oceanaeyes

Hello everyone im new to the group here. I was recently diagnosed
with fibromyalgia. Im 33 years old. Female in washington state.I had
had a bad virus a few years ago that had developed into a ring worm.
They said it was a parasite that lived in the lining of my stomach
muscles. I was really sick at the time throwing up sometimes over
12 times a day. I was treated with alot of antibiodies and the ring
worm also cleared up. Since then i have always been sickly.

Now im always hurting. I hurt really bad in my back,neck shoulders.
Sometimes i can feel it in my knees pretty severly. I have gone
through specialist after specialist. whenever i get lab work done I
always show way too many white blood cells. They thought i had
Fibromyalgia but the specialist they send me to did not really do
much of nothing. He looked at me and said i was too young etc. He
basically said I had to loose about 100 pounds which would put me at
80 pounds lol. I thought he was just ridiculouse. He also said i was
way to flexible. Guess im a flexible fat person then.

I asked my doctor to send me for a second opinion and am waiting.
She believes i do have fibromyalgia and i show almost all the signs
of it. I wake up and just hurt. I hurt all the time. Things i used
to take for granted like being able to walk miles at a time now i
miss. No one seems to understand. I hear "dont think about it" how
are you not suppose to when you are always in pain?

Im told to take tylenol,advil,naproxen, for now to just relieve some
of it. I was also told to learn to live with it becuase it never
really does go away. My biggest problem is that I am always
exhausted at this point. I walk my child back and forth to school
and exercise on a treadmill. I have also begun to loose weight and
am really watching what im eating.

why dont folks understand that there really is something wrong with
me. Folks say oh its no big deal people can work full time etc. I
have problems just coming down the stairs. I cant sit or stand for
too long and have restless nights trying to get comfortable enough
to sleep. I hate when folks tell me its all in my head. I say no It
seems to be in my bones. They simply hurt. Its not my fault im
too "young" to be sick. How do you guys handle the pain>?

Oceana