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Could this be Fibromyalgia?

I am a 30 year old female, married with 4 kids. I have had so many health problems lately, and so many diagnosis, that I am starting to wonder if it is something else? I feel like there is no way I have all these things wrong with me! That and the treatments never seem to work. Here are my problems. Migraines-I get headaches almost on a daily basis. Half of the time they turn into full blown migraines. I am on a medicine to help prevent them, that seems to work only part of the time. I also have Imitrex to take just in case. I have a lot of joint pain. It started in my hips. I was told I have bursitis because it gets so bad I can barely walk sometimes. I have had cortisone injections to help with it. Those work for a short time only. My joint pain has now moved to my knees, ankles and shoulders. My psychiatrist thinks I have Restless Leg Syndrome, so I am on Requip for that. It doesn't work anymore after being on it for less then 3 months. I was up all night last night with knee, hip, ankle, shoulder and even neck pain. I was tossing and turning in pain even after taking the Requip and an over the counter sleep aid. Even before the leg problem started, I had really bad insomnia. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, ADD etc. The only one I believe I have is ADD and the medicine I am on really helps me. I have a lot of abdominal pain. I have had ovarian cysts and kidney stones in the past. Most of the time there is no diagnosis though. I have had a lot of stomach problems, diarrhea followed by constipation. I had a colonoscopy done and they could find nothing but inflammation from all the Ibuprofen I take for all my pain. I am also being treated for Endometriosis for my lower stomach pain. They don't know for sure if that is what I have, but that is what I am being treated for. I get a Lupron shot every month. I still get pain on the lower right and left sides of my abdomen. Although I don't tell my doctor because I don't want to frustrate her. I don't know if I remembered everything or not? Any advice from anyone familiar with this disease would be welcome. I am sick of doctors and all this medicine!
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The hand pain sounds like fibromyalgia.  

Celiac disease can cause a cascade of autoimmune diseases, so you might want to get tested for that with the blood tests.  If you have that, it's kind of good because completely stopping gluten should turn around all your other problems.  

I will send a link about the cause of fibromyalgia, which they just discovered.  
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I forgot to mention my newest symptom. I have been having the worst pinched nerve feeling in my right wrist when I bend it a certain way. My thumb on that same hand has been going numb on the tip on and off. It hurts to put pressure on my hands, like to get up from the floor, on both hands. And the last few mornings that have been cold, I have woken up with both of my hand being very stiff and painful. My right hand was slightly swollen on the top side. It took a few hours for them to loosen up and work how I wanted them to.
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