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Hi I been suffering from sharp pains everywhere in my body especially my left upper chest and back these pains have been happening for about a year now its making me worry . I have a appointment on the 4th of Dec with an orthopaedic doctor, I'm just wondering if anyone has the same symptoms and if so if there is anyway to help. I get shap stabbing pains every where if I touch my muscles for ages afterwards it hurts, I get a weird sensation in the top of my chest like my muscles are stretching but goes away after about 10 seconds my muscles spasm , and also recently I grown very sensitive to lights . Someone please help me im going out of my mind and can't take the stress of it no more just need some answers . Thank you

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Hi, I have sensitivity to light too, which is part of fibro I believe. Hope you get a diagnosis

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Horgan123 in reply to Camille1

I been having problems for about a year but the sensitivity to the light is new and im also struggling to concentrate and also my memory is starting to be vivid . But I've read that this could all be to do with fibro .. do you suffer with the same symptoms or similar? Any help would be much appreciated.

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Camille1 in reply to Horgan123

Yeah that could be "fibro fog", Google it and you should find quite a bit of info. I sometimes forget words randomly, like the other day I couldn't find the word "carrot" and said "you know, the long orange one". It is frustrating, but very common in fibromyalgia 😔

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Horgan123 in reply to Camille1

Oh really? Its frustrating I was getting seriously worried as my grandad suffers with dementia and scared me to think I was losing my memory . But ill have a read up about it . Do you suffer with the shap pains too I get them in my upper left peck alot but I can feel its in the muscle not underneath by my heart I do tend to get worked up about the repetitive pattern of pain though as most of the time its in or around that same area . Thank you for your help also means alot

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