lpete301
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I have been on a long road to this place. In 2000 I hurt a muscle in my upper back near my shoulder blade. My doc put me on muscle relaxers and pain pills...no help. I was having severe fatigue and some stomach upset...figured it was from over medicating my shoulder with alcohol. I had already been on antidepressants for 2 years since my dad died then my mom got sick and I went into a months treatment for my alcoholism. After treatment my mom died 6 months later and then I found out I was preg with twins very high risk, they were monoamniotic with only a 20% chance of making it. I was tired and my upper back still hurt, but not as fatigued as before. After my twins were born I had anxiety that allowed me to do what I needed to do. When the girls were about 1 year old and out of any danger from health issues I started falling apart and have not been the same since. I stopped eating due to abdominal pain, in and out of doctors trying to find out what was wrong. Started seeing a psych for mood swings and was diagnosed Bi-Polar...Wrong Wrong Wrong. Put on meds for it and messed up my thyriod so bad that had to see endocrinologist for it. Stopped all BP meds and went back on regular anti depressant. Gastro found Spinchter of Oddi dysfunction and fixed that. Also diagnosed IBS. Started eating again in the meantime waiting to find out about abdominal pain and mood swings went away. I was not BP, just needed to eat! All the while my pain and migraines are getting worse and running out of options for relief. My thyroid is under control so why was I so tired still... no answer. When back to work as Dental Assistant after 5 years and my right shoulder put me off work for 8 weeks due to tendonitis and calcium on tendon that had to be fixed surgically. After getting back to work again Sinus and lymph node problems started showing up. Every three weeks I was getting a nasty cold. Lymph nodes in my left breast, chest, neck and face would swell, my IBS would go crazy, Abdom pain worsens, and my joints both shoulders and hands would hurt like crazy, Never had a fever and no blood tests came back abnormal. I have Raynauds in my hands. I had a laproscopy by my gynecologist to try to find cause of abdom pain yet there was nothing there. I finally told my regular doc that we had to look at the whole picture and not just treat things as they show up. At this appoint I was having tendonitis like pain in both shoulders and left hip. He sent me to Rhuem. who ruled out everything he could with blood work...nothing came back positive. So he asked me how I was sleeping. Not well so he put me on Zanaflex with no explanation other than to see if I could get some rest on this. No comment about Fibro, just come back in a month and let me know how your doing. I called him last week, 1 week into zanflex med and asked him if he ruled out Fibro...he said "your on (such and such) medication. That is for fibromyalgia. I need a doc who will talk to me and tell me what he is thinking. He has not checked for the "points", and dont know if he even thinks I have fibro, but it fits. So here I am. I know I left alot out of my story, but I didnt want to take up the whole memory on the website for it. Linda |
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! My sister and I were dx with CFS (beleive me, it's not all about the fatigue) and she had such swollen lymph nodes her face would look swollen. Later in the years though she discovered she had thyroid problems and diabetes also. The lymph nodes doesn't remind me of fibro and that could be a seperate case aside from fibro. Do you like your doctor? Do you feel he's doing his all for you?
