I'm new here and think I may have fibromyalgia... what do I do now? - Fibromyalgia Message Board

4kids4me · 02-08-2009, 06:59 PM

Well, let me start by saying I am so glad to have found this. I've read alot already and it seems that there are more people out there that have the same sort of symptoms as I do, and that is reassuring to me, that I am not dying LOL. Ok, so here's what my symptoms are

1. Pain in my muscles, and full body aching feeling like a flu for approximately 2 years now.

2. Chronic headaches and migraines (1-2 per week for migraines, nearly every day for headaches)

3. Fatigue that is so severe that I'm not functioning at a normal level at all (my house is becoming a bigger disaster by the day)

4. Insomnia for over a year. I wake up repetedly in the night, and in the morning I don't feel like I've slept at all.

5. Morning stiffness. It can take me hours in the morning to get mobile, which is especially hard since I've got 4 kids.

6. Extreme sensitivity to cold temperatures. It's painful to go outside if I'm not completely covered from head to toe. My poor kids and husband, I keep the house in the winter at a balmy 80 degrees.

7. My eyes are extremely light sensitive, so I avoid the sun and keep my blinds drawn in my house so it's not too bright in the house.

8. Chronic constipation. I don't thing I need to go into that LOL.

9. Having more and more trouble concentrating on what I need to. I blankly stare into the nothing until my brain starts working again. It's like a short circuit that lasts for 1-3 minutes sometimes.

10. Irritability that cannot be explained. Sometimes it's anxiety, but nothing has provoked it. Just random irritability and anxiety that is focused on nothing.

I'm not sure that fibromyalgia is the answer, but I cannot continue to live like this without some kind of relief. I'm frustrated and I'm tired and I'm in pain and I don't really know what to do next. Do I just walk into my doctor and say "hey, I think I've got fibromyalgia, can you test me?". What do I say? I feel like I'm trapped inside my own body and everyone thinks I'm crazy. What do I do now?

Thanks for any input,
Christi
(4kids4me)

Glojer · 02-08-2009, 07:15 PM

4kids, sounds like a lot of the complaints of fibro to me. You may have some overlap problems, which many of us do. The fatigue could be from thyroid problems and any gastro problems could be IBS which many of us have. You have mentioned almost all the major problems of fibro. I'm sure you will get a lot of others popping in to give you their opinions. By the way welcome to the board.

Glojer

djl · 02-08-2009, 08:26 PM

Hi 4kids...and welcome.

Im knew to this thing too. Just DX in late Dec. I wasnt real sure about this disease, I meam I have heard of it but wasnt realy sure ehat it was all about. My GP diagnosed me.

Have you discussed what your symptoms are with a doctor??

MaMa24Bellz · 02-19-2009, 05:05 PM

OMG reading your post I feel like I could have written that myself. I know exactly how you feel, I told my husband last night that maybe I have a mental disorder because all my test have come back fine. But there is still something. I feel like I have this feeling that they are missing something and they won't catch it and I am gonna die. I myself have 4 kids so that thought kills me. I just want to get back to my old self again. I'm sure you understand that!! Please write back when you have found something. I could use all the help.

4kids4me · 02-19-2009, 06:30 PM

Well, as of February 9th I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. My doctor did the tender point/ trigger point test and I had 12 of the 18 of them and he said I had fibromyalgia. I would suggest to your doctor that you think you might have this problem and even maybe ask him to do the test, and if he won't, go to another doctor. I hope that things get better for you, and hoping things get better for me too now that I'm on a whole bunch of meds........