Please help, at the beginning of the year
I was a very healthy 39 year old, planning
to run the las vegas marathon ( with much
training of course), beginning in may i
developed a stomache virus, which
progressed into 2 months of nausea and
vomitting intermittently, that turned into
bronchitis for 6 weeks and currently
presents as such; 7 weeks of headaches,
nausea, excessive fatigue, joint pain,
muscle pain, even severe skin sensitivity
to where even showering hurts sometimes. i
have hot flashes that last weeks, and it
seems that almost daily my symptoms
change. the doctors agree that it is an
autoimmune disorder but do not know what
and seem to be okay giving me steroids and
pain meds to treat the symptoms but do not
seem involved in finding/treating the
cause. does this sound familiar to
anyone?
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Sandra24
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Joint Pain Posted: 09-17-07 06:49am
I am not a doctor so I cannot say what it
is you have , I presume all your blood
work came back normal.
A lot of immune disorders have similar
symptoms, however most of what you
describe appears to fit the bill for
fibromyalgia.
They say fibro can be triggered by a virus
( mine was) joint pain, skin hyper
sensitive ( clothes sometimes hurt) ,
unable to control body temperature, pain
pain and more pain that travels around
your body, it can be a dull ache, sharp
shooting pains, deep burning pain, every
type of pain imaginable..fatigue and
headaches.
If you Google Fibromyalgia you will see
that diagnosis is made mainly by the
presence of tender points. Using the chart
test these areas on your body. When
pressed these points will burn and hurt
for a while after pressing the area. If
you have no pain in 11 of the 18 points
then that should rule out fibro.
Diagnosis of fibro often takes years.
Keep going back to your doctor, ask for a
referral to a rheumatologist and then
hopefully they can diagnose you. As I said
previously, immune disorders all have
overlapping symptoms make the doctors
figure it out for you. I know your
frustration.
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CarolDiane
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Posted: 03-16-08 06:56am
Yes, you can have auto-immune desease and
still have a normal white count. But, if
you get sick with anything cold
etc......it hits us worse because we don't
have the immuity to fight it off. Then
your white blood count can go up to over
27,000 like mine did with double
pneumonia. You must be careful to not be
around people you know are sick or may be
getting sick. We can fight it off and the
common cold attacks us so much worse. I
was so bad at one time, I was actually
agroaphobic. Never left the house and had
a case of Lysol spray in every room and
would use it three to four times a day.
You talk about having a phobia. Whoa!
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