Pain between shoulders. Feels like muscle, but doesn't react to pain meds. Flares at night.

So about 3-4 weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with pain and soreness that felt like a pulled muscle right between my shoulder blades. It was way worse lying on my side and it got to the point I had to get up and take some ibuprofen. It helped a little and I got some sleep, but it bothered me for almost a week and was always worse at night. Then it went away.

Sunday night, I was awoken again with the same pain, and it's a little worse than last time. It doesn't really seem to respond to Ibuprofen as well as Tylenol. There's not lumps, or tender spots, but it just feels like a really bad strain. However, I also woke up last night all sweaty, and I've just felt "off" since this started a few days ago. It's way worse at night and has woken me up every night since it has happened. I literally cannot find a position to lay in that doesn't make it hurt badly. Typing this out sounds like a routine muscle strain, but the fact that pain meds don't help much, and it's way worse lying down has me wondering if it might be a tumor somewhere. I'm trying to talk myself off the ledge so to speak, but it's not improving 4 days later.

I just worry about the fact that it's not going away or that it's way worse at night. I also feel like I have slight chills of and on. I just hope it's not cancer that has metastisized.

Went to the doctor today. Did a physical examination and didn't really think to seem to think it was muscle related because she couldn't find a tender spot when pressing. She did say it was somewhat of a good sign that it's less severe during the day, but I did have an x-ray and now I have to wait for the results.

mollyfin said:

Disc maybe? I've messed up a few in my day and it's not fun. I hope you get the results soon.

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Thanks. Really hoping it's not the C word.