Almost two months ago, my wrists started hurting. In another two weeks, all my joints were hurting. Sometimes it was so bad I couldn't concentrate at work, or enough to do just about anything else. I went to see my regular doctor, and I was tested for just about everything under the sun. All negative. Heck, even my cholesterols are all good. She gave me an anti-inflammatory and told me to take that every day for a month, and then come see her again to follow up. After a week, I was calling to see what I could take for the pain, as I couldn't take NSAIDs with the medication she gave me. (I have suffered from Migraines since I was a teenager so Tylenol does nothing for me.) Her and her nurse wouldn’t even tell me what else I could take.
I made an appointment with a Rheumatologist, and they got me in the next day. After looking at all the tests already done, and doing an exam, he said it was Fibromyalgia. He told me that although it seems like I am always under a lot of stress, and I seem to usually handle it very well; the recent added stress is likely the cause for the onset of the Fibromyalgia. Right around the time my wrists started hurting, things at work got a lot more stressful then they had been before. He prescribed Nortriptyline at bed time, and said it will be important to get lots of rest, and try to relieve stress and tension.
A week later, the pain changed. It wasn’t just in my joints, it felt like I over worked my muscles, and my right leg hurt from by butt to my ankle. It was very different than the ache of my joints. When I called the doctor’s office, she just sent me a note in mychart that said “This is another symptom of Fibromyalgia, keep taking the prescription that the rheumatologist gave you and follow up with me in a month.”
I have to say I am having a hard time digesting all this still. For someone that very rarely gets sick, has great cholesterol levels, and envious bone density; now I hurt to some degree, all the time, I am having digestive issues and am no longer regular, the number of my migraines seem to be increasing, and the intensity of them is worse than ever before as well. At times, I can’t think as clearly as before either.
I kept wondering if it wasn’t something more, but today I decided to search for forums. I found this site, and all of you. I think it is finally setting in that everything going on is the Fibro, but it doesn’t make it much easier right now. But I do feel better knowing that I am not alone, and I have a place to come and find support.
Sorry for being so lengthy, but if feels good to get it out. Thank you for reading.
I made an appointment with a Rheumatologist, and they got me in the next day. After looking at all the tests already done, and doing an exam, he said it was Fibromyalgia. He told me that although it seems like I am always under a lot of stress, and I seem to usually handle it very well; the recent added stress is likely the cause for the onset of the Fibromyalgia. Right around the time my wrists started hurting, things at work got a lot more stressful then they had been before. He prescribed Nortriptyline at bed time, and said it will be important to get lots of rest, and try to relieve stress and tension.
A week later, the pain changed. It wasn’t just in my joints, it felt like I over worked my muscles, and my right leg hurt from by butt to my ankle. It was very different than the ache of my joints. When I called the doctor’s office, she just sent me a note in mychart that said “This is another symptom of Fibromyalgia, keep taking the prescription that the rheumatologist gave you and follow up with me in a month.”
I have to say I am having a hard time digesting all this still. For someone that very rarely gets sick, has great cholesterol levels, and envious bone density; now I hurt to some degree, all the time, I am having digestive issues and am no longer regular, the number of my migraines seem to be increasing, and the intensity of them is worse than ever before as well. At times, I can’t think as clearly as before either.
I kept wondering if it wasn’t something more, but today I decided to search for forums. I found this site, and all of you. I think it is finally setting in that everything going on is the Fibro, but it doesn’t make it much easier right now. But I do feel better knowing that I am not alone, and I have a place to come and find support.
Sorry for being so lengthy, but if feels good to get it out. Thank you for reading.