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Causes of Muscle aches
This section discusses 365 medical conditions causing Muscle aches. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Muscle aches:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Muscle aches.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Excessive exercise (see Exercise symptoms)
- Unaccustomed exertion
- Muscle injury
- Muscle strain
- Infection - many infections cause muscle aches and pains.
- Fibromyalgia - causing multiple muscle tender points.
- Thyroid disease
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Depression
- Arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Muscle metabolism disorders
- Dermatomyositis - cause multiple muscle cramps
- Polymyositis - cramps in many muscles
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Diabetes - may cause muscle cramps if undiagnosed or poorly controlled
- Diabetic ketoacidosis - muscle breakdown may cause muscle cramps
- Circulatory disorders
- Intermittent claudication - usually causing calf muscle pain
- Tetanus
- Certain medications
- See also causes of muscle cramps and muscle pain
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Muscle aches:
The following list of conditions have 'Muscle aches' 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.
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Conditions listing medical complications: Muscle aches:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Muscle aches' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Muscle aches
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- Medical Textbooks Online for Muscle aches
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- Sexual causes of Muscle aches
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List of 365 causes of Muscle aches
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Muscle aches in our database from various sources.
- Acanthosis nigricans muscle cramps acral enlargement - muscle cramps
- Acid-Base Imbalance - muscle cramps
- Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment - myalgia
- Adrenal gland hypofunction - muscle pain
- African Sleeping sickness - aching muscles
- Alcoholic Neuropathy - cramps in calf muscles
- Alcoholic, reversible acute muscular - muscle ache
- Aleukemic leukemia cutis - muscle pain
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 3 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4, juvenile - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 9 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 1 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 2 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 3 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 4 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 5 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 6 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 7 - muscle cramps
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 8 - muscle cramps
- Angiopathy, hereditary, with nephropathy, aneurysms and muscle cramps - muscle cramps
- Anterior pituitary hyperhormonotrophic syndrome - muscle cramps
- Anthrax - muscle aches
- Arachnidism - muscle pain
- Arbovirosis - aching muscles
- Argentinean hemorrhagic fever - muscle pain
- Arteriosclerosis Obliterans - muscle pain
- Arthritis
- Ativan withdrawal - muscle cramps
- Babesiosis - muscle pain
- Bacterial infection
- Bacterial meningitis - aching muscles
- Barmah Forest virus - muscle aches
- Bartonellosis due to Bartonella quintana infection - muscle pain
- Bartter's syndrome, antenatal type 1 - muscle cramps
- Bartters syndrome, antenatal , type 2 - muscle cramps
- Beriberi - muscle aches
- Biotin deficiency - muscle pains
- Blastomycosis - myalgia
- Bolivian hemorrhagic fever - muscle pain
- Bornholm disease - rib muscle tenderness
- Borreliosis - muscle pain
- Bortonneuse fever - muscle pain
- Bowel bypass syndrome - muscle pain
- Bowel-associated dermatosis-arthritis syndrome - muscle pain
- Brill disease - muscle pain
- Brucellosis - muscle pain
- Calcification of basal ganglia with or without hypocalcemia - muscle cramping
- Carbon monoxide poisoning - severe muscle pains
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency - aching muscles
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency - aching muscles
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, infantile hepatocardiomuscular type - aching muscles
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, lethal neonatal form - aching muscles
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, myopathic - aching muscles
- Celiac Disease - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 1 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 10 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 11 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 12 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 13 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 2 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 3 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 4 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 5 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 6 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 7 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 8 - muscle cramps
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 9 - muscle cramps
- Certain medications
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2 - muscle pain
- Childhood hypophosphatasia - muscle pain
- Cholera - muscle cramps
- Chronic fatigue syndrome - Muscle aches
- Chronic Hepatitis C - muscle pain
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy - aching muscle pain
- Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders - muscle pain
- Ciguatera poisoning - muscle aches
- Circulatory disorders
- Cocaine abuse - sore muscles
- Cocaine withdrawal - muscle pain
- Coccidioidomycosis - myalgias
- Codeine withdrawal - muscle pain
- Crack withdrawal - muscle pain
- Cramp - Muscle Pain
- Cramp-fasciculations syndrome - muscle cramps
- Crush injury - Muscle pain
- Cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis - muscle pain
- Cyclosporiasis - muscle aches
- Cyclosporiosis - aching muscles
- Cytosine arabinose syndrome - muscle pain
- Dana syndrome - muscle pain
- Dehydration - muscle cramps
- Delayed Viral Syndromes - Myalgia
- Dengue fever - muscle aches
- Depression - muscle aches
- Depressive disorders - muscle aches
- Dermatomyositis - muscles ache
- Diabetes - muscle aches
- Diabetic ketoacidosis - muscle breakdown may cause muscle cramps
- Dilaudid withdrawal - muscle cramps
- Dilutional hyponatremia - muscle cramps
- Disequilibrium syndrome - muscle cramps
- Distal hereditary motor neuropathy, type V - hand cramps
- Donepezil toxicity - muscle cramps
- Dysthymia - muscle aches
- Dystonia 12 - muscle cramping
- East African Trypanosomiasis - aching muscles
- Ebola - muscle aches
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, classic type - muscle cramps
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, tenascin-X deficiency - muscle pain
- Ehrlichiosis - muscle aches
- Enolase deficiency type 3 - muscle pain
- Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli Infection - Myalgias
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli - muscle aches
- Enteroviruses - muscle aches
- Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome - muscle pain
- Epidemic typhus - myalgia
- Epilepsy - muscle pain
- Erythema multiforme - muscle pain
- Excessive exercise
- Familial hematuria, autosomal dominant - retinal arteriolar tortuosity - contractures - muscle cramps
- Familial hypopituitarism - muscle cramps
- Familial hypothyroidism - muscle cramps
- Fibromyalgia - musculoskeletal pain
- Filovirus - Myalgia
- Flavivirus - Myalgias
- Flavivirus Infections - muscle pain
- Flu - muscle aches
- Gastroenteritis - muscle aches
- Generalized anxiety disorder - muscle aches
- Gitelman syndrome - muscle aches
- Glanders - muscle aches
- Glomerulonephritis - muscle pain
- Glycogen storage disease type 7 - muscle cramps
- Gnathostoma Infection - muscle pain
- Hantavirosis - muscle ache
- Hantavirus - Myalgias
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - muscle cramps
- Heat cramps - muscle cramps
- Heat exhaustion - muscle cramps
- Heatstroke - muscle cramps
- Hemorragic fever with renal syndrome - muscle pain
- Hemorrhagic fever - muscle ache
- Hepatitis - muscle aches
- Hepatitis X (non-A,-B,-C,-D,-E) - aching muscles
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency myopathy - muscle aches
- Heroin withdrawal - muscle cramps
- Histoplasmosis - myalgias
- Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis - muscle pain
- Human monocytic ehrlichiosis - muscle pain
- Human parvovirus B19 infection - myalgia
- Hydrocodone withdrawal - muscle ache
- Hyperparathyroidism - muscle aches
- Hyperparathyroidism, primary - muscle pain
- Hypoadrenalism - muscle pain
- Hypoadrenocorticism - hypoparathyroidism - moniliasis - muscle cramps
- Hypocalcemia - muscle aches
- Hypocalcemia, autosomal dominant - aching muscles
- Hypokalemic periodic paralysis - muscle cramps
- Hypomagnesemia primary - muscle pain
- Hypoparathyroidism - muscle aches
- Hypoparathyroidism familial isolated - muscle cramps
- Hypoparathyroidism X-linked - muscle cramping
- Hypophosphatemic rickets - muscle cramps
- Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia - muscle pain
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome - muscle pain
- Idiopathic myopathy - muscle pain
- Inclusion Body Myositis - muscle pain
- Infection - many infections cause muscle aches and pains.
- Infectious Diarrhea - Myalgia
- Infective myositis - muscle pain
- Insulin-resistance syndrome, type A - muscle cramps
- Intermittent claudication - usually causing calf muscle pain
- Interstitial lung disease - muscle pain
- Isaacs syndrome - muscle cramps
- Juvenile dermatomyositis - muscle pain
- Kashin-Bek disease - aching muscles
- Kyasanur-Forrest disease - muscle ache
- Lactate dehydrogenase deficiency type A - muscle cramps
- Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome - muscular pain
- Lassa fever - muscle pains
- Lead poisoning - Muscle pain
- Legionnaires' disease - muscle aches
- Leptospirosis - muscle aches
- Leukocytoclastic angiitis - systemic - muscle pain
- Limb dystonia - muscle pain
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1B - muscle pain
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C - muscle cramps
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D - muscle cramps
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2E - muscle cramps
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2F - muscle cramps
- Limbic encephalitis - neuromyotonia - hyperhidrosis - polyneuropathy - muscle cramps
- Lipid storage myopathy - muscle cramps
- Listeriosis - muscle aches
- Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency - muscle pain
- Lortab withdrawal - muscle aches
- Lyme disease - muscle aches
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis - muscle aches
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - muscle pain
- Macrophagic myofasciitis - muscle pain
- Magnesium wasting renal - muscle cramps
- Magrassi-Leonardi syndrome - muscle pain
- Malignant hyperthermia - muscle cramp
- Marburg virus - muscle pain
- Mastocytosis - muscle pain
- Mayaro fever - muscle pain
- MELAS - muscle pain
- Meningococcal disease - myalgia
- Meningococcal infection - muscle pain
- Metabolic disorders - muscle pain
- Microscopic Polyangiitis - muscle pain
- Mitochondrial diseases - Muscle cramping
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency - muscle pain
- Morgellons Disease - muscle pain
- Motor neuron diseases - muscle cramps
- Motor neuropathy - muscle cramps
- Muckle-Wells syndrome - muscle pain
- Multifocal motor neuropathy - muscle cramping
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block - muscle cramps
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 - muscle pain
- Muscle conditions - Muscle pain
- Muscle injury
- Muscle metabolism disorders
- Muscle phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency - muscle pain
- Muscle strain
- Muscular phosphorylase kinase deficiency - muscle cramps
- Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, associated with acetylcholine receptor deficiency - muscle cramps
- Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency - muscle cramps
- Myofascial pain syndromes - Muscle pain
- Myoglobinuria - muscle pain
- Myoglobinuria recurrent - muscle cramps
- Myoglobinuria, dominant form - muscle cramps
- Myopathy and diabetes mellitus - muscle pain
- Myxedema - muscle pains
- Nondystrophic myotonia - muscle pain
- Norwalk gastroenteritis - myalgia
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever - muscle pain
- Opioid withdrawal - muscle aches
- Optic neuropathy, anterior ischemic - myalgia
- Orthopedic disorders - Muscle pain
- Osteoporosis - muscle aches
- OxyContin withdrawal - muscle pain
- Perimyositis - muscle pain
- Phosphate diabetes - myalgia
- Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 deficiency - muscle pain
- Pneumococcal pneumonia - Muscle aches
- Pneumonia - muscle ache
- Pneumonia, Viral - muscle pain
- Polio - muscle pain
- Polyarteritis nodosa - muscle pain
- Polymyalgia rheumatica - muscle pain
- Polymyositis - cramps in many muscles
- Polyneuropathy - hand defect - muscle pain
- Polyneuropathy - mental retardation - acromicria - premature menopause - muscle pain
- Pontiac fever - muscle aches
- Porphyria - muscle cramps
- Post-polio syndrome - muscle pain
- Postoperative septicaemia - Myalgias
- Postpericardiotomy syndrome - muscle pain
- Poxviridae disease - muscle pain
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder - muscle aches
- Prostatitis - muscle pain
- Proximal myotonic dystrophy - muscle pain
- Psittacosis - muscle aches
- Pulmonary Anthrax - muscle aches
- Pyomyositis - muscle pain
- Q fever - muscle pain
- Rabies - aching muscles
- Rat-bite fever - muscle pain
- Ray-Peterson-Scott syndrome - muscle pain
- Relapsing fever - muscle pains
- Renal rickets - muscle cramps
- Respiratory alkalosis - muscle cramps
- Rhabditida Infections - muscle pain
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rhinovirus infection - myalgia
- Rhizomelic pseudopolyarthritis - muscle pain
- Rickettsia siberica - myalgia
- Rickettsia typhi - myalgia
- Rickettsial disease - muscle pain
- Ricketttsialpox - myalgia
- Rippling muscle disease - muscle cramps
- Rippling muscle disease, 1 - muscle cramps
- Rippling muscle disease, 2 - muscle cramps
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever - muscle pain
- Roundworm - Myalgias
- Sandfly fever - muscle pains
- Sarcoglycanopathy - muscle cramps
- SARS - muscle aches
- Schistosomiasis - muscle aches
- Scleredema adultorum - muscle pain
- Secernentea Infections - muscle pain
- See also causes of muscle cramps and muscle pain
- Sennetsu Fever - muscle ache
- Sepsis - Myalgias
- Silo unloader syndrome - muscle pain
- Sindbis fever - muscle pain
- Sjogren's Syndrome - muscle pain
- Slocumb syndrome - aching muscles
- Smallpox - muscle pain
- Spastic paraparesis - muscle cramps
- Spirochetes disease - muscle pain
- Spotted fevers - Myalgias
- Stachybotrys chartarum - muscle pain
- Staphylococcal infection - Myalgia
- Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning - muscle cramping (from vomiting/diarrhea)
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome - muscle pain
- Stiff-Person Syndrome - muscle pain
- Strain - muscle pain
- Streptococcal Infections - Myalgia
- Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome - muscle aches
- Stress - muscle pain
- Syphilis - muscle aches
- Systemic mastocytosis - muscle pain
- Tacrine toxicity - muscle cramps
- Temporal arteritis - muscle pain
- Tetanus
- Thyroid disease
- Thyroid hormone plasma membrane transport defect - muscle cramping
- Tick-borne encephalitis - aching muscles
- Timme syndrome - muscle cramps
- Toxemia - Myalgia
- Toxic Shock Syndrome - Muscle aches
- Toxocariasis - Muscle pains
- Toxoplasmosis - muscle pains
- Trichinosis - achy muscles
- Troell-Junet syndrome - muscle cramps
- Tuberculous meningitis - aching muscles
- Tularemia - muscle pain
- Type 1 diabetes - muscle cramps
- Type 2 diabetes - muscle aches
- Typhoid fever - myalgia
- Typhus - muscle aches
- Unaccustomed exertion
- Uremia - muscle cramps
- Vasculitis hypersensitivity - muscle pain
- Vasculitis, cutaneous necrotising - Myalgia
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis - sore muscles
- Vibrio - Myalgias
- Vibrio vulnificus infection - Myalgias
- Vicodin withdrawal - muscle pain
- Viral digestive infections - Myalgias
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers - muscle aches
- Viral Hepatitis - muscle aches
- Viral vasculitis not HBV and HCV - muscle pain
- Viremia - muscle pain
- Virus
- Water Intoxication - muscle cramps
- Weber-Christian disease - Myalgia
- Wegener's granulomatosis - muscle pain
- Weil's syndrome - muscle aches
- West African Trypanosomiasis - aching muscles
- West nile encephalitis - Muscle ache
- West Nile fever - Muscle ache
- Western equine encephalitis - Myalgia
- Western/Eastern/California encephalitis - Myalgia
- Worm conditions - Myalgias
- Wuchereria bancrofti - myalgia
- Yellow fever - muscle pains
- Young Simpson syndrome - Muscle cramps
- Zadik Barak Levin syndrome - Muscle cramps
Drug side effect causes of Muscle aches
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Muscle aches as a side effect.
- Certain diuretics
- Certain high blood pressure medications
- Certain cholesterol lowering medications (not uncommon)
- Neurotonin
- Nalidixic Acid
Drug interaction causes of Muscle aches:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Muscle aches.- Cholecalciferol and Aluminum Hydroxide interaction
- Phenytoin and Levothyroxine interaction
Medical Textbooks about Muscle aches (Full Online Access)
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