stfuxitsxnano
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Hi, I have been experiencing some pain in my arm and neck recently and I am worried about what it might be. The pain in my neck is like a stiff neck which hurts only when I bend my head to the left down to my shoulder. Not when I turn my head at all. I was having shoulder pain in my left shoulder but it seems to have gone away. I notice that when I move my shoulder or neck in circles I hear a lot of cracking and popping. The pain in my left arm is more complex. For sometime now, and I am trying to pinpoint when it began and I want to say this past summer I have been experiencing a weird tightness/pain in my left arm in the arm pit and under the arm area. I would only feel this when I stretched my arm as much as possible. Recently I will get a similar pain in the same area out of nowhere usually when I a sitting. It will linger in my arm and then disappear. I have no idea if the arm pain is related to the shoulder and neck pain/cracking or not.
Now I am 21 and was diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve which was diagnosed as a mild heart murmur at birth. I have had an Echo and EKG and been to a cardiologist 3 times in my life to monitor the heart. The most recent visit which was a little over a year ago I was told the valve is not progressing and is even a little better. The first thing I thought when I felt the pain in my arm was that it was heart related. Two days ago I saw my family doctor and she told me that my pains could be just from hurting myself..pulling a muscle or something simple and to wait a week to see if I get better. If not to get an xray. She didn't listen to my heart..but I don't believe it is heart related. God forbid. Wouldn't I have other symptoms? No chest pains or shortness of breath.
So what could it be? TMJ? A pinched nerve? I even am looking into digestive problems and gas problems. I was a regular gym member all summer and somewhat in the fall, is it possible I pulled something? And it is now starting to affect me.
I feel like recently all I am doing is worrying about myself and it's really getting in the way of my schoolwork and life in general. Any input would be helpful.
Now I am 21 and was diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve which was diagnosed as a mild heart murmur at birth. I have had an Echo and EKG and been to a cardiologist 3 times in my life to monitor the heart. The most recent visit which was a little over a year ago I was told the valve is not progressing and is even a little better. The first thing I thought when I felt the pain in my arm was that it was heart related. Two days ago I saw my family doctor and she told me that my pains could be just from hurting myself..pulling a muscle or something simple and to wait a week to see if I get better. If not to get an xray. She didn't listen to my heart..but I don't believe it is heart related. God forbid. Wouldn't I have other symptoms? No chest pains or shortness of breath.
So what could it be? TMJ? A pinched nerve? I even am looking into digestive problems and gas problems. I was a regular gym member all summer and somewhat in the fall, is it possible I pulled something? And it is now starting to affect me.
I feel like recently all I am doing is worrying about myself and it's really getting in the way of my schoolwork and life in general. Any input would be helpful.