is this finally my diagnosis?

[platypus12]

Hello. I am totally new here as I stumbled across this group out of desperate internet searches. I have had so many unexplained health issues over the last few years. My GP has been totally dismissive of them and I don’t really know what to do.

It all started with acute groin pains and then the pain started moving about, finally reaching my teeth. Then, I had a bad bout of dizzy spells and vertigo (diagnosed as BBPV) and now my ears are constantly blocked and in pain. I keep breaking my teeth and lately, I have had excruciating neck pains, as if I have bricks pressing on the back on my neck. It is making my sleep difficult and giving me constant headaches and I find it really difficult to cope with it all. It impacts my quality of life and relationship. I find it really embarrassing that I je having more and more health issues all the time.

I have been reading a lot of your posts and so many of them resonate with what I am experiencing.

Are my symptoms typical of fibromyalgia and if so, how do I convince my GP to do something about it?

Thank you for reading.

[Hazel_Angelstar Administrator FMA UK Staff]

Hi and a warm welcome to our community. Here you will find information support friendship and laughter too. You will find information on fibromyalgia at our main website fmauk.org

While widespread/chronic symptoms are one of the main fibromyalgia symptoms (together with fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and cognitive dysfunction) we are not medically qualified to say whether this is what is causing your symptoms. A diagnosis should only be made, once all other potential conditions have been ruled out.

[YASMINTINA FMA UK Volunteer]

Go see your GP again , list what is going on and roughly when everything became worse , don’t be fobbed off but if you really feel your hitting a brick wall seek out another surgery, we need help and advice so we can live life as comfortably as we can xx

[Treewade]

Write a list of whats wrong book a double appointment and take the list ask for a referal to rhumatology thing is fibro has so many symptoms of a lot of other illnesses and until these are ruled out they shouldnt diagnose fibro as some of them are a lot more servere so bloods rhumatologist yet more bloods took ten years for me to get my diagnosis some its taken longer some a lot less good luck and remember you can have more than one condition even after diagnosis if it is fibro xxxxxxxxx hope you get sorted quickly xxxxxwarm hugs xxxxxxxx