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What Causes Pain In Legs, Lower Back While Walking And Shivering After Exercising?
Question: when I walk my legs hurt,lower back,hips,butt cheecks. Any physical activity makes me weak to the point where I feel shaky.Tired of suffering the consequenses of being active.muscles get tired quickly.Had numerous blood tests,mri*s,ultrasounds all come up negative. IN some kind of pain 99% of the time.n No pain relievers on the market helps.Laying in bed is the only way to get some relief. Forcing me to retire early because Dr has not been able to help me.Been seeing him since dec. 15th,and condition has only gotten worse.
Brief Answer:
yeah, get the MRI/MRA
Detailed Answer:
ok....since I'm not there to examine there are some limits on what I can answer. The possibilities are spinal stenosis (which really needs an MRI to see, and requires surgery. some benefit from the surgery is likely), spinal stenosis like conditions due to tumor, congenital abnormality (spina bifida), circulatory problems not getting enough blood to the lower limbs (this is fixable). There can be a problem with nerves as a whole but this seems quite unlikely due to the area (not all the nerves) and that nerve problems tend to be only at the ends of the longer nerves and not whole limbs. Depression frequently does this. When we either don't know what is causing it, or do not want to look further, or don't believe the patient we can call it fibromyalgia, but I would not do that.
Frankly the "get tired early" often means a serious condition (if you include depression into "serious conditions" and I do, then it ALWAYS indicates a serious condition) and could be any of the ones mentioned or ALS or MS, but neither is it likely to be nothing nor fibromyalgia. Nerve conductions would be helpful for those conditions and also possibly helpful on lumbar disk/spinal stenosis for making a diagnosis.
yeah, get the MRI/MRA
Detailed Answer:
ok....since I'm not there to examine there are some limits on what I can answer. The possibilities are spinal stenosis (which really needs an MRI to see, and requires surgery. some benefit from the surgery is likely), spinal stenosis like conditions due to tumor, congenital abnormality (spina bifida), circulatory problems not getting enough blood to the lower limbs (this is fixable). There can be a problem with nerves as a whole but this seems quite unlikely due to the area (not all the nerves) and that nerve problems tend to be only at the ends of the longer nerves and not whole limbs. Depression frequently does this. When we either don't know what is causing it, or do not want to look further, or don't believe the patient we can call it fibromyalgia, but I would not do that.
Frankly the "get tired early" often means a serious condition (if you include depression into "serious conditions" and I do, then it ALWAYS indicates a serious condition) and could be any of the ones mentioned or ALS or MS, but neither is it likely to be nothing nor fibromyalgia. Nerve conductions would be helpful for those conditions and also possibly helpful on lumbar disk/spinal stenosis for making a diagnosis.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Ido not suffer from depression and fibromyalga has been ruled out. Had upper back checked by mri. was ok,just had a little arthritis.Are you talking about lower back mri? I said my muscles get weak very fast.Cant excersize or stretch because it only causes discomfort.Its not just my legs,it my whole body.Can you be more specific on this test your talking about?
Brief Answer:
Very good.
Detailed Answer:
Yes, the spinal stenosis would be at the uppermost point of the pain. The lower back. And an MRI of the lower back, called a "lumbar MRI".
To reiterate,
Frankly the "get tired early" often means a serious condition (if you include depression into "serious conditions" and I do, then it ALWAYS indicates a serious condition) and could be any of the ones mentioned or ALS or MS, but neither is it likely to be nothing nor fibromyalgia. Nerve conductions would be helpful for those conditions and also possibly helpful on lumbar disk/spinal stenosis for making a diagnosis.
Very good.
Detailed Answer:
Yes, the spinal stenosis would be at the uppermost point of the pain. The lower back. And an MRI of the lower back, called a "lumbar MRI".
To reiterate,
Frankly the "get tired early" often means a serious condition (if you include depression into "serious conditions" and I do, then it ALWAYS indicates a serious condition) and could be any of the ones mentioned or ALS or MS, but neither is it likely to be nothing nor fibromyalgia. Nerve conductions would be helpful for those conditions and also possibly helpful on lumbar disk/spinal stenosis for making a diagnosis.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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