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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.

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.

A

  • 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, muscle cramp
  • 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, myalgia
  • 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, muscle pain
  • Arachnidism ... muscle pain
  • Arbovirosis ... aching muscles
  • Argentinean hemorrhagic fever ... muscle pain
  • Arteriosclerosis Obliterans ... muscle pain
  • Ativan withdrawal ... muscle cramps

    B

  • Babesiosis ... muscle pain, Myalgia
  • Bacterial meningitis ... aching muscles
  • Barmah Forest virus ... muscle aches
  • Bartonellosis due to Bartonella quintana infection ... muscle pain, myalgia
  • 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

    C

  • Calcification of basal ganglia with or without hypocalcemia ... muscle cramping
  • Carbon monoxide poisoning ... severe muscle pains
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency ... aching muscles, muscle pain
  • Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency ... aching muscles, muscle pain
  • 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, muscle pain
  • 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
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2 ... muscle pain
  • Childhood hypophosphatasia ... muscle pain
  • Cholera ... muscle cramps
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ... Muscle aches, muscle aches after exertion, muscle pain, muscle pain, muscle pain
  • Chronic Hepatitis C ... muscle pain
  • Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy ... aching muscle pain
  • Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders ... muscle pain
  • Ciguatera poisoning ... muscle aches, muscle pain
  • Cocaine abuse ... sore muscles
  • Cocaine withdrawal ... muscle pain
  • Coccidioidomycosis ... myalgias, myalgia
  • Codeine withdrawal ... muscle pain
  • Crack withdrawal ... muscle pain
  • Cramp ... Muscle Pain
  • Cramp-fasciculations syndrome ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Crush injury ... Muscle pain
  • Cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis ... muscle pain
  • Cyclosporiasis ... muscle aches, aching muscles
  • Cyclosporiosis ... aching muscles
  • Cytosine arabinose syndrome ... muscle pain

    D

  • Dana syndrome ... muscle pain
  • Dehydration ... muscle cramps
  • Delayed Viral Syndromes ... Myalgia
  • Dengue fever ... muscle aches, muscle pains
  • Depression ... muscle aches
  • Depressive disorders ... muscle aches
  • Dermatomyositis ... muscles ache, muscle pain
  • Diabetes ... muscle aches, 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

    E

  • 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, myalgia
  • 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

    F

  • Familial hematuria, autosomal dominant - retinal arteriolar tortuosity - contractures ... muscle cramps
  • Familial hypopituitarism ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Familial hypothyroidism ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Fibromyalgia ... musculoskeletal pain, muscle pain
  • Filovirus ... Myalgia
  • Flavivirus ... Myalgias
  • Flavivirus Infections ... muscle pain
  • Flu ... muscle aches, myalgia

    G

  • Gastroenteritis ... muscle aches
  • Generalized anxiety disorder ... muscle aches
  • Gitelman syndrome ... muscle aches, muscle cramps
  • Glanders ... muscle aches
  • Glomerulonephritis ... muscle pain
  • Glycogen storage disease type 7 ... muscle cramps
  • Gnathostoma Infection ... muscle pain

    H

  • Hantavirosis ... muscle ache, myalgia
  • Hantavirus ... Myalgias, muscle ache
  • Hashimoto's Thyroiditis ... muscle cramps
  • Heat cramps ... muscle cramps, muscle pains
  • 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, muscle cramps
  • 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, muscle cramps
  • Hypoparathyroidism familial isolated ... muscle cramps
  • Hypoparathyroidism X-linked ... muscle cramping
  • Hypophosphatemic rickets ... muscle cramps, muscle pain

    I

  • Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia ... muscle pain
  • Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome ... muscle pain
  • Idiopathic myopathy ... muscle pain
  • Inclusion Body Myositis ... muscle pain
  • Infectious Diarrhea ... Myalgia
  • Infective myositis ... muscle pain
  • Insulin-resistance syndrome, type A ... muscle cramps
  • Interstitial lung disease ... muscle pain
  • Isaacs syndrome ... muscle cramps

    J

  • Juvenile dermatomyositis ... muscle pain

    K

  • Kashin-Bek disease ... aching muscles
  • Kyasanur-Forrest disease ... muscle ache

    L

  • 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, aching muscles, muscle pain
  • 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, muscle pain
  • Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2E ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2F ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Limbic encephalitis - neuromyotonia - hyperhidrosis - polyneuropathy ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • 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

    M

  • Macrophagic myofasciitis ... muscle pain
  • Magrassi-Leonardi syndrome ... muscle pain
  • Malignant hyperthermia ... muscle cramp
  • Marburg virus ... muscle pain, myalgia
  • Mastocytosis ... muscle pain
  • Mayaro fever ... muscle pain
  • MELAS ... muscle pain
  • Meningococcal disease ... myalgia
  • Meningococcal infection ... muscle pain
  • Metabolic disorders ... muscle pain, muscle cramping
  • 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 phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency ... muscle pain
  • Muscular phosphorylase kinase deficiency ... muscle cramps
  • Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, associated with acetylcholine receptor deficiency ... muscle cramps
  • Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency ... muscle cramps, muscle pain, myalgia
  • Myofascial pain syndromes ... Muscle pain
  • Myoglobinuria ... muscle pain
  • Myoglobinuria recurrent ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Myoglobinuria, dominant form ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Myopathy and diabetes mellitus ... muscle pain
  • Myxedema ... muscle pains

    N

  • Nondystrophic myotonia ... muscle pain
  • Norwalk gastroenteritis ... myalgia

    O

  • 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

    P

  • 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, muscle pains
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica ... muscle pain
  • 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, muscle pain
  • Prostatitis ... muscle pain
  • Proximal myotonic dystrophy ... muscle pain
  • Psittacosis ... muscle aches
  • Pulmonary Anthrax ... muscle aches
  • Pyomyositis ... muscle pain

    Q

  • Q fever ... muscle pain, myalgia, muscle pains

    R

  • 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
  • Rhinovirus infection ... myalgia
  • Rhizomelic pseudopolyarthritis ... muscle pain
  • Rickettsia siberica ... myalgia
  • Rickettsia typhi ... myalgia
  • Rickettsial disease ... muscle pain, myalgia
  • Ricketttsialpox ... myalgia
  • Rippling muscle disease ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Rippling muscle disease, 1 ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Rippling muscle disease, 2 ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever ... muscle pain
  • Roundworm ... Myalgias

    S

  • Sandfly fever ... muscle pains
  • Sarcoglycanopathy ... muscle cramps, muscle pain
  • SARS ... muscle aches
  • Schistosomiasis ... muscle aches
  • Scleredema adultorum ... muscle pain
  • Secernentea Infections ... 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, muscle ache
  • Staphylococcal infection ... Myalgia
  • Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ... muscle pain
  • Stiff-Person Syndrome ... muscle pain
  • Strain ... muscle pain, muscle cramping
  • Streptococcal Infections ... Myalgia
  • Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome ... muscle aches
  • Stress ... muscle pain
  • Syphilis ... muscle aches
  • Systemic mastocytosis ... muscle pain

    T

  • Tacrine toxicity ... muscle cramps
  • Temporal arteritis ... muscle pain
  • 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, muscle pain
  • Troell-Junet syndrome ... muscle cramps
  • Tuberculous meningitis ... aching muscles
  • Tularemia ... muscle pain
  • Type 1 diabetes ... muscle cramps
  • Type 2 diabetes ... muscle aches, muscle cramps
  • Typhoid fever ... myalgia
  • Typhus ... muscle aches

    U

  • Uremia ... muscle cramps

    V

  • 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, Myalgia
  • Viral Hepatitis ... muscle aches
  • Viral vasculitis not HBV and HCV ... muscle pain
  • Viremia ... muscle pain

    W

  • Water Intoxication ... muscle cramps
  • Weber-Christian disease ... Myalgia
  • Wegener's granulomatosis ... muscle pain
  • Weil's syndrome ... muscle aches, Myalgia
  • West African Trypanosomiasis ... aching muscles
  • West nile encephalitis ... Muscle ache, Myalgia
  • West Nile fever ... Muscle ache, Myalgia
  • Western equine encephalitis ... Myalgia
  • Western/Eastern/California encephalitis ... Myalgia
  • Worm conditions ... Myalgias
  • Wuchereria bancrofti ... myalgia

    Y

  • Yellow fever ... muscle pains
  • Young Simpson syndrome ... Muscle cramps

    Z

  • Zadik Barak Levin syndrome ... Muscle cramps

    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.

    L

  • Lead poisoning ... Muscle pain
  • Lyme disease ... muscle aches

    M

  • Magnesium wasting renal ... muscle cramps

    S

  • Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning ... muscle cramping (from vomiting/diarrhea)

    More Information About Muscle aches

    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.

    Drug side effect causes of Muscle aches

    The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Muscle aches as a side effect.

    [See detailed list of 218 drug side effect causes of Muscle aches]

    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
    [See detailed list of 2 drug interaction causes of Muscle aches]

    Medical Textbooks about Muscle aches (Full Online Access)

    Free online access without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Muscle aches. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Muscle aches (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).

    • "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms"
    • "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms"
    • "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)"
    • "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis"
    • "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)"
    • "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses"
    • "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms"

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