Hi folks...new here...may have CFS and Fibro.

As I have said in the Fibro forum, I have been suffering with the following symptoms for the past 22 years: 

 widespread pain (migrates around my body)
 nausea (sometimes)
 dizziness (sometimes)
 itchy skin (sometimes)
 myofascial pain (joints, extremities, deep muscular ache)
 persistent muscle pain
 sore throat, bit of pain when swallowing.
 Chills and night sweats
 extremely sensitive (including arthritis pain) to weather changes
 morning fatigue/stiffness
 chronic headaches
 sensitivity to paint, strong cologne/perfume and other airborne chemical irritants
 muscle tics/facial tic
 overwhelming fatigue
 Fibro-fog (brain fog) (cognitive dysfunction/memory impairment – the "I can't think" syndrome) including memory or impaired concentration
 Sometimes my vision goes blurry on me when I'm feeling tired and dizzy, but I have 20/10 vision in one eye, 20/20 in the other, sensitivity to light, dry eyes)
 Post-exertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours (exhaustion and increased symptoms)
 Un-refreshing sleep (trying to figure that one out with oxymetrics and perhaps further testing based on the results)

After 22 years of gritting my teeth and just doing what I had to do, this last time I had to do a move in 24 hours, I ended up collapsed on my bed after the move for the next two weeks unable to do much of anything. 

My family physician thinks that it might be Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Fibromyalgia, but we're going after more tests to make absolutely certain of the diagnosis. 

My doctor is my family physician who is really concerned about these symptoms. For the longest time (from the time I was 15 to the time I was 28) I just believed that I was just being lazy because that was drummed into me by my parents from the time I recovered from measles. I just gritted my teeth and "lived with it", but it's getting to the point where I "can't live with it" any longer and "I need to know" one way or the other. The joint-pain is tolerable, but what isn't tolerable is the chronic feeling of having a "25 pound sandbag" riding on my neck and shoulders and feeling unable to shake that feeling off at all, no matter how much sleep I get.

Even now, as I'm typing this, I have to take a certain number of breaks to re-collect my thoughts and get them down in any form of coherent order which is starting to take a toll on my studies (I went back to school at the age of 36 and decided to take web-design).

I have been to a pain clinic, rhemetologist, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and family physician. None of them worked except for my family physician. I hope your family physician can help you. I usually bring in articles and possible medications that I would like to be on and she reads them and then calls me later or skims through them when I am in the doctors office. I think a lot of doc's don't know much about fibro and that is why I bring in articles to my doc. I have to educate her!!

Hope you feel better soon.