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BaCK PAIN, MUSCLE PAIN, JOINT PAIN



                                         
Asked by Unregistered on Wed 30, Apr 2008 06:51am :

I have been seeing a doctor for about 4 years and feel like I am not getting better. He currently has me on Lyrica and Skelaxin. I have muscle and joint paint in various parts of my body. He has given no definite diagnosis. What type of doctor should I be seeing. I am totally at a loss? He gives me various injections. He has done test like ultrasound, gait analysis, thermographing of my back. He always says there is something there but never reaches a conclusion or gives a diagnosis. Once he told me I had too much vitamin D and suggested Marshall Protocol antibiotic thereapy and gave me an antibiotic minocin to take every other day. I have back pain, muscle soreness, knee pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, have had frozen shoulder, the bottom of my feet hurt when i get up in the morning. I am almost in tears and feel like i am not getting any better at all. He gets very angry with me when I question him and I get very few answers. When he asked me why I wasn't taking the Lyrica three times a day I told him I felt like it was not helping me and he wadded up the prescription and threw it in the trash and said well then don't take it at all then, offered nothing except gave me another two shots in my back. What kind of a physician do I need to see?
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Answer by Dr Paul S, MD (doctor) on Fri 18, Jul 2008 10:30pm:

Hi there. Pain is really something so common and yet very hard to treat and diagnose, especially if all the tests turn out inconclusive. From the way you have described your symptoms, you may really have an idiopathic form of pain (that is, pain with no obvious cause despite diligent search) and the treatment will be directed towards the symptoms. The lyrica should help lessen this pain symptoms, but if that does not help, you can ask your doctor about additional meds like some form of anti-depressant therapy. You may also want to have this looked at by a specialist, or a rheumatologist just to be sure nothing is missed. Regards.
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