Nerve pain

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I found something on the web:

http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic41485.html

Note the reply by nmastino, who experiences something similar to your son

(back pain while swallowing), and describes what it turned out to be for

him--and it was a nerve problem.

then read the entry below:

Accessory Nerve AKA Cranial Nerve XI supplies part of the vagus nerve,

which goes to the esophagus, voice box, larynx and many other places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_nerve

Hope you guys get it figured out. It would be nice if it turns out to be

something that will heal in a few weeks, like this other guy posted.

Mindy, mom to , 8, newly diagnosed CVID, autism, asthma, GERD, and

multiple food allergies.....

and six other special kids

> Hi All,

> My son is currently in the hospital and has been since Tuesday. He

started

> out a month ago with stabbing pain in his mid-back when swallowing, It

got

> really bad and we ended up in the ER, went through a chest x-ray, blood

work, PE study and nothing found. 2 days later he was starting to feel

better and went to basketball practice-came home with severe chest pain,

racing heart, high blood pressure. Our thought at the time was a new med

he was taking so he stopped it and the heart rate and blood pressure

came

> down but the chest pain and back pain swallowing stayed. Ended up back

in

> the ER - chest x-ray, blood work, EKG, all normal.

> Went to the doc about every three days over two and half week period, as

pain did not subside, received abdominal CT w/contrast, ultrasound of

spleen and pancreas, MRI of spine additional blood work, 10 days of

ceftin. Pain still in chest and back when swallowing, severe pain and

tenderness in chest but now worst in ribs, lost 10 lbs this last 4

weeks,

> tried anti-virals, prednisone, levaquin. So our doc said admit him to

hospital and he has had bone scan; which is clean. Received endoscopy

today which looked completely normal. But when he came back from the

endoscopy he was doubled over in pain. He said it was way worse then

before and he had a horrible migraine, two doses of dilauded, a percocet

and zofran he fell asleep.

> So after all that they are thinking nerve pain. I know he can't go home

in this much pain as he has been on pain killers almost non-stop over

the

> last month. Anybody run into anything like this before??

> He's also currently off of IVIG, due to go back on next month.

> Thanks,

>

> Mom to Devin, 17, CVID

>