Hello, I´m new to this.

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Hello everybody,

I´m new to fibromyalgia, if that is what I´ve got, which I´m not too

sure yet. I guess you all must be quite fed up of explaining

symptoms to people who join in, but please this would help me loads,

if you could give me some information, I´ll try to make it as short

as possible.

Well I´ll introduce myself first, I´m , 33 years old and from

Spain. Last July I started having my first symptoms, I was feeling

really tired, my neck and shoulders were killing me, I could hardly

sleep at because of the pain on my neck and shoulders, I felt itchy

all over and felt like a burning sensation all over, my left arm

would swell and get rock hard and eventually it went back to its

normal stage. After almost one year from this, I still have a fairly

stiff neck and shoulders but not half as much as before, I strecth

daily in order to loosen up my muscles. Other symptoms are for

example my jaw, its quite stiff and it cracks when I open and close

my mouth, the feeling is like if I´d been laughing for hours and my

jaw aches from the exercise. Other symptoms for example, one day

suddenly my ankle hurts, like if I´d sprained it, but I haven´t

really, I can´t hardly walk with that foot, I´ll put a bandage on it

and after two days, the pain is gone like if nothing, this can also

happen with my wrist. It just varies from day to day, my legs are

another problem, if I walk to much or do any kind of exercise like

climbing stairs, my legs feel really heavy like if I´d run a

marathon, but then again this feeling might dissapear the following

days. My tongue is another problem, sometimes it feels like if its

pulling from the back of my throat its a strange sensation like if it

gets tired if I talk for a while, or the feeling that its swollen or

slow in reacting, I find it a bit hard to explain all this symptoms.

Generally the pains I have are usually related to elbows, ankles,

wrists, neck and shoulders, jaw. I don´t think I have cronic

fibromialgia, I do have the tender points they talk about and other

symptoms like headaches, sometimes I feel clouded or foggy and I find

it hard to go to sleep at night times, specially when I wake up two

or three times to go to the toilet, apart from this I have premature

menopause.

sorry to go for so long, but I would really appreciate some advice or

answers to my symptoms, next time I won´t ramble so much.

Thanks,