work, move and BREATHE!!!

    Hope that helps..

    Jan
    I believe in miracles~!
    2004 Benign MS 2008 NOT MS
    Finally DX: RR MS 02.24.10

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      P.S. what has your experience been with prednisone?
      I have had it when I had flairs and it really helped to settle things down..just wondering..Would your doc offer that? Oral or IV?

      Jan
      I believe in miracles~!
      2004 Benign MS 2008 NOT MS
      Finally DX: RR MS 02.24.10

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