Kham1216
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Hi everybody. Like the title says, I can't afford doctors and I don't qualify for medical help so I'm really trying to self diagnose just so I can put a name to my pain and feel a little better. I hate the not knowing and I wouldn't want to take any medications anyways so it's not important to me to have an official diagnosis.
I've been having what I think are flare ups every 3-4 months and I started googling my symptoms this week and I keep coming up with fibromyalgia. I'm hoping maybe somebody can tell me if this is what they experience?
It starts with waking up to random patches of very sensitive painful skin on the back of my thigh on my right leg only. Then I'll have pain in that entire leg/foot for a few days before it all goes away. Right now, I am currently dealing with pretty bad pain on the top of my right foot along with 3 stiff painful toes and the sensitive skin on the back on my thigh.
What's also weird is the sensitive skin pain goes up to my groin but only on the right side. I thought I was coming down with an UTI due to burning while urinating but as I was looking up symptoms I saw that bladder issues like I described can also be a symptom of fibro. I feel very disoriented today. I can't put any thoughts together and I'm having a horrible time trying to write this post as I just can't think right now.
I also have major sensitivity to sunlight so being outdoors on a sunny day is excruciating. I have very bad lower back pain during my periods and I occassionally have pain in my butt cheeks but I assumed that was some kind of nerve thing.
I have major anxiety and panic attacks. Most nights as I'm falling asleep it seems like I choke or quit breathing and I wake up freaking out. I think this would be called a "sleep start"? I've had chronic fatigue for years so I've learned to deal with that and never really assumed it was a symptom of anything else.
Also, I'm not sure this is related to anything but it seems like weeks before I have a "flare up" in my leg, my elbows break out with small red bumps that are hard and very itchy and extremely painful if I accidentally bump them on anything.
I clench my jaw badly at night. I wake up in the mornings with a sore jaw from having it clamped so tightly while I'm sleeping.
I have so many of the fibro symptoms, the only thing I'm curious about is does anybody else have fibro but only have one area that is affected by pain? This is my right leg/foot/groin only except during my menstrual cycle when I get the horrible lower back pain. Sometimes I also have a deep ache in my right shoulder. I've never had the pain elsewhere. I have many of the other symptoms that continue daily/year round but the pain only comes on a few times a year and only in my right leg.
Thanks so much for any responses I get, I really need to find the answer.
I've been having what I think are flare ups every 3-4 months and I started googling my symptoms this week and I keep coming up with fibromyalgia. I'm hoping maybe somebody can tell me if this is what they experience?
It starts with waking up to random patches of very sensitive painful skin on the back of my thigh on my right leg only. Then I'll have pain in that entire leg/foot for a few days before it all goes away. Right now, I am currently dealing with pretty bad pain on the top of my right foot along with 3 stiff painful toes and the sensitive skin on the back on my thigh.
What's also weird is the sensitive skin pain goes up to my groin but only on the right side. I thought I was coming down with an UTI due to burning while urinating but as I was looking up symptoms I saw that bladder issues like I described can also be a symptom of fibro. I feel very disoriented today. I can't put any thoughts together and I'm having a horrible time trying to write this post as I just can't think right now.
I also have major sensitivity to sunlight so being outdoors on a sunny day is excruciating. I have very bad lower back pain during my periods and I occassionally have pain in my butt cheeks but I assumed that was some kind of nerve thing.
I have major anxiety and panic attacks. Most nights as I'm falling asleep it seems like I choke or quit breathing and I wake up freaking out. I think this would be called a "sleep start"? I've had chronic fatigue for years so I've learned to deal with that and never really assumed it was a symptom of anything else.
Also, I'm not sure this is related to anything but it seems like weeks before I have a "flare up" in my leg, my elbows break out with small red bumps that are hard and very itchy and extremely painful if I accidentally bump them on anything.
I clench my jaw badly at night. I wake up in the mornings with a sore jaw from having it clamped so tightly while I'm sleeping.
I have so many of the fibro symptoms, the only thing I'm curious about is does anybody else have fibro but only have one area that is affected by pain? This is my right leg/foot/groin only except during my menstrual cycle when I get the horrible lower back pain. Sometimes I also have a deep ache in my right shoulder. I've never had the pain elsewhere. I have many of the other symptoms that continue daily/year round but the pain only comes on a few times a year and only in my right leg.
Thanks so much for any responses I get, I really need to find the answer.