Do I have Fibromyalgia? help!

Hi. I'm 29, female, did gymnastics 15 yrs ago. Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis at 21. I have three children. After the birth of my now 4 year old daughter, I started experiencing a weird issue with a spot almost on my bum closer to my back. It was like a pinching when i tried to walk, or get up from a sitting, squatting, or bent over position. If i didn't rest it the pain would gradually spread down my thigh to my knee. Sometimes it would get so bad I couldn't walk. Oddly enough this seemed to happen for no reason. And went away just like that. Could last a few hrs, or a few days. Happens to either side, but never at the same time. then the pain started happening more towards the outside of my buttocks, almost at my hip. Again without warning, either side, unpredictable to how long it would last. So i went to the Dr. Had 12 films of x-rays done up my back and a CAT Scan. Nothing showed up. Blood work. Nothing showed up. I walk with a friggin limp most of the time how can nothing be wrong? Then the pain starts showing up in my neck. Basically behind either ear, just below the skull. Can't turn my head. So I go to the dr. this time for a muscle relaxer or something! He gives me cymbalta but says back n neck pain are normal we treat symptoms.

ok. So cymbalta makes me high as hell so i stop taking it. Now everynow and then i get the same pinching feeling in my knees... doesn't last as long, but inside knee, almost under the cap. and all these places are like pressure points in that i can take my finger and press on the exact spot! I also experience muscle spasms in my back everytime i lay down for more than 3 hrs, which of course is at night when i try to sleep. mostly on my right side just under my shoulder and both sides of lower back. I'm sick of being told this is "normal". Is it normal that a person could wake up one day and be in so much pain they can't walk.... pain for seemingly no reason, just dissapears for seemingly no reason. How do i go about talking to my Dr. about this without sounding like someone who just researched the crap outta this and is paranoid?

Hi, Cassmaster, and welcome!  I'm so glad you found us and joined in.  I get that pain in the butt and it would come and go.  Recently it came and set up residency.     There are some hip exercises that I do that have helped this quite a bit.  You might want to try that. 

 

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=24&m=2309717 

 

We do have aches and pains all over our bodies with fibro.  It's very frustrating but once you realize what really is going on, you can relax some and the stress and worry should subside.  This, in turn will help with your pain because stress causes us more pain.  We also have problems with sleep.  It's hard for us to get in the REM sleep so you are not alone there, either.

 

Be sure to read Fibro 101...the second thread on the forum.  There are links to good info about fibro and you will learn a lot there.  Good starting links are called Symptoms, What Else Could It Be, and A Thorough Explanation of Fibromyalgia.  You just might see yourself there. 

 

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 

 

 

thank you guys so much for the warm welcomes!!! i have checked out the other forums plus countless other web sites on this...the kicker was seeing diagrams of the "trigger" points and how spot on those were. I have learned that my grandma suffers from fibromyalgia as well and my mom has MS.

Odd that u say epidural site cause when this first started happening i thought it was maybe an epidural gone bad!

On the plus side I did do my workouts yesterday and worked a full 8 hr shift today (which is spent on my feet) and i am currently pain free! But that doesn't mean that if i bend over to pick something up it won't hurt after that which is just messed! But glad i found ppl to talk to about this, cause I feel like all my friends think of this as an "old" person disease, which is untrue! I was 25 when this started, and that's not old at all. Besides, nobody wants to hear someone talk about how much pain they are in all the time. It's funny that the only ppl at work who take it seriously are the older ones who are willing to bend over backwards for me when I can't.