I have been having discomfort and pain on the right side of my neck and it comes and goes but I feel it when I swallow sometimes or when I lean to pick things up (when I move my neck). I've noticed I've had palpable lymph nodes on that side for over a year now and they seemed large so I've gotten an ultrasound done but they said they're just benign and reactive. However, a year later I still feel this pain and it seems like I have one lymph node in particular that seems pretty solid and not very moveable. It's located near/behind the SCM muscle but it's definitely deep as it's further back on the front of my neck. Any ideas on what this could be, could it be something else other than a lymph node? Here is image of location of lump:

https://preview.redd.it/0o4fg3hjkyxd1.jpg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b51a6d5f533ef12a3d2c08f51d321993d756132f

Please don't just say ask a doctor. I'm on a waiting list, and I also waited years ago and got fobbed off, has been going on 6 + years. I play guitar a lot and believe it's some kind of carpel tunnel due to amount of pain. It's really bad right now and I have to wait half a year at least just for a basic appointment.

I use tiger balm right now, it feels good, but I suspect it's just a cover up. Is there much i can do to make the pain less?

I have been having dull pain in my right knee for about a month and it keeps getting worse. It gets much worse during night or at rest and sometimes it hurts while walking. Now along with the dull pain I am getting sharp deep aching pain in my knee. The pain is under my knee, on the sides, above my knee and ontop. I've tried ibuprofen, panadol, celecoxib, and Voltaren which don't work, I also tired tried tramadol but it doesn't take the pain away completely. I had no injuries prior to this am I am moderately active. I have no swelling or redness, only change I've noticed is that right under my right knee it looks alittle fatter compared to my left knee. I've had an xray and it's come back as normal. What could this be and has anyone else experienced something similar?

Has anyone else dealt with pain in their lower leg area, specifically the peroneal tendon? I've been dealing with this pain for over a year and don't know what to do at this point.

I've been going to physio where they use ultrasound and shock wave therapy but I'm still not healing. I don't have any pain when I flex and move my foot around. The pain is very localized.

I feel like I should get a second opinion. I'm tired of dealing with this pain. I got an ultrasound done recently and thankfully it didn't show anything.

It's affecting my mood now. I'm sad that it hurts to walk and even stand sometimes. I'm not old at all and just so frustrated by this.

Hi, Jay this side, 22M. I have pain in my knees specially in my right knee when I sit on chair for doing work, or apply pressure on it, mri showed nothing...I earlier had vitamin d and b12 deficiency which got exposed by blood test after that I started taking tablets for it and the pain which in my left leg earlier went away but now it has moved to right knee my orthopaedic doctor said you might be having inflammation ( arthritis) even though my blood report showed normal range of RA factor, pls help what's happening, my right knee which is hurting right now clicks alot special when I stand up, I do cycling and exercises but it's not improving pls help me out

7 weeks ago I randomly got a cramp like feeling suddenly in lower left abdomen. Over time this has moved to flank pain in waves and worse with movement. Sometimes burning sore feeling in stomach then skin feels sore. Also skin leaving red marks from gentle pressure. Bowel movements can do from orange musus to dark small balls and on and off blood mixed in stool. Blood tests all fine, apart from very high IGA. Had colonoscopy which was clear. CT scan shown lesion in liver and ultrasound shown small kidney stone in only 1 kidney.

Any one had this or know what this could be please? Lump also found in cervix but told this wouldn't cause the symptoms I have been having.

I have herniated discs in my neck and back and that’s as far as I know from my problem of my causes. But my symptoms are that I have unstable ankles, wrists, elbows, knees, neck, shoulders, lower back. It feels like all those areas are weak and it feels like no matter how much I try to move them they don’t get any better and only get weaker or more painful. I’ve been trying to do physical therapy exercises for several months and I seem to be getting worse, my nerves feel like they’re being pinched more every day.

I take anxiety medication and meloxicam for inflammation, but it still seems like I can’t walk more than a couple minutes without my feeling like they’re about to fall off or my lower back feel like my disc is pushing on my nerve

I don’t know what to do. If anyone has any advice, please let me know ,

Thank you.

Has anyone taken gabapentin while doing physical therapy and actually felt pain free once PT was done and stopped taking the meds?

I just started taking this in hopes that it will allow me to gain strength in PT and fix the root cause of my back pain. Right now I am unable to move much without debilitating pain. I don’t want to be on this medication long term.

I am worried that I will go through weeks of medication and PT only for pain to still be there when I taper off the meds.

What has your experience been?

Headache like all over my head

Hello I am 14 years old but I have like headaches that hurt not so bad but it’s mainly my left side in a specific side like pretty near my eyebrow it feels like its tight and it hurts and like a like more to the middle left of my head (not top of head) it might feel like something is moving and it caused me discomfort. And on top of my head near the left where the like coming is it hurts like if I were to hit it. The right side it might just randomly hurt like if soemone hit me. The back left of my head also sometimes hurts maybe the most pain but it can be random. The front of my forehead to the left also like hurts soemtimes too. Note that I use to have like religious OCD maybe like 2 years ago which probably caused me a lot of stress and over thinking and my head might of hurt then. And it might of come back again a year later but maybe a lot worse and I still am a worried person even if it’s not religious accioated like I might be scared to get caught getting on my phone a lot and I’m a pretty paranoid person over all so that could cause headaches. Expect this time these headaches are maybe a whole lot worse even if I’m not even thinking. Like maybe a few months ago I got a be headaches all over my forehead but that kinda went away now if it does hurt it’s just my left side probably. PS I might heard fluid like blop blop blop and I don’t know if it came from my head or the juice and Gatorade next to me but I don’t even know if moved them.

okay this is my first time using reddit and idk where to post this? in health? here in pain? 🫠

anyways

i got this kind of painful/uncomfortable pain in between my shoulders a week ago and i couldnt sleep for hours

it happened again yesterday

and i was trying to find links to what caused it. if im eating something or idk

i was wondering if it was milk/cream ? sorry if i sound dumb af 😭 i had milk the first time and last night i had a creamy (?) tikka masala

i had the masala again today around 3pm

and im getting the pain again....

it always happens during the evening around 8pm/20:00hr

i do also take my medication then but ive been taking it for 2 years and this has never hPpened and it didnt happen the few days between when i hadnt had anything milk or cream...

this has never happened before and i dont know if maybe im over looking something

but im just here maybe looking for some guidance

sorry if this is in the wrong area again...just let me know if this isnt where to post this, where i can 😭

How does one move forward when trauma in the past always worms back, creeps in reminding you that everything you do no matter what you do or where you go - others are still in control, we are never truly free,… Wish there were low cost places that offered Tai chi classes… self defense …… in pain .. fibromyalgia, insomnia, fatigue.. . when jobs pay you less because of being a women… L

I keep getting this pain in my neck when I turn my head too fast or reach too far. What’s wrong with me? Who do I go to?

Der Wunsch zu sterben legt sich wieder in mein krankes Gehirn.

My mind is racing right now, three days grace inside my head but the rage is uncontainable.

Paragraphs of pain but expressed into nothingness, left with nothing but pure hostility and fuel; maybe my intoxication has got the best of me but why do feelings of pain persist inside of normal individuals.

Dramatic messaging, powerful pressing of keys, who decides what is right or wrong?

Pain persists, pain persists. Pain, persists. Pain is persisting. PAIN IS PERSISTING. WHY IS THE PAIN PERSISTING.

Maybe we aren't whole; maybe we are only fragments of ourselves.

PLEASE SOMEONE STOP THE PAIN FROM PERSISTING

Maybe, maybe.

Maybe we are powerful but we aren't practical.

F16 I hate this shit. Why, as an artist, it's the hands that have to suffer constant pain. I can't take it anymore. You wake up and it feels like you've been skinned. I haven't started drawing in a long time because it's painful to hold a pen in my hands. I'm so tired of this pain coming and going in waves. I can't even understand where it's coming from. It's like it's everywhere. But tensing my arms is the worst thing I can do during these periods. I'm tired of fighting it all. It took me a long time to even type this. I'm so tired, but without vent, I have no other healthy way to deal with it all. I just want to cry all the time.. You're just walking with a friend, holding hands and bam, weakness takes over your body and your friend has to help you not to fall to the ground like soggy bread. I'm not even talking about climbing stairs.. It's just that, looking at the energy fields of my peers, I feel like... a loser. Like... who needs a helpless one like me anyway.

Hey Yall- College student here and my toe hurts. Basically the pain is usually in my big toe or the two toes next to it, stemming from the area around the joint (point of articulation begween second right metatarsal and proximal phalange of the foot) in my toes. It hurts mostly when I walk. If i stand on my tippy toes or put weight on my toes while sitting down, it’s the worst. I’d rate the pain somewhere along a 4 5 or 6. It’s been hurting for about two weeks. Not really any bruising seen on the outside of my toe, and I don’t recall hitting it on anything. Lmk if yall think I should get it checked out. It’s not severe pain but i’m just worried why it hasn’t gone away or gotten better.

A girl from canada recently passed away due to being cooked alive in a walmart industrial walk in oven, how much pain do you think she was in before her passing??

I was diagnosed with a TFCC tear and wore a splint for 4 weeks. Then I did 1 week of wrist stretches that helped loosen my wrist after being so stiff. Then my doctor said I can start doing light excersizes in the gym and gave me some physical therapy exercises along with it. After VERY light lifting for a week, and physical therapy mobility excersizes, I’m feeling pain. Usually only during the excersize. I originally tore it from punching a bag, and also had weak wrists from benching. Now I can’t do anything. Is it supposed to hurt during twisting and light excersize? When can I expect it to stop? Should I stop everything?

My left upper arm started off with a twitch then my arm become painful

Been doctors told them it's sore etc it's muscular go home and come back 5 weeks later tell them it's sore help me they said it's tendoritis I said why do you guys guess ?? You think I want to be here. You think I'm happy whatever is going off isn't subsiding

I said I do not have tendoritis because you can't just get pain around your bicep and nowhere else it has to affect movement and cause stiffness etc and limit movement I don't have any off that and your telling me do I understand do I knew what you mean!!

7 years at med school to guess I'm telling him my shoulder doesn't hurt I can move it fine so why do I have bicep pain that you say is tendoritis and he said it's muscular not nerve and I said it's nerve that's why medicine didn't work

Hi guys, 22 year old female here, recently I’ve been noticing more lower back pain than usual- it’s not bad pain at all but it’s a general dull ache which goes from my lower back down to my legs and I can especially feel the pain down the side of my leg/at the knee joint. My kneecaps don’t ache but my knee joints at the side are aching constantly. I’ve had problems with this before with dislocation - x rays showed nothing causing this.

I haven’t been doing any strenuous activity- I do a moderate amount of walking and stand for nearly 8 hours a day in one place. Is this enough to make my joints start aching and what I’m really looking for is advice/exercises to help prevent the back pain or support the symptoms when they occur. I’ve just started a new job which requires me to be active and I want to minimise the pain/damage to my back as much as possible. Thank you so much!

Hi all - new here! I essentially have something that I have wanted to say for a while but haven't anywhere to say it; I'm hoping you guys on this sub might understand my point of view in a way that others I know do not.

Two years ago (May 2022) I (F,30) fell off a horse, potentially fracturing my coccyx. Ever since, I have been in near constant agony, as though the injury has never healed. I live in the UK and I have been trying to obtain a referral to a pain consultant who can actually investigate the problem properly and help me resolve it since January 2023, but the NHS is broken and I haven't been seen by anybody yet. Consequently, I have been making repeat visits to my GP, who are largely unhelpful; they can only prescribe resubmit the referrals and prescribe medications, but they don't even want to do that.

I have quite a high tolerance to drugs and pain relief anyway and the pain is too severe to be treated with paracetamol/codeine, so I have been given a very, very small amount of oxycodone to help deal with the pain (14 5mg tablets for a month, which I'm to take when the pain is at its very worst). I despise taking opioids, and feel extremely ashamed that I take such potent drugs; every time I go to the doctors, I feel as though they're judging me for taking medicines that I genuinely need and sometimes I go without pain relief because I can't cope with the conversations.

Today, the doctor said he was 'reluctant' to give me my medicine (which I only want to take until I can see a pain specialist and he can do something that's actually helpful), and his tone when he spoke to me was like I was a child asking for sweets who was being told 'only a few!' by a pissed off parent. When I said I preferred oxycodone to morphine because whereas morphine just makes me sleep (thereby defeating the point of taking them so I can function like a normal person), oxycodone dulls it but doesn't knock me out, he made a comment about how odd it was that oxycodone worked when morphine doesn't, as though I had an ulterior motive for wanting it. I know online searches say oxycodone can make you feel 'euphoric', but honestly it just takes the edge off - there's no happiness. At this point, I wish there was; I'm so depressed with this constant pain I can't find any joy in life.

I'm also sick of being told that research says pain relief medicines don't work for chronic pain so are pointless when they do work for me. They don't take the pain away, obviously, but they do dull its intensity. I also have a heart condition which means other medicines, such as gabapentin, are a no-no for me because they exacerbate arrythmias. I just want to take them until I see a consultant so that I can function until an actually treatment plan is decided, but I come home crying every time I ask for them because I feel like I'm constantly being judged as a drug-seeker. I'm sick of feeling embarrassed and humiliated and having to choose between being judged and being in pain.

I also feel as though my pain is constantly misunderstood by doctors. It's as though the injury is fresh and still there - it isn't a chronic ache or a 'left-over'; each time I sit for too long, it's like a fresh injury, with pain and numbness that reminds me of the first time I hurt it. They act as though it's a little ache that won't go away, not a sharp pain that's literally the same intensity as a dislocated bone. The pain is so severe and its caused by sitting and standing, which are unavoidable activities. Last week, I got up to get ready for work, sat down at my dressing table, and felt genuinely suicidal because the pain began straight away and I couldn't face yet another day of constant pain. I got back in bed and stayed there for a week, getting myself in trouble work who have put me on a warning for absence.

Today I was told to practice mindfulness to distract myself from the pain, which is apparently in my head and not really at the site of the injury at all, even though no one has actually examined it or even done an x-ray on the area since it was first fractured and dislocated in the injury.

I just don't want to do. I'm sick of being made to feel like a naughty school child every time I ask for help or say that I don't agree with the doctors. The doctor also said it's unlikely that it'll ever be cured, which made me feel great ...

This is mostly ranty, but if anyone does have anything to say - even if it's just that you've been in the same boat - I'd love to hear from you.

(P.S. I understand that the opioid crisis has resulted in many legitimate legislations being enforced to limit opioid use globally and I'm not disputing that they come with an array of problems, but there are cases where the negatives of any drugs outweigh the positives. Moreover, I only want to take them in the short-term until I see a consultant who comes up with an actual plan to treat me; it isn't my fault that NHS waiting lists are so long).

I work myself to the core. Am I trying to hard? My hands are numb everyday. Constantly in pain. My hands, neck, back, you name it. I have arthritis. Im extremely active. 33 years old and feel like I’m 20 minus the pain lol. Takes a while to heal but shiiiit it is what it is. What’s everyone do for recovery? How do you keep going? You just slap yourself and keep moving? Thanks for some suggestions and have an amazing day! Eh, don’t forget life’s short, shit happens, keep going.