Posted 7/11/2016 9:24 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry if this is so long but I am not diagnosed yet. Had surgery for an ulcer in April, and having severe pain in my gut and have not returned to work. Started research for that and came across fibro. I feel like I have fibro because of the symptoms I have had over the past 7 years and once started writing it down I come across more and more symptoms that I have that others experience. I have Reynauds and have had that for years, and many of the other symptoms such as IBS, severe pain all over, waking up at night in severe pain all over. I wake up and cannot move because I am in so much pain and my arms are numb and tingling and my shoulders are jut on fore with pain. I have muscle cramps in my legs that my husband has to massage out, my hands and feet cramp up and I have to manually massage to uncramp, it is like they are locked in some monstrous looking way. Muscle pain that will not go away, arms feel like they go numb and/or asleep. I have been depressed for years. I can go on and on about my aches and pains.
I guess what it comes down to and why I am posting this is that I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this. Has anyone felt like they were making their symptoms "fit" into this ugly disease. Or all in their heads? This scares me but at the same time I feel like stupid me for not connecting the dots. I have my appts next week, I feel like I have a great relationship with my docs and been seeing them for years. I am rambling with this and not sure where I am going. I guess I just needed to get it out there to hear someone say I am not crazy and these issues I am having are related to one another.
Thank you for reading.