DL45
08-03-20, 09:24
Morning
Around 3 years or so ago, my GP said he thought all the little aches and pains I had complained about were down to fibromyalgia, this was after CT torso to pelvis with contrast. I was having a real concern about Pancreatic cancer at the time . He said the CT came back with no causes for concern. He prescribed me - I can't remember exactly what, I'm sorry, but if I recall correctly a medicine that can be used for anxiety, mental health issues, but which also reduces pain. I did start them but I couldn't bear the spaced out feeling that I developed with them so I stopped.
At the time I had talked to him about increasing discomfort and stiffness in the back of my left ribs, sometimes right ribs, from just standing, for example chopping veg, amongst other things internally to that region. Trying to brush or hoover for example bring the same discomfort to the torso. And eventually that is what he suggested. I did at the time thing it was a fob off and didn't really look into it any further, didn't go back to him because I didn't consider it to be what I considered fibromyalgia to be really like. I had partially slipped a disc in my lower back 16yrs earlier, so have always considered a little bit of lower back stiffness relating to that, and again find that this interferes with housework, walking too far....although I also have a painful hip which impacts that after a while, despite me spending most of my working life on my feet previously.
Anyhow, rewind to now. I do a 4hr shift in a pub once a week, and I am kept going 90% of the time. I have always, by the end of the shift, felt as if my entire torso, top to bottom, the ribs all around and down the sides, and my internal organs, are on fire, stiff and painful. Taking paracetamol before hand doesn't help. I literally crawl up the stairs into bed and can take a couple of hours before it has worn off enough for me to be able to move around, turn over. In the morning I feel like I have had a punching, bit stiff and bruised but nothing compared to how it feels the night before.
Is this possibly suggestive of fibromyalgia? Was he right? I never experienced this in anything else that I do, other than getting that stiffness / tightness stood still chopping, or ironing etc. I do tend to put all aches to legs, knees etc down to being overweight.
Thank you for reading, and any insight you can give me.
Around 3 years or so ago, my GP said he thought all the little aches and pains I had complained about were down to fibromyalgia, this was after CT torso to pelvis with contrast. I was having a real concern about Pancreatic cancer at the time . He said the CT came back with no causes for concern. He prescribed me - I can't remember exactly what, I'm sorry, but if I recall correctly a medicine that can be used for anxiety, mental health issues, but which also reduces pain. I did start them but I couldn't bear the spaced out feeling that I developed with them so I stopped.
At the time I had talked to him about increasing discomfort and stiffness in the back of my left ribs, sometimes right ribs, from just standing, for example chopping veg, amongst other things internally to that region. Trying to brush or hoover for example bring the same discomfort to the torso. And eventually that is what he suggested. I did at the time thing it was a fob off and didn't really look into it any further, didn't go back to him because I didn't consider it to be what I considered fibromyalgia to be really like. I had partially slipped a disc in my lower back 16yrs earlier, so have always considered a little bit of lower back stiffness relating to that, and again find that this interferes with housework, walking too far....although I also have a painful hip which impacts that after a while, despite me spending most of my working life on my feet previously.
Anyhow, rewind to now. I do a 4hr shift in a pub once a week, and I am kept going 90% of the time. I have always, by the end of the shift, felt as if my entire torso, top to bottom, the ribs all around and down the sides, and my internal organs, are on fire, stiff and painful. Taking paracetamol before hand doesn't help. I literally crawl up the stairs into bed and can take a couple of hours before it has worn off enough for me to be able to move around, turn over. In the morning I feel like I have had a punching, bit stiff and bruised but nothing compared to how it feels the night before.
Is this possibly suggestive of fibromyalgia? Was he right? I never experienced this in anything else that I do, other than getting that stiffness / tightness stood still chopping, or ironing etc. I do tend to put all aches to legs, knees etc down to being overweight.
Thank you for reading, and any insight you can give me.