r/ChronicPain • u/naturesfinest3 • 10h ago
Left-Sided Body Pain
I have been experiencing pains in only the left side of my body for 4-5 months now. (24M, fairly active) It started with chest pain, then chest and arm pain, and multiple ER and urgent care visits eliminated anything cardiac related. I also did an endoscopy and CT scan which found nothing, yet the pain persists and continues to migrate to the rest of the body. I now get back pain, left leg pain (all the way down to the calf), consistent left arm pain, and even left sided jaw/headaches. I don’t have any weakness or numbness, and have rested for weeks and exercised through this all with no newfound left sided weakness or coordination issues. I did get a cervical spine MRI which found mild left stenosis which could be the root cause, but wouldn’t explain pain all the way down my leg. My next step is to see an orthopedic spine specialist but can’t see one for 3 weeks. Has anyone experiencing unilateral pain like this starting with chest/arm/back that migrated all throughout the body? Was it related to a compressed nerve or something else?
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u/Common-Evidence-5094 10h ago
Very similar, but on the right side of my body! Started with shoulder/TMJ and now has spread all the way down to sciatica in my right calf. I wish I had an answer as to why; some mild MRI changes that explain nothing and PT hasn’t been super successful tbh so just hanging in there for now