I have been having all kinds of pains and aches all over my body for a few weeks now. It all started when (I think) I pulled a chest muscle. Well, I assumed that the pains I was having were my heart but that all checked out OK. Since then, I've been having pains in all different areas. Today for example, all morning my left shoulder was killing me. Then that went away and now I have pain in my right side.

Has anyone ever experienced this 'roaming' symptom thing???? I swear I think I'm losing my mind or something is REALLY wrong that is affecting my whole body.

OMG, I feel exactly this way, one day it will be my arm or my neck then its my legs, some days it is my whole body but most of the time my head feels weird. I hope this helps. I aslways scare myself that i am dying.

This has been my life for the last few years. I used to have "inner mental" anxiety; now I have these physical weird aches and pains. I know that it is anxiety manifesting itself in new and different forms.

It seems once I solve one symptom, another comes to test me. It is hard to deal objectively with physical problems, because in the back of your mind, I think THIS IS IT!
I'm going to die of ... (whatever the symptom is)!

It seems once I solve one symptom, another comes to test me. It is hard to deal objectively with physical problems, because in the back of your mind, I think THIS IS IT!
I'm going to die of ... (whatever the symptom is)!

That is EXACTLY how it is with me. I see different doctors and its like I check off one thing and then something else pops up. Eventually, I guess I'll have nothing left to check. haha.

some days it is my whole body but most of the time my head feels weird. I hope this helps. I aslways scare myself that i am dying.

My head always feels weird too! What is that????
It's something that I can't even explain well enough to ask a doctor about it, you know?

Me too! :bouncing: I was dx'd with fibro in 96. Totaly healthy and in good shape before 1995. When second son was born at the end of 95 and all heck broke loose between families, I started getting physical symptoms.

I went 10 yrs looking for answers. MS, lupus, pd, and the list goes on.

Every test normal for 10 yrs.

My take on it all now that it's been 10 yrs.:
1995 stess from families, depression set in, dissociation set in (didn't know this back then though), anxiety set in....
10 yrs of all of this + a H who doesn't talk about things w/me adds up to:

Stess+depression+anxiety+panic attacks=fibromyalgia & chronic Myofacial Pain Syndrome (which the dr dx'd me with when I fought the fibro dx)

*This is my experience only* H still doesn't communicate w/me :eek:

Wanted to add that I also developed (back then) TMJ, endometriosis, and Gerd....all symptoms that I didn't have before all of this happened in 95
Also possible now that it's all called somatization disorder.

Hello- I SO know what you are talking about! My pain goes from one area to another and I think it always stems from a pulled chest muscle as well. One minute my arm hurts, the next minute my shoulder, than my back....it's endless!! I have been for every test which has always checked out negative. (Thank god!) It got to the point where I started on Zoloft 2 weeks ago. Hang in there....things will get better!

Hey everybody.. It's been awhile since I have posted b/c I've been feeling pretty good. The past two days have been rough though. In December I had my last "symptom" checked out.. and, as I kind of suspected, my heart was fine. According to the doctor, "Heart palpitations are normal" and I should just "ignore them." (Yeah, right) I've been ok since then, but now, I'm having all these weird pains like a lot of you are describing. My left hip feels very tight and strained, and I get dull aches in my back and lower pelvic area. I've been thru all the symptom shifting too. I used to get weird joint pain & I swore I had lymes disease. Then it went to headaches, which equaled a brain tumor, I've had weird tingly feelings in my arms & legs, and this, of course equals a stroke. My mind also goes directly to cancer... colon cancer, ovarian cancer... It's like this evil word that pops into my head at the slightest sign of anything that I interpret as an abnormal feeling. It's so frustrating b/c I am reluctant to go to my Doc. He just wants me to take meds, but I feel like my concerns are valid, and I have to beg him to give me tests for the things I am concerned about. I feel for anyone who is experiencing these things b/c it is a nightmare.. Atleast we have these boards to know we are not alone.. Hope all is well.... Kim :rolleyes:

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I am going through the "roaming" pain also. I was dx with fibro and myofascial pain. I have had anxiety and depression for years. The symptoms I see on here sound very familiar!
Hope everyone hangs in there!
~Mim :wave:

I have depression and anxiety and suffer from twitches and pain, mostly in my wrists and ankles. I've had all the tests, neurological, lyme, arthritis, Etc. and they are fine. I try not to think about it. I have been told that depression and anxiety can cause these physical symptoms. Best to get checked and if OK, relax. (yeah, easier said than done, I know!)

Honestly, as we grow older, pains come and go. I get a lot of muscle pains. So does really everyone I know. We all laugh about it. I think when you are in an anxious state you hone in on it and then get nervous about it. We all do it. The trick is to keep as busy as you can, if possible get out and go out and have a little fun. If you can't get out-call a friend-rent a really funny movie. A real strain can easily take 3-6 weeks to recover.

I to get the 'roaming pain'. Mine can be headache, stomach, upper back and shoulders. My latest one is actually in my heart, it goes from my heart upto my shoulder. Guess what, a couple of antacids and its gone (lol).
Ive had every test known and im still here, but its a truly horrible thing to have.
what most people would brush off as a simple ache or pain, an anxiety suferer always imagines the worst case scenario.

I agree with you all!! Over the years,I have had all of the symptoms mentioned and suffered the same ones you have and it's so funny how your mind always decides that this is it,you're going to die from this. Now,I have had a throat virus,which it seems everyone has at this time of year,but I have a (feels like a ball in my throat) that comes and goes. Went to the Med center and some doctor who looked all of 16,said he couldn't see anything in my throat,that I should see my doctor,it could be a growth or cancer,wonderful thing to tell a person with health anxiety!! I just had a CT scan and Ultrasound done in late November,showed nothing except small goiter,which they assured me was very common. But because of that doctor,I'm obsessing over my throat and feeling like it could be life threatening!! Life just keeps getting better,doesn't it?

ugh mrs hypochondriac here lol .......
I can be fine and blow off physical things I feel and then one day it slams me and I have an almost constant state of worry right now well for the last 4 to 5 months my worry is heart blockages I have had these pain in my left arm and other various parts but all in the left side so of course I freak and say "it has to be MY HEART!" well ive had some tests came back good im now awaiting a stress/echo test this friday the 10th.Hopefully IF that comes out all good then I can lay this thinking its my heart to rest.Then if its not my doctor wants to do yep more testing lol for nerves or muscular things I am so sick of all this I mean I do the testing though because I know even though I have anxiety disorder it is still very possible for me to end up with something really real one day so I wanna play it safe and hopefully get some peace of mind.Although people without anxiety disorder can think they possibly have something wrong but they will just get checked and not worry about it 24/7 I sure wish I could be that way :rolleyes:

Don't you think that instead of investing millions of dollars into studying things like the mating habits of the Tse Tse fly they would study the anxiety problems,like what causes some of us to have them? Oh,well, We shall overcome!!

Good idea!!

Yep, dr at CC handed me the MMP personality test to take....

I was on the border of Conversion Disorder!!! Thank goodness I didn't cross that line.

10 yrs is a very long time to worry about some illness that was never there....

They kept trying to tell me it's anxiety, depression.....In my mind I was thinking.."No way, my symptoms are to severe for just anxiety/depression"

I still have all of my physical symptoms (they are very real). But, I'm learning how to breath normally, cutting stress out of my life, and I have a wonderful psychologist.

H is opening up to me more and we're talking about things!! That's a BIG plus for me.

It's amazing how your body screams at you with physical pain to get your attention that the stress, worry, anxiety, depression is overloading the brain.

It is very unfortuneate that those who don't suffer from anxiety have a problem understanding it,but in all honesty,if I didn't suffer from so many anxiety problems myself and someone were to tell me that they suffered from all the same problems, I would sympathize with them but I probably wouldn't really understand. If you didn't have the problem and I were to tell you that I feel like I'm half choking from what feels like a lump in my throat ,that I'm petrified that I might have a growth or cancer there or that I'm afraid of having a heart problem or just that at times I feel that I'm losing my mind and all I want to do is scream and cry at times, would you really understand? I don't think there are many spouses or significent others who would understand,they would just tell us they're sick of hearing it,they don't realize that we HAVE to talk about it or go totally bonkers!

Exactly Zimm it helps me to just speak out all the physical things that are bothering me at the time and my worries now I have a husband who loves me but he really cannot fully understand sometimes he will talk with me about it other times he just changes the subject or blows it off.When I first started having anxiety problems though he was just as scared as me the first horrible illness I thought I had was a brain tumor and he was really wonderful during that year of hell he took me to different hospitals universaties etc and a few times I saw the obvious fear in his eyes.Coincidently he was driving to work one day and over the radio came a commercial about anxiety and panic attacks he came home and said "that is YOU! you have all those symptoms!"

anyway I kind of went off on a rant lol but your right those without this issue cannot really understand