tired of hurting

[Nolee65]

hi,

I have pain in several areas of my body. Feet up to my neck. This started in my hips at around 24/25, then my feet, hands, shoulders, and now in the elbow and knees. It feels a lot like severe muscle lactid acid build up but no activity to make sense of it when it flares.  I always associated  the areas that hurt to some explanation, but over the years it seems to have rhyme to weather.  When my hands started, I was mid 30's and nowat 42, they have remained inflamed for at least the last year. The swelling seems to remain, but the pain episodes are more periodic. I have of lately felt these episodes flare either including a couple of areas (usually shoulders, hands are more episodic) or adding a few (such as feet, wrist, hips) or all the above mentioned.  Today it is all areas that hurt and warmth brings comfort.  I knowwearing mittens in the summer may look silly, but it feels good and brings relief to some degree.
I can't say it is joints that hurt. It is muscle more.  not nessesarily tendond, as in thehands to type is not a trigger fpr flare up,but to work thehands, feet, per say is.  If I do gardening, I have a terrible time to stand back up in upright position, as hips hurt and i walk trying to get strightened, looking like an old jewish man...no predjudice intended...
family notes i rub my hands, feet, thighs, and arms between shoulder/elbow/wrist the most...nofocus on joints but more on fleshy parts...  

Any ideas?  or even questions?    

[jmbirds]

i was in fla for 2 mos felt like a teenager came home in march i'm 43 and i feel like an old lady , myofacial pain  fibro myalgia? artheritis  a wacky thyroid  and now they said my VIT D 3 was  dangerously low that is the SUN vitamin we need i cna't be in the sun it makes me sick so not sure but i'm on 50000 units of VIT D i have to take it 1 pill per wk for 1 month and retest, also i am on thyroid to put my thyroid to sleep its normal functionin but i have HYPO thyroid symptoms so i'm feeling better also taking soma 350 mg alt days and water therapy and massage and chiro and i'm feeling more human,

[txsilver]

Sorry to read you are in such pain and for so long.  Have you been to a rheumatologist?  If not, it sounds like you are past due for an appointment.  If so, what tests have been run and do you have your ba results?
I had some similar symptoms.  I was diagnosed with fibro but that just did not seem correct to me so I changed doctors.  Low and behold, I have rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.  These diseases can affect more than just joints.  

[Cindee56]

I have a lot of similar symptoms.  Sounds like it could be fibromyalgia.   Could also be rheumatoid arthritis.  I have a problem with my knees also.  I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my knees and fibromyalgia.  I get a lot of the pain and swelling in my hands and fingers, wrists also.  My back and neck hurt a lot.

I went to two different rheumatologists, and was given some help, but not anything that really takes the pain and sore feeling away.  I have good days and bad.  Do you have any irritable bowel problems?  I have that along with it.