I get back pain all over in random parts of the back at random times. I have had the left shoulder blade pain, too. All of my pains I have been told are related to anxiety. I don't know if it's from being so tense or what, but yes I do get it.

this is amazing to read.I just got out of the hospital for pain in my left side under the rib. Ithought I had a kidney stone. They gave me 2 ct scans lung & chest x rays, upper & lower gi's a stress test, heart monitoring, you name it, they tested it. Results: nada. I've had this pain for 5 days, not the first time. I was wrapping xmas presents on the floor, and it hit. I went to bed immediately with a heating pad. It wouldnt go away so I called my dr & he advised to go to the emerg. Room..I didnt really want to do that, but he wanted all the tests done right away, so off I went, and they kept me. Had a nasty dr there who seemed to think I was faking. Just before they released me, they told me my final ct scan showed something at the exact spot it was hurting. Finally. You want something wrong so they can fix it right?
I wish I could tell you the name of what they called it. As soon as I go for my follow up with my gp I will get it and put it on here. It sounded like something to do with appendix (but it didnt, besides I had mine out in 1955) . What my dr who had previously given me a colonoscopy told me is this: your colon is shaped like an h only the bar in the middle is at the top. Things grow off the outside of the colon made of fatty tissue and are called by this name (?) but they are usually just harmless dingleberries, he called them. They have a vein with blood going thru them, and they can twist and/or turn or kink. If they do so it can be terribly painful. In the 'old days' when this happened and people came to the hospital in such pain the only recourse was to operate to see what was causing it. When they found these things, they couldnt remove them, so they sewed the person back up and just used pain management. Which is what he said they would have to do for me. The spot he saw in the ct scan he says is a twisted 'one of these things' that i'll get the name for and there's nothing that can be done for it except take meds for pain relief. Since he did have a name for it and it made sense, I think he knows what he's talking about. Like I said, I will put the name on here as soon as I get it, and maybe the dr on here can further show us what it is. At least it's an answer (of sorts). Good luck to all of us. Oh, and as I said I had this pain before, about 5 years ago, was in the hospital for 7 days with diarreah, they called it a bowel disorder, ran a hundred tests, starved me, ran up a bill it took me over a year to pay, and didnt cure a thing.

The name of the condition is epiploic appendagitis
and it occurs outside the colon in the sigmoid area, it's a pouchy bag like diverticulitis, has a blood vessel in it and can get twisted, turned, or kinked which causes severe sharp pain.
In the old days when a patient presented with this pain the only thing dr's could do was operate to see what was inside. Upon finding this condition they could do nothing for it so closed up the incision. Now with ct scans they can see it without opening up and the only treatment is pain management. This is a condition likely to recur. Look in emedicine, sandor joffe,md, section 5 of 11.
It is not 'in your mind' you are depressed because you are in pain.