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Fibromyalgia-like symptoms but suspect may be my thyroid

Symptons of widespread musculoskeletal pain started about two months ago (the weekend of December 29th 200g to be more exact).
Aside from aching joints and muscles I have had other symptoms that based on my own personal research strongly resemble those of fibromyalgia.
But I also understand that these are symptoms that coincide with hypothyroid disorder.
For the same two month period I have experienced right neck and throat pain that radiates to the right chin and ear as well. The anterior right side of neck is sensiive to the touch although the extent of sensitivity varies. At times with swallowing I've felt resistance n the right side of my throat. I've also experienced headaches generated from this pain as well.
On January 17th my TSH levels were tested and came bach normal:
.585 with a ref range of .400-5.000
Perhaps I should give up on the idea that my thyroid could be the source of my symptoms. But considering the date of the test, is it really safe to rule out the possibility?
Is it possible for a person with an apparently normal TSH level to in fact be suffering  from thyroiditis?
Otherwise,  I don't know what to think. I will be seeing a Rheumatologist on Monday but to be honest the doctors I've seen so far have been giving me the run around, trying to placate when I truly sense I have a problem, I don't know if the visit will help give answers.
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172715 tn?1285494490
Most people with fibromyalgia do have hypothyroidism and the blood tests come back as normal.  There's an expensive blood test (don't know name or work-up) that will show true results for fibro patients. Ask the RA doctor about that. Good Luck
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I had a similar situation of arthritis type pain in my body. I am not sure if you have this in addition to your pain in you jaw? I never had jaw pain however.

This started about 14 months after I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I was very achey and ibuprofen wasn't even working. After about 2 months it went away and never returned except for a short achey period a few months ago.

My rheumatologist attributes it to the general autoimmune aspect of Hashimoto's. She said it is typical to have other automimmune type problems crop up with thyroid as well. Do you have Hashimoto? It is very frustrating I know and I empathize with what you are going through.

My doc said if my problems continued we could at some point look at Plaquenil which is used in arthritis, etc. to fight the autoimmune component. I just continue to go to the rheumatologist, but continue to have random things crop up, i.e. Negative ANA, Uric acid high, positive C-reactive protein. So these are monitored to make sure they don't get worse. Find a good rheumatologist though. The first one I didn't feel great about so got another recommendation and I love my new doc.  

Good luck.

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97953 tn?1440865392
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The TSH of 0.585 is very normal making it unlikely that the symptoms are due to thyroid.  To more thoroughly exhaust the thyroid eval, you could ask the rheumatologist to test thyroid antibodies -- they often do that anyway -- and to repeat TSH to confirm.  Even with positive antibodies, would typically be reluctant to treat a TSH that is already in the low-normal range.
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