What Causes Pain In The Neck, Biceps And Knees?

Posted on Mon, 23 May 2016

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Question : I have extreme pain in the base of my neck, biceps , hip, knees, lower back, which makes it hard to navigate. expecially after setting. I can hardly move, but once I get going I can do pretty well = bending over or getting thingdown trto pick something up is almost impossible. This came on after my doctor said it was a pulled groin muscle. What is wrong?
my pain is now at 10. I have never had this much trouble moving and am XXXXXXX active person. I wrk as a bridal consuktant lifting heavy dresses and going up and down stairs constantly.I can hardly do thid any more just with in the last 2 weeks.

Answered by Dr. Nishad BN (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Systemic arthritis or fibromyalgia are the posibilities.

Detailed Answer:
Hi

Thank you for asking HCM

i have gone through your query. From your description of painful points it can be due to systemic arthritis or Fibromyalgia.
Doing blood routine examination including ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation) will be helpful to get signs. In case of systemic arthritis ESR will be raised. Cholesterol and uric acid level also should be tested as a high levels of these also can give such pain syndrome. Better to test vitamin B 12 and D3 levels if possible also.
Warm showers , taking NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and physical therapy ( muscle strengthening exercises) will be helpful to get relief from this.

Let me know if anything not clear.
I am happy to help you.
Thanks.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar