Quote Originally Posted by graymatter
Hey mrdevious,

I'm no doctor, but I strongly suggest you get to the bottom of this before screwing around with steroids. 4 years of constant muscle pain sounds like something more serious. Have you had spinal issues ruled out?
Hey graymatter.

Yes, I do need to get to the bottom of this, but the doctors seem to be unable to provide me with a decent answer. Multiple X-rays have shown nothing wrong, hence why I wanted to get the long sought after MRI.
anyway, I'll be more specific about the injuries, hoping somebody recognizes them.

My low back I injured in Judo over 4 years ago. I was only 16 at the time, and all the other students were either 8 years old and down, or 30 years old and up (with only blue or black belts, I was a white belt). So I only fought the huge-ass guys much more skilled than I. I strained my low back from weeks of having to throw huge guys to the floor, and getting thrown and slammed into the floor myself. eventually the soft-tissue damage became too bad and I had to quit, spending the next month barely able to walk. nowadays my low back's actually not too bad, but I have my good and bad days.

My Upper back I injured in Aikido, which I attempted to join 1 year after judo, in one night of practice. we were practicing a technique in which the oppontent takes a swing at you, and you arm-lock and throw him onto the floor. So we spent about an hour doing this and I landed on the same vertebrae in my upper back about a hundred times. by the next day I was in horrible pain, and today it still hurts like hell.

My neck, probably my most painfull injury, was from a chiropractor. I was seeing him about my back and mentioned I had a stiff neck that day. so he rushed into giving me a neck adjustment, which felt fine when he did it. then as the day went on my neck started to hurt more and more. the next day at school I was having more and more trouble breathing, I went to the office, asked to call my doctor, and dropped to the floor hyperventilating as my vision went blurry. they hooked me up to oxygen and called the ambulance.
The doctor in the hospital said the neck adjustment messed up my neck so that the muscle swelled up and cut off the blood to my brain. By that time my neck was in awful pain and I spent a month in a neck brace. I'm still in a crap-load of pain today, in fact right now my shoulder and right side of my neck (it changes sides) feels like a knife is in it.

*phew* sorry about making that so long, but that's all of it. So, anybody have ideas what could be physically wrong with me?