Wandering pain all over the body. Causes in joints, muscles, abdomen, back, leg, head, side

Often people complain to doctors about wandering pain all over the body, which can be short-term, long-term, appear regardless of the time of day. The reasons for their appearance are rooted in various disorders, pathologies of the body.

What are wandering pains?

The pain zone is a screen that reflects pain from the source of pain. And the root cause may be in the most unexpected place. If you listen to the pain sensations, you can understand that they fall into 2 types: pain that comes from one place and wandering.

A person will always accurately define the first type in words: a toothache or a headache. The second type of sensation is difficult to express in words, it is pain that wanders, migrates, does not find its place. They say about her: "the whole body hurts," "the whole body."

Reasons for the appearance

Migratory pain often occurs as muscle aching, throbbing, shooting, stabbing, or sharp pains. It can cause general pain that mimics flu-like symptoms, and is especially common in people with fibromyalgia and various types of arthritis.

Often there is a synchronization of the appearance of pain on the right and on the left, its progress in certain zones: the forearm, limbs, lower leg, thigh.

In the joints

Migratory arthritis is characterized by severe swelling in one or two joints. When symptoms disappear in one location, similar symptoms begin to appear in the other joint, usually in an asymmetrical location.

Symptoms go away over the next few days before flaring up again. Migratory arthritis is associated with rheumatoid arthritis, arthrosis, and gout.

In the muscles

Fibromyalgia is characterized by fatigue, sleep disturbance, increasing or decreasing pain, and migrating to all parts of the body. The pain is usually symmetrical and often chronic. Fibromyalgia is associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome.

In a stomach

Wandering pain throughout the body, the causes of which are not always clear, can be an echo of a chronic disease of the internal organs. The provocateurs in this case are pancreatitis, gastritis, appendicitis.

Less commonly, pain is caused by systemic internal diseases: gastric lesions in systemic scleroderma, dermatomyositis.

In back

The pain that migrates can come from the back or neck. In these cases, diseases of the spine or muscles are diagnosed. Sharp pain along the back is noted with myositis. The picture of the disease is complicated by the arising muscle spasms in the back.

Reasons that caused the symptoms:

• cold;
• inflammation;
• hypothermia;
• physical, emotional overload.

Physical inactivity affects the development of back and neck pain. They arise from compression of the nerves, blood vessels that feed the brain. With a sedentary lifestyle, the vertebral artery is often affected, which is a complex disorder accompanied by dizziness.

In hand

When pain occurs that affects the hands, it is difficult to make an accurate diagnosis, because visible inflammation and damage are often not observed. The disorder can occur after physical strain, lack of enzymes in muscle tissue, stress, overwork.

At the feet

Leg pain can be the result of chronic diseases of the arteries, hip joint, osteochondrosis. The developing flat feet affect the arches of the feet, they thicken, and the ligaments and muscles weaken. As a result, there is pain in the legs, aggravated by walking. Painful sensations also appear with the syndrome of "tired legs".

In the head

Wandering pain throughout the body (the cause can be determined by knowing the exact topography of the onset of symptoms) is often accompanied by headaches. With such symptoms, neurological diseases are diagnosed.

They are based on internal and external reasons:

• Pinched nerve. In this case, the spinal roots are compressed due to osteochondrosis, muscle spasms, which causes burning acute pain.
• Injuries, infections affect the development of pain in the frontal part.
• Wearing an uncomfortable headgear can cause discomfort in the head area.

In the side

Inflammation of the liver, gallbladder provoke pain in the right side, and in the left side are the stomach, esophagus. In some cases, side pain is caused by anxiety disorders, panic attacks. Often they occur together with chest pains when there is a lack of air.

Throughout the body

Pain spreading throughout the body may be the result of physical overload, uncomfortable body position during a night's sleep. This type of disorder is short-lived and resolves quickly. If it continues for several days, then fibromyalgia may develop.

During pregnancy

Pain that occurs during pregnancy can be divided into obstetric and non-obstetric. The first include those that occur with abnormalities: placental abruption, ectopic pregnancy. The second includes sensations that are considered the norm: stretching ligaments that support the fetus, deterioration of intestinal motility, pressure of the growing uterus, and constipation.

All this affects the onset of pain, which can be not only local, but also migratory. Many women are faced with lower back pain radiating to the legs, arms, pain in the sacrum, pubic area.

Diseases with pains wandering all over the body

Wandering pains are rarely urgent, except those caused by infectious causes. Many diseases are accompanied by migratory pain that occurs in various parts of the body.

Rheumatoid arthritis

A chronic inflammatory disease that affects not only the joints, but also various body systems:

• eyes;
• skin;
• lungs;
• a heart;
• blood vessels.

An autoimmune disease is accompanied by edema, joint pain, and joint stiffness. As the disease progresses, symptoms spread to the wrists, knees, ankles, hips, and hands. In most cases, unpleasant symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of the body.

Fibromyalgia

The causes of pain in this disorder are infection, overexertion, and trauma, both physical and emotional. Wandering pain associated with fibromyalgia is often described as dull, persistent, lasting several months. It occurs above the waist all over the body on both sides. It is often accompanied by headaches and discomfort in the area of ​​the temporomandibular joint.

lupus erythematosus

Chronic systemic disease, inherent in young women and girls, affects connective tissues and blood vessels. In this case, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, mucous membranes of the mouth and nose, vasculitis can be observed. Abdominal pain, wandering, affecting many organs is possible.

Reactive arthritis

An inflammatory disease that affects the joints develops after infections. It is characterized by soreness in the joints, often in the kneecaps, and also in the ankles, feet, heels, lower back, or buttocks.

Still's disease

A rare type of inflammatory arthritis that is characterized by joint pain. This can hurt your ankles, elbows, arms, and shoulders. The cause of the disease is a viral or bacterial infection, traumatic joint damage.

Palindromic rheumatism

A disease characterized by short attacks of arthritis, in which the knee joint, metacarpophalangeal, wrist, and temporomandibular joints are affected. The site of localization in each attack changes, while the inflammatory process affects one or more joints.

Polyarthritis

A chronic disease that affects several joints that can become inflamed at the same time or in succession. The clinical picture varies depending on the type of polyarthritis, the reasons that caused it. The general symptom is pain in joints, muscles, weakness.

Infections

Diseases caused by microorganisms have common symptoms in the form of fatigue, pain in the head, muscles, aches throughout the body. These types include Lyme disease, intestinal diseases, flu, tonsillitis.

Intoxication

Acute poisoning is characterized by strong painful sensations throughout the body, muscles, joints, and in the head. Intoxication can be caused by substances that have entered the body with food, water, medicines, pollution from the environment.

Mental disorders

Pain and mental health have a fairly close relationship. In addition, physical illness, especially chronic illness, often leads to mental health problems. Conditions such as fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, heart disease, rheumatoid or osteoarthritis, cancer, and others cause constant pain in one or more areas of the body.

This type of incessant pain can be both physically and emotionally depressing. Physical pain can be so overwhelming that it contributes to mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, stress causes migratory pain throughout the body.

When should you see a doctor?

A person suffering from body aches should consult a doctor if home treatment proves to be ineffective. You should also seek medical attention if migratory body pain is persistent and intense, if it is caused by certain medications or is accompanied by symptoms:

• fever;
• severe swelling or redness;
• swelling of the joints;
• rashes.

Other symptoms that may require urgent medical attention are:

• dyspnea;
• water retention;
• stiff neck;
• muscle weakness;
• inability to move the affected area;
• extreme tiredness;
• nausea, vomiting;
• sensitivity to light;
• difficulty swallowing;
• fainting and seizures.

If the moving body pain persists for more than 2 weeks and the underlying cause cannot be determined, the person should see a doctor regardless of whether any other symptoms occur or no. If migratory pain occurs, you should visit a therapist. After the examination, the doctor may refer to other specialists.

Diagnostics of the flowing pain

Wandering pain throughout the body, the causes of which are identified with a doctor, should be treated as early as possible to interrupt the pain cycle. By its nature, migratory pain can be difficult to diagnose. The doctor must assess the state of health, conduct a complete blood count, check the glucose level.

During the diagnosis, the psychoemotional state of the patient should be checked.

Differentiation

When making a diagnosis, in many cases, difficulties arise in determining the various types of arthritis, rheumatism, polyarthritis. In patients with chronic pain of unclear etiology, dangerous and serious diseases should be excluded.

In order to correctly diagnose the disease, some parameters should be determined:

• how was the onset of the disease;
• predominant localization of pain;
• the frequency and frequency of relapse;
• connection with a previous infection, if any;
• the duration and intensity of pain;
• whether there is local inflammation;
• whether there are lesions of internal organs;
• evaluate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Analyzes

In medical practice, the tactics of treating patients with acute and chronic pain are different. For acute pain, treatment begins immediately, and for chronic pain, preliminary studies should be carried out.

Other laboratory tests include:

• determination of the level of erythrocytes;
• calcium and vitamin D levels;
• the level of the hormone prolactin;
• analysis of synovial fluid;
• blood chemistry.

 Hardware research

During the study, it is necessary to pay additional attention to the musculoskeletal system, the nervous system.

In this case, it becomes necessary to apply visualization methods:

• radiography;
• echocardiography;
• ECG;
• tomography;
• isotope bone scintigraphy.

With their help, old wounds, places of pinching of nerves are revealed, neuromuscular conduction is determined.

Treatment principles

There is no definite standard for the treatment of pain throughout the body. And there is no medicine that can solve all the problems at the same time. Traditional and alternative treatments can be effective. The treatment program includes a combination of drugs, exercises to strengthen various parts of the body, and aerobic exercise.

Treatment methods for different types of pain are selected individually:

Diseases	Treatment principles
Fibromyalgia	Massage, physiotherapy exercises, physiotherapy procedures are prescribed
Antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs
Infectious diseases	Antibacterial medicines are prescribed
Polyarthritis	NSAIDs, steroid drugs
Mental disorders	Neuropathic pain is treated with vasoactive drugs (Trental), antidepressants, reflexology, acupuncture
Reactive arthritis	Steroids, antidepressants are prescribed

The principle of the treatment process is an individual approach to the elimination of pain in each patient. Non-invasive pain management methods are often used.

Pain is one of the pressing problems of modern medicine. However, the mechanism of development of its species, the reasons for its occurrence are not fully understood. Any pain, including wandering throughout the body, is one of the most common complaints that force you to see a doctor.

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