AnnabelleLee777

(Sorry this is so long, but I really need someone to read this. Mods, please delete anything that isn’t appropriate)

Hello everyone,

I'm Christina, and I'm 22 yrs old. I am waiting to see a doctor who specializes in chronic diseases.
It all started with being tired all the time and not wanting to do anything. That was high school. I thought I was just really depressed, and stared taking different antidepressants on and off until now (am currently not taking any.) How I can describe all these new symptoms I have been having, is that they have gotten exponentially worse since then, and have kind of peaked within the past 6 months or so, especially since the start of my new job 7 weeks ago..
I have never been able to work more than 30 hrs a week, and now I can only manage about 20-25 because of severe back and neck pain. In the past it was more because I was depressed and tired, but now it is from the pain. I always thought the pain was from my scoliosis, and so did my doctors. But about a week ago I started reading about fibromyalgia, and I had all the other symptoms too.
I had a mouth guard made for TMJ about a year ago, my jaw would be stuck in the morning and it would crack and pop all the time. Now I just have bad jaw pain most of the time without the popping.
In the past, my first year of college, I tried Mirapex for restless leg syndrome, but that med made me throw up, and I didn’t take it for more than a couple days. Now I just can’t stop moving my legs at night, even without the creepy crawly sensations I used to have. I have taken sleeping pills occasionally for insomnia also. Since the beginning of the summer, I never sleep more than a few hours a night, I just lay there and toss and turn, my back, shoulders, neck always hurting, and have almost gotten used to this lifestyle. I stay up very late, laying in bed with the TV on till about 1:30AM. I will turn it off, then I can’t sleep usually until about 7AM, then I only sleep a couple of hours. I usually deal with this by trying to take naps, and I find when I take naps I am able to fall asleep fast, but only sleep for about 1-2 hours, then am unable to sleep anymore. I am having severe lack of sleep, but somehow manage to get through the day.
I have worked at a coffee shop for about seven weeks now, and that’s when I really started to notice some kind of memory impairment, which I thought, was just from lack of sleep. I can’t seem to remember anything for more than a few seconds while on a busy or stressful shift. I have to ask people to repeat their orders; I forget what I was working on after helping a customer, etc. Stuff like that happens all the time, at home too.
I thought I had endometriosis, because I have ended up in the emergency room twice now for incredibly painful cramps, and this happens about every six months, that I have these super painful periods. I also have super heavy periods, and pass blood clots most of the time (sorry guys, TMI). I have not been diagnosed with endometriosis, because I tried going on the pill, and it made me throw up about 5 times after taking it once, and I have been nervous to talk to the doc about trying a different type/dosage.
I feel like I have eaten a basketball after every meal. I used to get really painful gas/cramps while in high school, but that has kind of gone away.
I have what feel like stress related headaches usually during the middle of my day.

I never get anything I need to get done, because I’m either in pain, depressed, or too tired, and I tell myself I’ll do it later.
The number one thing, above all else is the pain. After just a 3.5 hour shift at work, I come home in so much pain it’s unbearable, but it seems to be only in my back, shoulders and neck. I cry sometimes, and sometimes feel very hopeless and suicidal. I have been prescribed vicodin a few times throughout the past 8 months or so by going to the walk-in clinic when the pain gets unbearable. I would tell the doctors that I have scoliosis, and that’s why my back hurt so much, but now with all these other symptoms I’m not sure if it just that anymore. The doctors always agreed it was just my scoliosis, but it doesn’t seem to be muscle pain, it seems deeper than that.
I really want an opinion from someone who knows what they are talking about, besides just the doctor I am going to see soon. Can it just be a coincedence that I have all these other symptoms too? Can fibromyalgia come about slowly over a couple of years, and then peak very quickly within a couple of months?

Thank you for reading this ~Christina