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Myalgia: Introduction

Myalgia: Muscle aches and pains. See free access online books about Myalgia below. See detailed information below for a list of 116 causes of Myalgia, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Diagnostic Guides for Myalgia

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Medical Books Excerpts
  • Myalgia
  • "In a Page: Signs and Symptoms" (2004)
  • Myalgias
  • "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
 

Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

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Causes of Myalgia listed in Disease Database:

Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible causes of Myalgia as a symptom include:

See full list of 116 causes of Myalgia
- (Source - Diseases Database)

Medications or substances causing Myalgia:

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible causes of Myalgia as a symptom. Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using, including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.

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Definitions of Myalgia:

Myalgia: Avoid the jargonistic use of the plural form myalgias in the sense of 'episodes or zones of muscular aching'. Muscular pain. SYN: myodynia. [G. mys, muscle, + algos, pain]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Myalgia: Pain or aching in a muscle or muscles.
- (Source - Diseases Database)

Pain in a muscle or group of muscles
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Detailed list of causes of Myalgia

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How Common are these Causes of Myalgia?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Myalgia. Of the 116 causes of Myalgia that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

  • 3 causes are "very common" diseases
  • 3 causes are "common" diseases
  • 1 causes are "uncommon" diseases
  • 1 causes are "rare" diseases
  • 17 causes are "very rare" diseases
  • 99 causes have no prevalence information.

See the analysis of the prevalence of 116 causes of Myalgia

Conditions listing symptoms: Myalgia:

The following list of conditions have 'Myalgia' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

  • Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment ... myalgia
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 1 ... myalgia

    B

  • Babesiosis ... Myalgia
  • Bartonellosis due to Bartonella quintana infection ... myalgia
  • Blastomycosis ... myalgia

    C

  • Coccidioidomycosis ... myalgias, myalgia

    D

  • Delayed Viral Syndromes ... Myalgia

    E

  • Enolase deficiency type 3 ... myalgia
  • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli Infection ... Myalgias
  • Epidemic typhus ... myalgia

    F

  • Filovirus ... Myalgia
  • Flavivirus ... Myalgias
  • Flu ... myalgia

    H

  • Hantavirosis ... myalgia
  • Hantavirus ... Myalgias
  • Histoplasmosis ... myalgias
  • Human parvovirus B19 infection ... myalgia

    I

  • Infectious Diarrhea ... Myalgia

    M

  • Marburg virus ... myalgia
  • Meningococcal disease ... myalgia
  • Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency ... myalgia

    N

  • Norwalk gastroenteritis ... myalgia

    O

  • Optic neuropathy, anterior ischemic ... myalgia

    P

  • Phosphate diabetes ... myalgia
  • Postoperative septicaemia ... Myalgias

    Q

  • Q fever ... myalgia

    R

  • Rhinovirus infection ... myalgia
  • Rickettsia siberica ... myalgia
  • Rickettsia typhi ... myalgia
  • Rickettsial disease ... myalgia
  • Ricketttsialpox ... myalgia
  • Roundworm ... Myalgias

    S

  • Sepsis ... Myalgias
  • Spotted fevers ... Myalgias
  • Staphylococcal infection ... Myalgia
  • Streptococcal Infections ... Myalgia

    T

  • Toxemia ... Myalgia
  • Typhoid fever ... myalgia

    V

  • Vasculitis, cutaneous necrotising ... Myalgia
  • Vibrio ... Myalgias
  • Vibrio vulnificus infection ... Myalgias
  • Viral digestive infections ... Myalgias
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers ... Myalgia

    W

  • Weber-Christian disease ... Myalgia
  • Weil's syndrome ... Myalgia
  • West nile encephalitis ... Myalgia
  • West Nile fever ... Myalgia
  • Western equine encephalitis ... Myalgia
  • Western/Eastern/California encephalitis ... Myalgia
  • Worm conditions ... Myalgias
  • Wuchereria bancrofti ... myalgia

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  • Causes of Myalgia Based on Risk Factors

    This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Myalgia based on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:

  • Travel - has the patient travelled recently?
  • Diabetes - history of diabetes or family history of diabetes?

    What are the alternative names for Myalgia:

    Muscle pain, Myodynia
    - (Source - Diseases Database)

    Classifications of Myalgia:

    Medical Conditions associated with Myalgia:

    Muscle pain (792 causes), Pain (5609 causes), Muscle aches (792 causes), Muscle symptoms (4254 causes), Sensations (5876 causes), Aches (829 causes), Nerve symptoms (6219 causes), Common symptoms (7717 causes)

    Symptoms related to Myalgia:

    Muscle spasms (1689 causes), Muscle pain (792 causes), Muscle tone symptoms, 5-Azacytidine, Aluminium (dialysis related) toxicity), Amphotericin B, Arsenic trioxide, Arsenicals, Atorvastatin, Blood transfusion, Bornholm disease, Brucellosis, Campylobacter jejuni, Cholesterol embolism

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