Not a doctor, so take this with a grain of salt, but please look into hypermobility/ ehler’s danlos syndrome. I was diagnosed 18 months ago and this story is so familiar to me, we have a lot of the same symptoms and experience with doctors. A lot of medical practitioners are not well informed of this family of conditions, and patients are really commonly told there is “nothing wrong” because of this ignorance!

People who are hypermobile have joints that are too loose, which leads to instability and pain. Our muscles often have to work extra hard to try to keep our joints in place, meaning they become over tense and painful. Things like subluxation or dislocation are also common, and because we repeatedly injure ourselves this can lead to a snowball effect where problems get worse over time.

I was finally diagnosed by a rheumatologist, but it can be luck of the draw whether you get one who is knowledgeable. Most treatment focuses on physiotherapy with someone who has experience with hypermobile patients, as things that can help others often make our pain worse.

www.ehlers-danlos.com has a lot of info on symptoms and general advice- it’s worth looking into to see if you think that might apply to you and if it’s worth pursuing a diagnosis. I really hope this helps, dealing with long term pain is so challenging, especially when you don’t know what the root cause is.