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I feel for you and your pain. However, please do NOT be so quick to discredit your doctors. The symptoms you describe herein, MIRROR TO A Tee the symptoms I experience (and have since my mid teens). For YEARS (unil I was 39 years old and I am currently 42), NO ONE could diagnois me. No doctor could put a name to the absolute ALL OVER body pain, depression, loss of not only flexibility but balance and coordination, chronic fatigue that I suffered everyday. The pain has also been the worst in my muscles (any muscle).  Something as simple and innocent as someone taking their index finger and poking me (say to get my attention or point at something the were trying to get my attention focused on?) on my upper arm would (and still to this day WILL) send me to MY KNEES in so much pain my world completely would SPIN and I would cry uncontrollably for hours on end as shockwave after shockwave of this pain rippped/rips through my muscles.  The simplest things like GETTING OUT OF BED, on some days almost take an act of God Himself for me to accomplish.  At the age I mentioned above, I had had ENOUGH of the medical professionals not being able to help me ease the pain. Had enough with them not even knowing what was causing this pain. And BEYOND had enough of them basically thinking everything I was "complaining of" was ALL IN MY  HEAD.  I went online and researched until my eyes could not focus anymore. But the minute I came across Fibromyalgia, I KNEW WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT... WITHOUT A SINGLE QUESTION IN MY MIND, that was what I HAD, and what I had been suffering from since the age of almost 16. I printed out everything I could find, and I took it to my PRIMARY DOCTOR (who is a wonderful, caring lady, who had always sent me to specialists and tried to help figure out what this was I suffered from and never once doubted this pain was ... not only more than REAL, that is was  completely DEBILITATING me from living my life). She had heard of Fibro, but never read on it indepth .  She made me an appt in a few weeks, as she wanted to research and that she did. By that 2 weeks end, she had performed the most simple of tests that  just involves poking X amount of key PRESSURE POINTS on a body. She wrote down and listened for HOURS every symptom, pain, ache, etc I told her I experience.  And she then diagnoised me with what I had no doubt ... I HAD. Fibro. Please do not think they are full of it.  It is NOT a "made up disease". It is NOT because those of us suffering are LAZY or NUTS. It is because each day we must live with an all over BODY PAIN (from your mind, which suffers liasions from this disease, affecting not only your moods: but your balance), to things you never had any CLUE COULD ACTUALLY  HURT (such as FINGERNAILS), but DO. Some days the pains are so overwhelming as you mentioned, getting out of bed is as big of a challenge as asking you to run the NY marathon never having trained. Showering is a major cause of complete anxiety. Anticipating the pain you know you will experience when you continually drop soap and razors and shampoo etc, because the nerve endings in your hands are just about completely SHOT. I break out in a sweat hon, everytime I have to manage to bend from my waist to get those things simply so I can be CLEAN. And the total energy you expend trying to just go about a daily life, leaves a person with fibro so fatigued and tired, it is not soon before life altering depression takes over. The lack of sleep adds on to the pain, and the saddness felt at having to deal with feeling 150 when you are only 42 (or even 28), zaps more out of someone than I can tell.  If any of this sounds familar to you, I beg of you, listen to the doctors. Get a second or even third opinion!  In so many cases, Firbo and MS "MIRROR" each other almost to a T. Read up on both hon. Seriously be open to reading the stories of others like myself, and allow yourself to honestly evaluate .. is the things being described by Fibro suffers something that strikes a cord with you and makes you shake your head... YES. Yes that is how it is?? Because if so, please believe me.... nothing will change the fact you have Fibro if you do. But there are things to help.. the biggest is reaching out and reading, and knowing. You are not a hypocondriac, you are not a NUTJOB.  You are someone (like tens of thousands of men. . YES MEN, women, and CHILDREN .. yes even children!), who suffers from a life altering thing called Fibro.  The best "antidote" in the world for me, was finding comfort and support from those who understood the pain I live with everyday, that no one in my everyday circles, to this day, can seem to grasp. My hopes and prayers are with you that whatever it is Michelle, you are able to find out and get help.  I just implore you, be open to researching this disease with an open mind and open heart.  Everything you have described, hit home like a ton of bricks with me.  Peace and Love, Carrie