Can schizophrenia cause physical pain in body in areas like hips and lower torso?

My mom is diagnosed with schizophrenia. It has been 3 years now. She has stopped taking her anti psychotic medications a year ago, complaining that it makes her dizzy and sleepy all the time. Since then, she is normal most of the times and once a week, she have psychotic episodes (hallucination that our neighbour is trying to kill her by kidnapping her soul and what not :frowning: ).

Lately, she keeps complaining that she have pain in her hip joint and lower torso (spine) area. She is unable to walk properly. She takes support of walls to walk inside the house. However doctor did x-ray and checked her and told that there is no physical evidence of any pain. Everything is normal.
Is this pain because she has stopped her anti psychotic medicine? Can schizophrenic mind cause body to feel physical pain when in reality there is no physical injury?

I’ve never heard of this happening or have never experienced it

I have experienced this. For a long time I thought I had RA. Nothing ended up being wrong with me.

@schizopain I’d like to encourage you to join our forum for Family and Caregivers that can be found at:

While this forum is for people with schizophrenia and other closely related psychotic disorders, the Family forum is specifically for people like yourself, who have a loved one they are concerned about.

Also, please let your loved one know about this forum as they may find it helpful.

Best of luck,

Moonbeam

Is the pain ok now? or do you still feel the pain? How frequent was the pain - once in a while, or always ?? :neutral_face:

Thankyou for guiding me. I’ll move to other forum.

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It quit once I realized it wasn’t anything wrong.

Never heard of it. Could be many other things. Keep looking into it. Maybe arthritis or something.