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Pain in upper back , trapezius area
Ongoing pain for over 2 months now in this area, after injuring while working out in the gym. Was prescribed to use steroids after prolonged pain for 2 weeks. Pain went away for a few weeks after the doze of steroids, but subsequently reappears once in a while, especially in the morning after waking up from sleep
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Early morning stiffness denotes inflammatory conditions of the joints. To investigate further we need CRP & ESR to be done along with CBC.
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Early morning stiffness more than 30 mins with history of response to steroid- these two factors denotes that u may have some inflammatory kind of pain which needs to be evaluated by a Rheumatologist.
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check your ESR and CRP for inflammation.
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