I'm new here. I have many questions. I haven't definitively been diagnosed yet. EVERYTHING else is being eliminated first.
So, my first question regarding pain: Did anyone experience extraordinary pain as a child? When I was 4-5 yrs old, I would get debilitating pain in my arms and legs. I could only describe it as my bones and skin hurt. It hurt so bad I could barely walk and my skin hurt so much, even having a sheet touch me caused severe pain.
Doctors said it was 'growing pains'. But that lasted into my mid thirties. I'm now 66, I have been in pain for 15 years. Doctors said arthritis, which I'm sure is partly true. I don't have rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatosia (however it's spelled) so that pretty much leaves fibromyalgia.
So, is it possible that I have had this since I was a child?