Fibromyalgia? Do I have it?

Hi everyone,

I'm Syncere. For almost the last 12 months I've been sick off & on. Starting back last November 2012 I could only work 2 weeks & the same in December. In January 2013 I only worked one day & it's a ongoing thing! I'm constantly sick! Most recently like a month or so ago I was admitted to the hospital with heart attack symptoms but they found no trace. I came there with a numb left arm that was hurting & still.does to this day even while typing now. My chest was hurting & still is now on the left side mostly but sometimes it spreads to the right & my neck, back & legs. Even my hands.

Recently I've been getting stiff. When I wake up it's so hard to move. And right now my left ankle, thigh, legs & whole leg is stiff. But when I try to stretch it it hurts badly. I just did blood work with my primary physician Monday & so far I've found out I'm vitamin D 3 deficient. I'm only 34 & my life seems so crazy. I can only move around a few minutes & then I'm panicking because I'm sweating & can barely breathe & must sit down. I now get dizzy alot, feel like I'm having heart attacks every night when getting to sleep & just want to know what's wrong with me... Even noise now seems to cause pain! And I may get 3 or 4 hours of sleep per night if I'm lucky! PLEASE HELP!!!

I'm not swollen just in pain. And no ma'am they haven't checked me for that. When he first brought up doing blood work he said he wanted to test me to see if I have sickle cell anemia & fibromyalgia because my mom has both :( And so far I'm on tramadol, asprin, vitamin d 3 2000 units, mirtazapine & another strong pain killer for when pain is really extreme!

Welcome syncere! Your symtoms you listed do fall under the fibromyalgia symptoms. You have to be careful on self diagnoses becauses fibro symtoms are very similiar to other diagnoses. The best way is go see a board certified rheumatologist who works with fibro patients. Many of the Dr's still don't want to believe in fibromyalgia.

Since your mom has it, I bet you are kind of familiar about it. Try to educate yourself on fibro. Reading post here might also help you figure out your problems. Let us know if you go see a Dr. For a diagnoses. I would hate for you to get a fibro diagnoses. But this would be the place to learn and get great support.

Thanks to you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to comment & give me much needed advice. Just last month they tested me for cancer but it since has been ruled out. But even now I'm sick yet again. Last week every time I swallowed it felt like something was stabbing me between my shoulder blades in my back & it really hurt like heck :(

Then the week after I awake coughing violently & a sharp pain was in my ribs. A pain that I've never experienced before in my life. And every single time I sneezed or coughed I felt the stabbing pain in my ribs on the lower left side of them...

And I tried doing light exercise but it didn't last long. Even when I try to cook dinner for my family I get dizzy to the point of being hard to breathe & my arms, knees & longs are hurting. And when I shower almost every time I can't catch my breath well.. I barely sleep & must use the rest room a couple times almost every hour. And I'm always tired no matter how much sleep I seem to get... And its worst because people feel like I shouldn't be sick so much & I don't wanna be but I have no control & pray I get help or God just heals me (almost in tears)