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If you know something is wrong with your body, here’s how to face the medical community with all the ammunition you need to pay attention to them. Never give up!
You should not wake up in the morning feeling like you’ve moved furniture all night. But it is for me. Each joint is stiff and sore. I lay in bed and stretch to loosen up again before I dare to try and walk. The way to the bathroom is equipped with furniture and walls, which I can use for the stability and support.
I love my pet dog, but my arm gets tired after a few minutes. It feels like there is lead in my muscles.
I’m so tired all the time. But lying is the frustrating thing I can do during the day because my legs think it is the perfect time to the track. You tighten and the only thing that relieves the tightening sensation is to move.
I have two beautiful grand-daughters that I want to play, but I can no longer hold, I’m not strong enough. All the things I loved doing, dancing, crocheting, support the coach with my youngest daughter softball team, all part of the past. My family gets annoyed with me because I can not do, what to do with them, as I once did.
After years of doctor appointments and said, “It’s all in your head, probably related to stress,” I got angry. It is not “all in my head,” the pain is just too real. How could swollen joints are “all in my head”?
My oldest daughter is a medic for the army, she knows me. I do not complain much, and she knows I would not take, except that it is real. I emailed them in Afghanistan. I told her the doctor think I’m crazy. She told me all the questions, if I felt they related or not, and sends it back to her.
I started my list, tired, irritable, depressed, restless legs, can not sleep anywhere muscle pain, joint pain and swelling, TMJ (jaw pain), headache, change in constipation to diarrhea in the drop of a hat, irritable bladder, and I feel I could fall asleep at a certain moment, if only my legs would just stop jumping. I am so very tired all the time. And I’m not crazy!
My daughter has the e-mail message to their physician friends on the base. They discussed it and gave me back a link to a website. I immediately clicked the link and began reading. I am sure that this will ever wrote, I knew. The site described me in detail. The link was at the John Hopkins Hospital, and the position at the top of the page reads; fibromyalgia. I can not even explain how it felt to have the confirmation that I was not crazy after all. I printed the page and took her into my family doctor.
He read about the symptoms and perused my giant chart. He confirmed it. Fibromyalgia. He wrote me a referral to a rheumatologist. I finally had a clue! I was so excited as a woman could be that he did not sleep days.
The rheumatologist could not see me for six weeks. I have the time to enjoy the idea that I was not crazy after all, and to learn as much as I can about fibromyalgia.
After weeks of great anticipation, I finally see this new doctor. He had the personality of a rock, he did not say much at all, and if he did it patronizing. He ran a ton of tests on my blood, confirmed the diagnosis of fibromyalgia, and wrote a lot of recipes. “I’ll see you in a month,” he said when he went out the door. I sat there for a moment alone in a vortex of confusion, until my collected recipes, and left.
I honestly felt that I knew more about my condition before I saw him, then I when I left.
They filled all the rules, a huge dent in my financial status, but I started, they all religious. I wanted them to “fix” the problem. I sleep better for the first time in a very long time. Even that was short-lived.
I answered most of my issues through library and Internet research. I did some research in each of nine different drugs I was taking every day. Over The Counter Aleve, Zoloft, Zyrtec (allergies), and carbidopa Lorezapam, to name a few. I was not impressed with the drugs when I was with the doctor.
I have a name for my illness for more than a year. And I’ve got a new doctor. He is able to answer questions and discuss with me some of the things I’ve read about on the Internet. He knows I’m not crazy. It was a long and difficult road to the knowledge I have now. The symptoms have not changed much, but it is certainly easier to treat, because I have the support of a decent doctor. I will guide you through this.
If you know without a doubt that something is wrong, do not give up. Research your condition on any of the websites such as at Johns Hopkins or WebMDS. They hold a wealth of information. Look at your suspicion and keep pushing. I know that fibromyalgia dose not have a cure, but I also know that I am not the only one who has it, and I know that there are people working diligently on a cure. Just do not give up.