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11371651 tn?1417628832

Could depression cause - twitches, tightness, and pain?

I'm a 31 male. All this for me started Oct 1st, it first started with a twitching (not tremor) right index finger, which stop after a couple of days but then my right hand started to become tight and painful, sometimes it was as if I could feel the nerve in my right ring finger (rubber band feeling), that spread into my forearm which begun to hurt, eventually my bicep, and then my upper arm and finally my shoulder and into the right side of my neck started to feel tight and painful.

Currently, the pain has remained in my shoulder and my neck but the rest of my arm doesn't feel as bad as it used to, oddly enough, my right hip decided to join the fun and is now hurting, like a soreness which seems to fluctuate from my groin area to the outside of my hip, sometimes it feels like a pressure, like an air pocket, other times it's painful. It doesn't seem to matter what position I"m in or what I"m doing, the pain is always there. Odd thing is, this is mainly just my RIGHT side, I'll have the occasional pain on my left side or a muscle twitch here and there, but it's mostly my RIGHT side that's affected.

Sometimes I have facial numbness in certain areas that seem to pass quickly and twitches in other parts of my body, fairly infrequent now but still happens daily. When all this started I immediately saw a doctor which led to a neurologist and a rheutomologist visit, I've gotten a slew of blood work done and a brain and cervical MRI, everything basically came back okay.

When all this started I was feverishly searching the internet for my symptoms and I kept getting pointed to Parkinson's so I thought I would throw this out there and see what you guys think.

I've gone from telling myself it's not serious to thinking it is to thinking it's not, I'm sick of being in pain daily and not know why, any help would be very much appreciated! All the doctors can't seem to find anything. I don't know what to do anymore. My anxiety is through the roof and I feel depressed.
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11371651 tn?1417628832
Thanks for the comment. I really hope it's not Parkinsons! At only 31 that would be devastating for me.

Did your mom have a tremor?

I've seen two neuro's, one was a movement disorder specialist (MDS) (specializes in things like Parkinson's) and both of them said it wasn't that and the MDS thought it might not even be neurological in nature..but who knows..I'm at the point where I just want to feel better, all this pain is putting me into a depression.
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6726276 tn?1421126668
It still could be Parky. My moms systems were like yours & it took 10 years to get the diagnosis.
  They have specialists for Parkinson's.  I have tremor syndrome. My mom & I went together to USC in CA. And to Yale university. They both said, she definitely has it. You ( me) definitely not.  This as from only watching us walk accross the room.
  She's properly medicated. Has had brain surgery. In her 80's. still looks & acts like she's in her 60's.
    I have bipolar. So I understand depression.   Maxy
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