What can this be???

[ashleyc83]

My M-spike is a little high which for my age (26) is not normal.  After having the painful bone marrow biopsy, it appears that it is not BM cancer.  I have so many symptoms. I only know that I have paraprotein in my blood.  My symptoms started off minimal and then grew greater.  I have off/on internal itching in throat, scalp, neck, stomach, chest, etc.  I have terrible off/on bone pain, swollen and painful lymph nodes (the one in the back of my neck always remain enlarged), muscle pain and twitches, shortness of breath, lung and breathing issues, muscles issues, bones that stick out in my back.  I’ve had a throat infection, sinus infection, gum infection, and now eye infection (eyes are swollen).  I have been having panic attacks since June of last year that among other issues have sent me to the ER 15 times last year.  I have flat rashes on the skin that have been diagnosed as being tinea versicolor.  I have had 3 MRI’s, 2 CT Scans, and several x-rays.  Nothing has been found yet, and I always have feelings that I am about to die.  It is really scary.  All of a sudden I went from perfectly healthy with a great immune system to having complex health problems.  
My greatest worry now is that for about a month I have started having this electrical sensation that spreads throughout my body.  I found out that I am anemic, but now I am having these cold feelings inside of my body with prickly/electric sensations.  I think that it may be neurological, but last year I saw a neurologist who ran test (MRI, Nerve test) that came back fine.   The dr's can't find anything so now the Hema dr is saying that it may be Fibro.  I have no children, been pregnant 2x that resulted in MC, now just found out that I am pregant again.  But this time I don't feel any of the pregnancy symptoms at possible 4 weeks.  I was in the ER the other day due to vaginal bleeding, which later was diadnosed as a hemorraging cyst.  I have a low density clavarium in my brain. Any help?

[Garth L Nicolson, PhD]

I don't know if this is any help, but patients with your signs/symptoms and a diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome usually have chronic infections that may have caused their problems or increased the severity and number of signs/symptoms.  In other words, we have seen this before but the solution is difficult and takes time.

The approach has been to identify the possible infections and treat them.  Response is usually very slow and treatment can take a long time, because the usual culprits are slow-growing intracellular bacteria that respond very slowly.  The problem is that now that you are PG, the usual antibiotics used to treat such infections are for the most part ruled out due to possible adverse effects on the fetus.  The bad news is that if you have one or more of these infections, the chance of spontaneous abortion is very real.  This may explain the previous MC, because if the fetus becomes infected, the chance of a full-term PG is reduced considerably.

[ashleyc83]

Thank you a great deal.  This does help a lot because it gives me something to go off.  I was/am skeptical about Fibro...but i guess it could be that.  I am a worry wart and I know that I have stressed myself out to know end.  The worry has become greater because after a year, I still have no solid diagnoses.  On first look, my labs are excellent.  But my symptoms do not make me feel like nothing is wrong.  Again, thank you 4 ur help.