tiredone
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I've spent close to thirty years back and forth and am now only starting to get answers about my on going health issues I've battled.
Among them are depression, fatigue, insomnia, hypersomnia, sleep apnea and chronic pain. My chronic pain tends to reside mostly in my left shoulder, middle back, neck and head that can range from tension to full out muscle spasms that tend to give me nasty headaches at the base of my left skull and left eye. My right shoulder, back and neck can get in on the game from time to time as well. Additionally my left arm below my shoulder (due to the neck pain) as well as my left hip tend to hurt off and on but not consistently. I also now have what appears to be plantars fibromatosis in my left foot. Pain seems to like the left side of my body.
Additionally to that I've not had many good days in 30 years. The few days that I've felt great are so infrequent, I tend to say I can count them on one hand. They are so abnormal that when I do feel really good, I begin to question what's wrong with me. Most of the time I have quite a bit of fatigue as well as can be very tired. After treatment for Sleep Apnea, my sleeping got better but my ability to wake up got worse, and I still need my afternoon naps that range from 1 to 3 hours. Weekend I tend to take 3 or 4 naps a day, same with vacations.
In addition to that, I can be sensitive to smells (I tend to smell things others can't), sensitive to noise, my ears ring almost constantly from a low ring to sometimes very loud, and I can loose concentration. Over the years that has ranged from full out feeling fogged to where I'm at today it isn't as bad. I do tend to get odd out of sync feelings in the center of my forehead and things just don't seem to click right, I can very often forget what I'm talking about mid sentence. The out of sync feelings come and go and its very hard to concentrate during them. Sometimes it seems like things are moving slightly slower, sometimes they just dont jive. When I was younger this was much more present, and there were a few years I was extremely sensitive to light (It shows up on occasion now but usually doesnt last for long). The largest issue out of all of this is the constant feeling of feeling like garbage. I'm always tired, I never feel great, but there's usually nothing to pin it on. I've gone this way since I was a teenager, and I find the older I get the harder it is to deal with getting through the day. I often count not only the work days by the number of days left in the week, but sometimes by the hour since it can become hard to fight through the day.
So give all this... I'm not sure where to turn. I'm not sure if given the more regional issues with pain if this would even sound remotely like fibromyalgia. Everything I tend to read tends to keep me coming back to here or chronic fatigue. I've had the full gambit of normal tests for fatigue and as usual, I come back as healthy despite my usual daily issues. These days between the pain, tiredness and fatigue, I manage to barely get through the day and the rest of my time is spent hardly moving, asleep, or just laying around hoping to feel a bit better.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Could it be fibromyalgia, or am I looking in the wrong direction?
Among them are depression, fatigue, insomnia, hypersomnia, sleep apnea and chronic pain. My chronic pain tends to reside mostly in my left shoulder, middle back, neck and head that can range from tension to full out muscle spasms that tend to give me nasty headaches at the base of my left skull and left eye. My right shoulder, back and neck can get in on the game from time to time as well. Additionally my left arm below my shoulder (due to the neck pain) as well as my left hip tend to hurt off and on but not consistently. I also now have what appears to be plantars fibromatosis in my left foot. Pain seems to like the left side of my body.
Additionally to that I've not had many good days in 30 years. The few days that I've felt great are so infrequent, I tend to say I can count them on one hand. They are so abnormal that when I do feel really good, I begin to question what's wrong with me. Most of the time I have quite a bit of fatigue as well as can be very tired. After treatment for Sleep Apnea, my sleeping got better but my ability to wake up got worse, and I still need my afternoon naps that range from 1 to 3 hours. Weekend I tend to take 3 or 4 naps a day, same with vacations.
In addition to that, I can be sensitive to smells (I tend to smell things others can't), sensitive to noise, my ears ring almost constantly from a low ring to sometimes very loud, and I can loose concentration. Over the years that has ranged from full out feeling fogged to where I'm at today it isn't as bad. I do tend to get odd out of sync feelings in the center of my forehead and things just don't seem to click right, I can very often forget what I'm talking about mid sentence. The out of sync feelings come and go and its very hard to concentrate during them. Sometimes it seems like things are moving slightly slower, sometimes they just dont jive. When I was younger this was much more present, and there were a few years I was extremely sensitive to light (It shows up on occasion now but usually doesnt last for long). The largest issue out of all of this is the constant feeling of feeling like garbage. I'm always tired, I never feel great, but there's usually nothing to pin it on. I've gone this way since I was a teenager, and I find the older I get the harder it is to deal with getting through the day. I often count not only the work days by the number of days left in the week, but sometimes by the hour since it can become hard to fight through the day.
So give all this... I'm not sure where to turn. I'm not sure if given the more regional issues with pain if this would even sound remotely like fibromyalgia. Everything I tend to read tends to keep me coming back to here or chronic fatigue. I've had the full gambit of normal tests for fatigue and as usual, I come back as healthy despite my usual daily issues. These days between the pain, tiredness and fatigue, I manage to barely get through the day and the rest of my time is spent hardly moving, asleep, or just laying around hoping to feel a bit better.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Could it be fibromyalgia, or am I looking in the wrong direction?