Thank you for letting me know im not to young i feel better now. I feel like a freak of nature still. ive had a brain scan thats all because when i first started getting the muscle pain i used to pass out and fit up to ten times a day. The doctors checked me out for epilepsy and i don't have that so i still got no answers again. I'm fine now i haven't passed out since feb this year. I'm seeing my doctor on Wednesday so im going to push harder now for answers i sick of being left in the dark.
I have done the FM tender point test and i have 10 of the points.
I hope your children don't get what you have, you sound to me a very strong person and i want to make sure i am to.
Best Wishes
Diagnosing FM is a diagnosis of exclusion, there is no blood test that diagnoses FM, no MRI/CT Scan, symptoms of FM are similiar to other medical disorders, so once these are excluded FM is left. Do you have the 'tender points' associated with FM? (here is a website that shows where on the body they are if you are unfamiliar : http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/fibromyalgia_diagnosis.html )
Have you ever had an EMG? I don't know much about Chronic Neurogenic Atrophy, but you probably would need a biopsy to confirm that diagnosis and it is more than muscular pain, the muscles actually waste away.
No, you're not too young! When I was 19, I was diagnosed with a chronic neurological disorder. I had to take a leave from school, and I was worried I wasn't going to be able to have a normal life. You learn how to cope, how to listen to your body, and what it takes to get things done. It's unknown whether my condition is genetic, but I decided if I have children, and one of them has the disorder we'll deal with it as it comes, I've been through it and I'll do what I can to get him/her through it too.
Best Wishes.