Advice please!!!!

Hi my name is Emma I'm 25 years old I'm tired of waiting for doctors and different test to be done to get some form of help so thought maybe by coming on here I might get some answers. about 5 years ago or around that I started getting pain in my left shoulder coming once or twice a year leaving me off work for about two weeks, I've always been one to have cramps in my legs or somewhere else on my body. When my shoulder is better after a few weeks it is stiff but the pain has mainly gone this problem continued and constant doctor visits did nothing. Life goes on then about 3 years ago I started having a stimuli at problem in my left knee also my should problem worsened, lasting longer more painful and moving to my right shoulder as well. After years I finally had some x rays and physio which did nothing to stop it or relieve any off the pain and x rays didn't really show anything. My problem is always worse and the weather gets cold at the end of October this year I could feel my shoulder starting to flare up again after two weeks off work it then decided to spread to my right shoulder with the same level off pain and stiffness leaving me signed off for another week I've been to doctors every week looking for some form if help and just now have be referred to a shoulder specialist and for blood tests however in the mean time in stuck with two arms that I can not use unless I'm ok with being in agony unable to really dress myself, sleep, work or even tie up my daughters hair I also since this flare up have been having cramps in my bum that's spreads down the leg and to the knee and other to the other leg so after all my rabbiting on I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on what might be causing all off this and whether it could be something like fibro or something else I'm just at the end of my rope and getting to the point where I feel it's all on my head as it just seems to ache or hurt everywhere I feel like a 80 year old woman not 25 year old and advice would be appreciated thank you xx

Have you had your vitamin D level checked. Most people are deficient in vitamin D and it is very important for you health. Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin and we get it from the sun. If you are experiencing more pain in the winter time you do not get it is the winter time. Get your vitamin D level checked and take appropriate steps to get you level up. Here is an article explaining vitamin D.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027345_Vitamin_D_exposure_sun.html

Hi Ema:

Welcome. I am sorry to read that you have many health challenges at a very young age.

Your Doctors will be trying to rule in or out, anything that can be detected in various tests and x-rays. X-rays do not pick up everything. Sometimes a CT Scan is done or an MRI but it is up to your Doctor to decide. The Shoulder Specialist is a good start.

I don't get cramps like you are having. My biggest problem is head and neck pain. I knew all along that my problems inside impacted all the way down to my collarbone. I only have a handful of days where the pain lets up and I could live with that much pain only. I have no idea why or how I get these better days.

I do soak in the tub sometimes. Epsom salts might help you. I do stretches in the shower. You should try to gently move until you know what exactly you are inflicted with. I always suggest that people ask there Doctors before beginning a new exercise.

For me I use heat on my neck and often I use ice on my head. Ice is good for swelling or when you first get injured. If you had arthritis, ice will numb the arthritic joint. Heat will attract blood to the area. I use pain creams. I have had muscles go out on me. My lower back is notorious. I use pain cream and do gentle exercise that was taught by my various Physiotherapists. It takes a week or more to get back. When the pain stops I can move better. I always have headaches, they never go away.

You may have Fibromyalgia but I am not a Doctor. You can have it along with other problems, like me.

I really don't know what you could do for cramps, perhaps others will help.

Loring

Osteoarthritis in Multiple Joints, Fibromyalgia, Neuralgia, Chronic Daily Headaches, I.B., Hard of Hearing...

Hi, Emma, and welcome! It is so frustrating when you hurt and don't know why so you can help yourself. I hope you can see a board certified rheumatologist and get a thorough work up. You could have fibro...sounds very familiar...but you need to have other illnesses ruled out that have many of the same symptoms. There isn't a good test for fibro.

Also, a new member has stated in several posts that fibro usually is undiagnosed hypothyroidism. This really isn't accurate. It could be a possibility but the vast majority of us are having nerve pain and doctors studying this illness think it's a neurological problem.

I had terrible pain in one of my shoulders and couldn't raise my arm past my shoulder and couldn't put my arm behind my back. It's called a frozen shoulder. If I reached for something I would get a tremendous shooting pain in my arm and it would go weak. I fixed that myself by using trigger point therapy on myself. You find the trigger points and then massage them away. I bought The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook on Amazon and it shows where to find the trigger points for the type of pain you are experiencing. For my shoulder, the trigger points (they feel like really sensitive areas) were in my chest from my sternum going up to my shoulder, also right behind the top of my shoulder, and lastly in my neck. So start pressing in those areas and see if you feel really sensitive spots.

Be sure to read Fibro 101... The first thread on the forum. There are links to good info about fibro and you will learn a lot there. Good starting links for you would be Symptoms, What Else Could It Be, and A Thorough Explanation of Fibromyalgia. You just might see yourself there. All of Fibro 101 is good so do read it

I'm looking forward to getting to know you better. Don't hesitate to ask questions because we are here to help you. Hope to hear more from you soon.

Sherrine

Hello everybody thank you for your replays I appreciate it very much I've been trying to read up as much as I can but it's so hard to pin point what it could be as it seems to fall into a few different categories and I think that's what the doctors struggle with. Little up date I went to the doctors again yesterday as sleeping was becoming none existent and been prescribed a higher dose of pain relief, I just find no matter what they give me it just does not go away but I need something as can not afford any more time off work this close to Christmas. This doctor I saw yesterday ( always seems to be a different one each week) has added more blood tests which I'm happy about as surely more chance of some sort of answers and she also thinks it might be some form of arthritis and the pain in my right arm is because I've been using it more to rest my left which makes no sense to me as I'm right handed so surely I use my right more anyway, but who know hopefully I will one day. To describe the pain more it started in my left shoulder and the upper part of my arm restricted movement especially moving arm backwards like reaching into my coat pockets are impossible, then it seemsed to spread over the back of my neck to my right shoulder feels like the exact same problem. Best way to describe it I guess would be I feel like I've just done weights of the Olympics and every muscle in my upper arms is screaming at me for it, I also get a full throbbing ache at random times. Anywho enought rabbiting on I'm just learning to try live like this and do all the normal things without being drugged off my head lol I appreciate all ur comments and hope all of u r well or as well as can be and I guess I'm just sat in a waiting game but hopefully will find a end soon as blood tests and MRI is on the horizon thank you all xxxx