Sharp stabbing pains for the last 20 years, newer symptoms. Any ideas?

[ocm24]

Hi. Okay, first and foremost I want to say that I avoid going to the doctor as much as possible. In my experience with dealing with doctor's around here, they simply do not care about your symptoms.

When I was ten I began having sharp, stabbing, throbbing pains in my arms and legs. When this would occur, whatever limb the pain was located in would go limp and I was unable to use it until the pain stopped (usually about 2 - 3 minutes). I asked my doctor then about it at one of my routine visits when my grandmother took me and he said it was simply growing pains. Fifteen years later and the pains never went away, only spread. I began to feel it, literally, in my brain. Or, that's where it seems to be. Then it started in my back. I decided to try again to see if a doctor would listen to me and one did. He was very concerned about it and offered a pain medication, which I declined because it wouldn't do any good. The pain would be gone long before the medicine ever had a chance to work. He referred me to another doctor, who saw me for maybe fifteen minutes, told me he was sure there was nothing wrong with  me but said he'd waste my time by doing tests anyway if that's what I wanted. He said again he was sure he wouldn't find anything wrong with me and I just left. He didn't even attempt to check me for anything. I assume he thought I was only after drugs or something? That would be the only reason he'd be so rude, I would hope.

Anyway, now it's five years later and the pain has started in my lower right lung. It mostly still occurs in my skull/brain area and when it happens my neck suddenly gets very weak and it's hard to hold my head up. Feeling it in my arms or legs is pretty rare. In the past five years my memory has become terrible. It isn't a "sometimes I forget" it's an every day occurrence. I often can't remember things that's just been spoken to me. I forget things like my birthday, my age, and entire conversations. I've also began getting cramps in the right side of my neck that sends a burning sensation up along the right side of the back of my head to just short of my forehead.

I've been considering going back to the doctor but I honestly don't feel like dealing with another jerk unless this sounds like something actually serious since I have my husband and children to think about. Any ideas on what this could possibly be?

Info: I'm thirty. I rarely take any kind of medicine for any reason. I drink mostly water. I eat relatively healthy. I am overweight by about 40lbs and this has been for the past 6 years. Before that I was always severely under-weight, and not by choice. I just couldn't gain weight. I have a deficiency that makes my blood too think and has caused me to have eleven miscarriages. I don't take medicine for it.

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[mikec221]

It sounds like fibromyalgia. I recommend you see your doctor or a rheumatologist. Good luck.