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Q: Headaches and muscle pain in legs

asked by: DoctorQuestion on October 20th, 2009

My daughter, 21 years of age, has been experiencing headaches and muscle pain in her legs EVERY single day since March 2009. We've done MRIs, CT scans, lumbar puncture, and numerous blood tests. All results are negative. She is taking so much medication to "mask" the headaches.. and it seems she is becoming immuned to those medications(stadol, phengan, valium, lyrica, cymbalta).

What do you think could be the problem? Is it fybromyalgia???

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Dr. Kokil Mathur , MD

replied on October 26th, 2009

Fibromyalgia Answer A7636

Hello and welcome to eHealth Forum!

If your daughter is suffering from headaches and muscle pain in legs then presence of giant cell arteritis along with inflammation or atherosclerosis of other vessels should be ruled out. A Doppler study or an angiogram can rule out this possibility.

It can also be chronic fatigue syndrome or even fibromyalgia. It is difficult to comment beyond this on net or give a confirmed diagnosis. Hope this helps. Take care!

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