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Have suffered with muscle and joint pain for about 7yrs. This has been getting increasingly worse, but have not had any luck with a diagnosis from anyone so far. Have been told it could be something similar to Fibromyalgia, but was told that it probably is not that. Have seen a physio who said that I should be doing more exercise and improve my posture, but this is making me much worse. Not sure what is the best next step, as has left everyone I know totally miffed.

[ssdw1958]

I know how you feel it really stinks that no one is listening to you. I was told that I was having women problems but I knew it wasn’t. I went into the doctors appointment with my readers digest medical book and said I either had lime disease or MS and I was told “Don’t jump to collusions” believe you me I didn’t want either of them and I said how do I find out what I have. I went to have an MRI. From that doctor who was an neurologist and then given a spinal tap. Then I was diagnosed with MS. I then got rid of my primary care doctor because he had no idea what was going on yes I understand that MS is hard to diagnose but he didn’t listen to me

I want to say one thing and that is “ be your own advocate if you know somethings wrong find someone that will listen to you”

You may not even have MS I hope you don’t but you need to find out what’s going on with your body.

Good luck to you!

[Hidden in reply to ssdw1958]

Cheers for the reply. Am going to give acupuncture and reflexology a try. Have heard some good things about them being able to diagnose the cause.

[cyberbarn in reply to Hidden]

A well trained reflexologist will not diagnose, but they are good at helping patients deal with symptoms. Likewise with acupuncture, they can treat an illness or a disease, but they can't diagnose it.

So while I would happily recommend you trying both of them to see if they relieve your symptoms, I wouldn't recommend going to them for a diagnosis.

[jpain]

Have you seem a rheumatologist? Or anyone from Genetics? Any musculoskeletal issues in your family?

[Hidden in reply to jpain]

Have seen a rheumatologist, but seemed to have less of a clue than I did. He was literally asking me to self diagnose and lump it. My family has no history of anything like this.

[jpain in reply to Hidden]

Presume you've had blood tests to check for any inflammatory markers?