Help bad flare or what is going on?

Hi, Keepsmile, and welcome! I can't tell you of you have fibro because there are other illnesses that have many of the same symptoms. It would be good to see a board certified rheumatologist. They should run you through a myriad of tests to rule out other illnesses that have many of the same symptoms...things like Lyme disease and lupus. There is no good test for fibro so this has to be done before a diagnosis is given.

But I will say you could very well have fibro. 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 if you think this is what is going on with you.

If you do have fibro, you can have a full and enjoyable life in spite of this illness once you find what helps you get in control of your pain. It's a trial and error process but you will get lots of ideas on this forum...not to mention support. We do really care about each other here.

Let us know what you find out because we do care. 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

They can be related to fibro, if you've been thoroughly checked out and have received a dx'd of fibro, then your symptoms are probably fibro related. You said on the CFS forums and about not knowing flu like symptoms are apart of fibro, but they are. Alot of people that are in the mist of a flare say they have flu type symptoms.

Read the resources, the one about symptoms and you'll see alot of what your saying is listed there. Welcome to the fibro board!!!

I think we need to be really careful not to diagnose each other here, but I can certainly agree with all that's been said above: it DOES sounds pretty typical of fibromyalgia. I think what you're going through, though, is that we all go through when it hits:

--WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE???
--HOW CAN THIS BE SO PAINFUL???
--SURELY THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE WHAT MY LIFE IS LIKE FROM NOW ON???

And on and on.... I is devastating, and it makes us angry and we don't want to accept it, and life isn't fair, and etc. . . . We've all been where you are now, snd I recently had my worst flare yet, and I felt pretty much the way you say you feel. It isn't fair, is it? And it is what it is.

I would certainly get that boil checked out, and as for the rest of your symptoms, you'll gradually get them figured out as well as you can and decide what to do about them. We have this disease that isn't understood by medical science, and it's just a royal pain....and life goes on.

So sorry....and, well, welcome to the club.

Hello and welcome
Yes these new symptoms can be fibro. I have the red hot ear thing as well, only both ears. They will randomly get hot or just one or both. It varies. They also do this if I touch them. Happens various times on a daily basis. Very frustrating and annoying. Drs. See them do it and look at me with that deer in the headlights look. I've had fibro for 15 yrs now and 2 yrs ago the ears jumped on board With bright red hottness.

I can definitely relate to what you're going through. Try not to worry a lot about it. Anxiety only makes things worse.

Keep posting and let us know how you're doing.
Michael

Thanks so much for the help!!! It's comforting to know I'm not crazy. This hot ear thing is crazy!! So I went to the ER last night to have the boil looked at because a nurse friend of mine who is a infectious disease specialist thinks it might be MRSA and that I might even be colonized with it. So the DR took a needle drawn culture and said he was almost positive it is MRSA. Which is a type of staph infection. In fact he said that most times people have these types of things they are MRSA. I told him I wanted the nares culture to see if I had it colonized (I am at a nursing home quite regularly)
He didn't want to do it at first but then he did. I didn't want to start on anabiotic's and have to wait two weeks after they're done to have the nares culture done. Plus I'm going to my regular doctor on Tuesday so I wanted to make sure that we have the results. I was telling him I felt like my neck had swollen glands and when he was examining me he did say one Side was slightly enlarged. When he then was examining the lymph nodes in my groin area --which were not enlarged --I could barely stand the excruciating pain from him pushing on them. He acted like it was the most normal thing in the world! But hello??? Is that okay? I mean I did tell him I had fibro, but most ER Drs are not that familiar with it and he was not at all alarmed that I was jumping off the table in pain as he was feeling my lymph nodes!! Fibro again? And I have just never experienced that bad of a flare? All regular blood labs came back ok. So now I have this super bug antibiotic which will probably throw off my syste m in another horrible way. He did rx probiotics too so hopefully that will help somewhat.